Analectic Magazine, and Naval Chronicle, Том 2James Maxwell, 1813 |
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... less than half of the present work . It begins with a Preliminary Essay of 160 pages ; next are Private Letters to the late Mr. H. S. Woodfall , the publisher of the Public Ad- vertiser , extending through nearly 100 pages ; and these ...
... less than half of the present work . It begins with a Preliminary Essay of 160 pages ; next are Private Letters to the late Mr. H. S. Woodfall , the publisher of the Public Ad- vertiser , extending through nearly 100 pages ; and these ...
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... less than fourteen cotempo- raries , each of whom has been believed , by many persons or by few , to be no other and no less than Junius . And this list does not include either Horne Tooke or Lord Chatham , to each of whom , however ...
... less than fourteen cotempo- raries , each of whom has been believed , by many persons or by few , to be no other and no less than Junius . And this list does not include either Horne Tooke or Lord Chatham , to each of whom , however ...
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... less curiosity than other mortals , if he did not ask ? If we are not to make a supposition so little flattering to our essayist , we may very fairly repeat , as many readers will , the question , why are not whatever were deemed the ...
... less curiosity than other mortals , if he did not ask ? If we are not to make a supposition so little flattering to our essayist , we may very fairly repeat , as many readers will , the question , why are not whatever were deemed the ...
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... less rapid than in later times , because of the flourishing state of the country , whose progress seems scarcely to have sustained any interruption by the civil wars of Charles I. because the virtues of the feudal system survived that ...
... less rapid than in later times , because of the flourishing state of the country , whose progress seems scarcely to have sustained any interruption by the civil wars of Charles I. because the virtues of the feudal system survived that ...
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... less intellect is required ; eyes and fingers are all that are needed . This philosophy , indeed , deals with him as Diogenes did with the cock , in derision of Plato's definition . Pluck the wings of his intellect , strip him of the ...
... less intellect is required ; eyes and fingers are all that are needed . This philosophy , indeed , deals with him as Diogenes did with the cock , in derision of Plato's definition . Pluck the wings of his intellect , strip him of the ...
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