The European Magazine, and London Review, Volume 11Philological Society of London, 1787 - English literature |
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... Remarks on Dr. Johnson's Eflay on Epi- taphs Fragments by Leo . No. X. The Critical Club - Two Profound Grecians - 8 9 II 14 15 - 18 A remarkable Anecdote of Mrs. Della Riviere Manley Optimifm : a Dream . By M. Mercier Letter from the ...
... Remarks on Dr. Johnson's Eflay on Epi- taphs Fragments by Leo . No. X. The Critical Club - Two Profound Grecians - 8 9 II 14 15 - 18 A remarkable Anecdote of Mrs. Della Riviere Manley Optimifm : a Dream . By M. Mercier Letter from the ...
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... Remarks on the different Modes of Punishments in thofe Countries . " 8vo . In 1784 , his greatest work appeared ... remark with fome fur- prize , without any power of accounting for it . His works are at this time held in the highest ...
... Remarks on the different Modes of Punishments in thofe Countries . " 8vo . In 1784 , his greatest work appeared ... remark with fome fur- prize , without any power of accounting for it . His works are at this time held in the highest ...
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... remark , -ultima femper Expeétanda dies homini , dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo , fupremaque funera debet . Ver . 135 . Our immortal Gray may , I think , be fometimes faintly traced in the poetry of Thomfon . - His comparifon of Mufic ...
... remark , -ultima femper Expeétanda dies homini , dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo , fupremaque funera debet . Ver . 135 . Our immortal Gray may , I think , be fometimes faintly traced in the poetry of Thomfon . - His comparifon of Mufic ...
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... remarks , on this occasion , into the following or- der on the country telf ; on the an- cient and modern cities of Egypt ; on their public works and the ren ains of art ; on their general manners ; on their religion and peculiar ...
... remarks , on this occasion , into the following or- der on the country telf ; on the an- cient and modern cities of Egypt ; on their public works and the ren ains of art ; on their general manners ; on their religion and peculiar ...
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... remarks with Hs- rodotus , and the more accurate language of Strabo . In the time of Myris , fays Mr. Savary , " eight cubits was fuffi- " cient to overflow it in all its extent . " This , as we have fhewn , is much more than the ...
... remarks with Hs- rodotus , and the more accurate language of Strabo . In the time of Myris , fays Mr. Savary , " eight cubits was fuffi- " cient to overflow it in all its extent . " This , as we have fhewn , is much more than the ...
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