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... Author's chief ftudy has been to fleer between the extremes of fentimental gloom , and the exceffes of uninterefting levity ; he has fome laugh , yet he hopes he has alfo fome leffon ; and fashionable as it has lately been for the wits ...
... Author's chief ftudy has been to fleer between the extremes of fentimental gloom , and the exceffes of uninterefting levity ; he has fome laugh , yet he hopes he has alfo fome leffon ; and fashionable as it has lately been for the wits ...
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... Author has one degree of merit for which he ought to have credit , that he never has the impertinence to take the liberty of naming those principal authors from whom he borrows , or on whom his imitations are a burlesque , as his ...
... Author has one degree of merit for which he ought to have credit , that he never has the impertinence to take the liberty of naming those principal authors from whom he borrows , or on whom his imitations are a burlesque , as his ...
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... Author finds that when the barometer ftands below at 27 inches , the thermo- meter at the same time indicating o in the Author's fcale , ( or 17 ° according to Reaumur's graduation ) the height of the atmosphere , confidering the ...
... Author finds that when the barometer ftands below at 27 inches , the thermo- meter at the same time indicating o in the Author's fcale , ( or 17 ° according to Reaumur's graduation ) the height of the atmosphere , confidering the ...
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PARRYS Attempt to demonftrate RUTTYs Natural History of | 6 |
FELLS Poem on the Times | 20 |
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