The Literary Miscellany: Including Dissertations and Essays on Subjects of Literature, Science, and Morals; Biographical and Historical Sketches; Critical Remarks on Language; with Occasional Reviews ..., Том 2W. Hilliard., 1806 |
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... means of supply , the dif- ficulty of disposing of it afterward , and the implied dissimi- larity of the new world to the old one . The Mosaic histo- ry evidently describes places , as bounded by rivers , still known to be the same ...
... means of supply , the dif- ficulty of disposing of it afterward , and the implied dissimi- larity of the new world to the old one . The Mosaic histo- ry evidently describes places , as bounded by rivers , still known to be the same ...
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... means , used for preserving mankind and other land animals . This account is to be received , as verity itself , unmixed with any effusions of imagination , or any reasonings of the narrator . It would be difficult in any other volume ...
... means , used for preserving mankind and other land animals . This account is to be received , as verity itself , unmixed with any effusions of imagination , or any reasonings of the narrator . It would be difficult in any other volume ...
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... means to rectify two or three little errors , that had es- caped me . In this fragment were mentioned the persecu ... mean time the Marquis d ' Ossun , ambassador from France to Naples , told me , that the king , informed of my mission ...
... means to rectify two or three little errors , that had es- caped me . In this fragment were mentioned the persecu ... mean time the Marquis d ' Ossun , ambassador from France to Naples , told me , that the king , informed of my mission ...
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... means the least . Easy and graceful behavior is hardly to be expected in the lower orders of society . Those , who subsist by contin- ual and severe labor , have but little opportunity for polishing Vol . II . No. I. D their manners . A ...
... means the least . Easy and graceful behavior is hardly to be expected in the lower orders of society . Those , who subsist by contin- ual and severe labor , have but little opportunity for polishing Vol . II . No. I. D their manners . A ...
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... means to gain the same eminence ? These remarks become the more obvious , when we con- sider , that the philosophy of grammar cannot be acquired by a survey only of one language . In order to establish general principles it is necessary ...
... means to gain the same eminence ? These remarks become the more obvious , when we con- sider , that the philosophy of grammar cannot be acquired by a survey only of one language . In order to establish general principles it is necessary ...
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