The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volumen41Tobias Smollett W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1776 Each number includes a classified "Monthly catalogue." |
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... Object of the Congress in America , Common Senfe and Plain Truth , The Conftitutional Advocate , Reflections on the American Contest , Letter to the Right Hon . the Earl of Shelburne , Dr. Smith's Oration in Memory of General Montgomery ...
... Object of the Congress in America , Common Senfe and Plain Truth , The Conftitutional Advocate , Reflections on the American Contest , Letter to the Right Hon . the Earl of Shelburne , Dr. Smith's Oration in Memory of General Montgomery ...
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... objects of their own private attachment , in- confiderately launch into fuperfluous and trifling details , which ought never to be admitted within the limits of historical nar- rative . The reverend author of the hiftory under ...
... objects of their own private attachment , in- confiderately launch into fuperfluous and trifling details , which ought never to be admitted within the limits of historical nar- rative . The reverend author of the hiftory under ...
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... objects about which natural philofophy is con- verfant , which terminate in gaining a knowledge of the visible fyftem of nature ; and that it behoves us to confider whether the great Author of Nature has not afforded us fufficient data ...
... objects about which natural philofophy is con- verfant , which terminate in gaining a knowledge of the visible fyftem of nature ; and that it behoves us to confider whether the great Author of Nature has not afforded us fufficient data ...
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... objects which muft greatly retard the progrefs of an accurate and faithful hiftorian . If he pursues the detail in ftri & t chro- nological order , he will fometimes be embarraffed by the mul- tiplicity of contemporary incidents , and ...
... objects which muft greatly retard the progrefs of an accurate and faithful hiftorian . If he pursues the detail in ftri & t chro- nological order , he will fometimes be embarraffed by the mul- tiplicity of contemporary incidents , and ...
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... object not to it . • But his alliance with the earl of Britany cannot be fo eas fily admitted . Alan furnamed le Roux , a younger fon of Eudo , earl of Britany , was one of the gallant adventurers who came over with William the ...
... object not to it . • But his alliance with the earl of Britany cannot be fo eas fily admitted . Alan furnamed le Roux , a younger fon of Eudo , earl of Britany , was one of the gallant adventurers who came over with William the ...
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