Edinburgh Magazine: Or Literary Miscellany, Volumes 14-15J. Sibbald, Parliament-Square, 1800 - Books and bookselling |
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... Land , 50 -The Cardinal de Roban , his Arreft , and the celebrated Af- Character and prefent Condition of the Tufcans , 52 fair of the Necklace , 31 Curious Extracts from Strutt's View of the Drefs , & c . of the People of England ...
... Land , 50 -The Cardinal de Roban , his Arreft , and the celebrated Af- Character and prefent Condition of the Tufcans , 52 fair of the Necklace , 31 Curious Extracts from Strutt's View of the Drefs , & c . of the People of England ...
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... land which he occupied to greater advantage than the finall farmer . Unfortunately , experience , that never failing touchftone to truth , hath convinced us how much we were in the wrong . As the prefent period is not the moment to ...
... land which he occupied to greater advantage than the finall farmer . Unfortunately , experience , that never failing touchftone to truth , hath convinced us how much we were in the wrong . As the prefent period is not the moment to ...
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... land , and the doubly extravagant manner in which they are kept . In the first place , the high price of horfes of late years , has encouraged the monopolizers of many of our fuperior lands to occupy them in breeding and rearing these ...
... land , and the doubly extravagant manner in which they are kept . In the first place , the high price of horfes of late years , has encouraged the monopolizers of many of our fuperior lands to occupy them in breeding and rearing these ...
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... land of the Blacks , or the Land of Slaves . Along the coaft , the foil is of very unequal qulity . From Cape Blanco to the river Gam- bia , it is fandy , with a large mixture of broken fhells , and in many places were discovered in the ...
... land of the Blacks , or the Land of Slaves . Along the coaft , the foil is of very unequal qulity . From Cape Blanco to the river Gam- bia , it is fandy , with a large mixture of broken fhells , and in many places were discovered in the ...
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... lands at a town , under the pretext of friendship . He makes a fpeech to the chiefs and the inhabitants , expatiates on the fhameful injuftice of former traders , and declares that he intends to trade fairly with them as friends and ...
... lands at a town , under the pretext of friendship . He makes a fpeech to the chiefs and the inhabitants , expatiates on the fhameful injuftice of former traders , and declares that he intends to trade fairly with them as friends and ...
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