The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, 70. kötet;1790. kötetTobias Smollett R[ichard]. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-Row, 1790 |
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... Errors of the British Minifter , in the Negotiation with the Court of Spain , 697. - Subjoined Coniments on the Convention with Spain , ibid . Expediency of Revifing the Liturgy and Articles of the Church of Eng- land , by a Confiflent ...
... Errors of the British Minifter , in the Negotiation with the Court of Spain , 697. - Subjoined Coniments on the Convention with Spain , ibid . Expediency of Revifing the Liturgy and Articles of the Church of Eng- land , by a Confiflent ...
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... Errors of the Understanding , ' is a fcep- tical dialogue , in the pure claffical taste . The friends , between whom this converfation is fuppofed to pafs , begin with the fyf- tem of Copernicus , from an accidental hint , which gives ...
... Errors of the Understanding , ' is a fcep- tical dialogue , in the pure claffical taste . The friends , between whom this converfation is fuppofed to pafs , begin with the fyf- tem of Copernicus , from an accidental hint , which gives ...
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... error , this precious difco- very is nothing more than fome newly compofed term , or word , more barbarous than any by ... errors of others . 1 The School of the World ' is a play of three acts , not found in the Berlin edition : it is a ...
... error , this precious difco- very is nothing more than fome newly compofed term , or word , more barbarous than any by ... errors of others . 1 The School of the World ' is a play of three acts , not found in the Berlin edition : it is a ...
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... errors are observ able . The other , the work of Mrs. Helme , is more free and elegant , but lefs exact and minute . In reality , M. Vaillant has indulged himself in fome particular phyfiological obfervations , which a lady could not ...
... errors are observ able . The other , the work of Mrs. Helme , is more free and elegant , but lefs exact and minute . In reality , M. Vaillant has indulged himself in fome particular phyfiological obfervations , which a lady could not ...
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... error of Semiramis , and attempted , without fuccefs , to enter India . Cambyfes was equally unfuccefsful in his attempt to penetrate by land to Ethiopia and Ophir . Darius more wifely fent veffels down the river Indus , which returned ...
... error of Semiramis , and attempted , without fuccefs , to enter India . Cambyfes was equally unfuccefsful in his attempt to penetrate by land to Ethiopia and Ophir . Darius more wifely fent veffels down the river Indus , which returned ...
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