The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 61Tobias Smollett R[ichard]. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-Row, 1786 - Books |
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... because an invifible path is difficult to be found by corporeal beings . They alfo who , preferring me , leave all works for me , and , free from the worship of all others , contemplate and ferve me alone , I prefently raise them up ...
... because an invifible path is difficult to be found by corporeal beings . They alfo who , preferring me , leave all works for me , and , free from the worship of all others , contemplate and ferve me alone , I prefently raise them up ...
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... because I think it calculated to decide the chemical queftion concerning the conftitution of the aerial acid , but because it is a curious phyfiological pro- blem . I know but one fact that has any immediate connection with the folution ...
... because I think it calculated to decide the chemical queftion concerning the conftitution of the aerial acid , but because it is a curious phyfiological pro- blem . I know but one fact that has any immediate connection with the folution ...
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... because his works all bear the very ftamp of nature ; none of his characters being perfect ; the virtuous being painted as capable of vice , and the vicious as guilty of virtue . Perfect characters form , indeed , a fure mark of a ...
... because his works all bear the very ftamp of nature ; none of his characters being perfect ; the virtuous being painted as capable of vice , and the vicious as guilty of virtue . Perfect characters form , indeed , a fure mark of a ...
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... because his envy faw that he was richer dreft , and of far higher rank than himself . ' The remarks on Hume's Hiftory , and the tendency of his other works , are in general juft ; and the conclufion is finished with admirable force and ...
... because his envy faw that he was richer dreft , and of far higher rank than himself . ' The remarks on Hume's Hiftory , and the tendency of his other works , are in general juft ; and the conclufion is finished with admirable force and ...
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... because he again defcends to ri- baldry and impertinence . It is furprising , that an author who poffeffes fome fair pretenfions to fame , fhould debase them with fuch a contemptible alloy . We have freely followed our author , and ...
... because he again defcends to ri- baldry and impertinence . It is furprising , that an author who poffeffes fome fair pretenfions to fame , fhould debase them with fuch a contemptible alloy . We have freely followed our author , and ...
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Page 301 - Then, since this earth affords no joy to me, But to command, to check, to o'erbear such As are of better person than myself, I'll make my heaven — to dream upon the crown ; And, whiles I live, to account this world but hell, Until my mis-shap'd trunk that bears this head, Be round impaled with a glorious crown.
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