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... the Times ; of which I may be permitted to say , -as it was not written by myself -that a more admirable composition , both in matter and style , I never met with . In the October number of the Edinburgh Review , 1851 PREFACE . vii.
... the Times ; of which I may be permitted to say , -as it was not written by myself -that a more admirable composition , both in matter and style , I never met with . In the October number of the Edinburgh Review , 1851 PREFACE . vii.
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With Annotations by Richard Whately Francis Bacon. In the October number of the Edinburgh Review , 1851 ( p . 513 ) , the reviewer , though evidently disposed to regard with some favour a style of dim and mystical sublimity , remarks ...
With Annotations by Richard Whately Francis Bacon. In the October number of the Edinburgh Review , 1851 ( p . 513 ) , the reviewer , though evidently disposed to regard with some favour a style of dim and mystical sublimity , remarks ...
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... Edinburgh Review , ' each generation inherits the conquests made by its predecessors . No mathematician . has to redemonstrate the problems of Euclid ; no physio- logist has to sustain a controversy as to the circulation of the blood ...
... Edinburgh Review , ' each generation inherits the conquests made by its predecessors . No mathematician . has to redemonstrate the problems of Euclid ; no physio- logist has to sustain a controversy as to the circulation of the blood ...
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... Edinburgh Review , and also of an article on this volume , in the North British ( Aug. 1857 , p . 6 ) , with whom I partly agree and partly not . This writer maintains ( 1 ) that all , or nearly all , the divisions that have existed ...
... Edinburgh Review , and also of an article on this volume , in the North British ( Aug. 1857 , p . 6 ) , with whom I partly agree and partly not . This writer maintains ( 1 ) that all , or nearly all , the divisions that have existed ...
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... Edinburgh Review ) , ' ' Reverend and dear sirs , whom I unfeignedly love and respect , it doth not a little grieve my spirit to hear what sad things are reported daily of your tyranny and persecution in New England , as that you fine ...
... Edinburgh Review ) , ' ' Reverend and dear sirs , whom I unfeignedly love and respect , it doth not a little grieve my spirit to hear what sad things are reported daily of your tyranny and persecution in New England , as that you fine ...
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