The Critical Review, Or, Annals of LiteratureW. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1799 |
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... purpose which any book of genealogy can ferve . On attentively perufing the work , we were impreffed with an idea , that an extreme attention to clearness had contributed , by too minute and precife divifions , rather to perplex than to ...
... purpose which any book of genealogy can ferve . On attentively perufing the work , we were impreffed with an idea , that an extreme attention to clearness had contributed , by too minute and precife divifions , rather to perplex than to ...
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... purpose of announcing a tranflation of it by his friend Mr. Good . In one paffage which he has , marked as particularly happy , the peculiar beauty of the original is loft . It is in thofe exquifite lines which relate the facrifice of ...
... purpose of announcing a tranflation of it by his friend Mr. Good . In one paffage which he has , marked as particularly happy , the peculiar beauty of the original is loft . It is in thofe exquifite lines which relate the facrifice of ...
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... purpose of enhancing the luftre of their genius when placed in competition with that of their difciples . They want no fuch injudicious aid , nor does the nega tive praife of avoiding their blemishes conftitute the fole merit Drake's ...
... purpose of enhancing the luftre of their genius when placed in competition with that of their difciples . They want no fuch injudicious aid , nor does the nega tive praife of avoiding their blemishes conftitute the fole merit Drake's ...
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... purpose . They are first fet up every year on St. James's day , the 25th of July , foon after which time they are caught in numbers truly aftonishing , when we reflect that it is a folitary bird , more than two or three being scarcely ...
... purpose . They are first fet up every year on St. James's day , the 25th of July , foon after which time they are caught in numbers truly aftonishing , when we reflect that it is a folitary bird , more than two or three being scarcely ...
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... purpose of thofe in Egypt and In- . dia ; nor is it unreasonable to fuppofe , that the fabulous relations concerning the grot of the Sibyl in Italy , and the purgatory of St. Patrick , were derived from a fimilar practice and motive ...
... purpose of thofe in Egypt and In- . dia ; nor is it unreasonable to fuppofe , that the fabulous relations concerning the grot of the Sibyl in Italy , and the purgatory of St. Patrick , were derived from a fimilar practice and motive ...
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