The British Review, and London Critical Journal, Том 5Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813 |
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... Period . By John Turnbull V. The World before the Flood , a Poem , in ten Cantos , with other occasional Pieces . By James Mont- gomery , Author of the Wanderer of Switzerland , the West Indies , & c . VI . The Advantages of ...
... Period . By John Turnbull V. The World before the Flood , a Poem , in ten Cantos , with other occasional Pieces . By James Mont- gomery , Author of the Wanderer of Switzerland , the West Indies , & c . VI . The Advantages of ...
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... period of our history . Public and private wealth are , without doubt , the very life- blood of our political existence ; and the long contest in which we have successfully encountered with dauntless front and un- wearied vigour the ...
... period of our history . Public and private wealth are , without doubt , the very life- blood of our political existence ; and the long contest in which we have successfully encountered with dauntless front and un- wearied vigour the ...
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... period , hardly any of the ex- traordinary checks to the increase of mankind have existed in this country . It has suffered very little from civil war ; not at all from pestilence ; and during many years , the influx of inhabit- ants ...
... period , hardly any of the ex- traordinary checks to the increase of mankind have existed in this country . It has suffered very little from civil war ; not at all from pestilence ; and during many years , the influx of inhabit- ants ...
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... period , it appears from the re- turns of the parochial registers , confirmed by abundant other proof , that the increase of inhabitants was chiefly agricultural , producing , till after the middle of the last century , an increas- ing ...
... period , it appears from the re- turns of the parochial registers , confirmed by abundant other proof , that the increase of inhabitants was chiefly agricultural , producing , till after the middle of the last century , an increas- ing ...
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... period of sufficient length to decide the question , will be very nearly in an exact proportion to the consumption , where the population is stationary as to numbers , and the habits of life are little varied by moral or political ...
... period of sufficient length to decide the question , will be very nearly in an exact proportion to the consumption , where the population is stationary as to numbers , and the habits of life are little varied by moral or political ...
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