The British Critic: A New Review, Volume 29F. and C. Rivington, 1807 - English literature |
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... shall certainly not pafs unnoticed fome ingenious ob- fervations ; while we cannot but exprefs our opinion , that feveral remarks would not have been admitted into these vo- lumes , if the editor had been more converfant in the phrafe ...
... shall certainly not pafs unnoticed fome ingenious ob- fervations ; while we cannot but exprefs our opinion , that feveral remarks would not have been admitted into these vo- lumes , if the editor had been more converfant in the phrafe ...
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... Shall be the maws of kites . " " For they will not fuit with Banquo , who had no grave or charnel - houfe affigned to him , ( having been left in a ditch , to find a monument in the maws of kites ; ) but muft refer to Duncan , who , we ...
... Shall be the maws of kites . " " For they will not fuit with Banquo , who had no grave or charnel - houfe affigned to him , ( having been left in a ditch , to find a monument in the maws of kites ; ) but muft refer to Duncan , who , we ...
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... shall not enter into the author's argument , which he pur fues at fome length , that the best mode of defeating the commer- cial hoftility of France , is by adhering ftrictly to the Navigation Laws . On this point we have our doubts ...
... shall not enter into the author's argument , which he pur fues at fome length , that the best mode of defeating the commer- cial hoftility of France , is by adhering ftrictly to the Navigation Laws . On this point we have our doubts ...
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... shall appear . MEDICINE . ART . 24. Admonitory Hints on the Ufe of Sea Bathing . By J. Peake , Surgeon . 8vo . 35 pp . Price 1s . 6d . Rivingtons . 1806 . This author has the merit of having collected into a small com . pafs , all the ...
... shall appear . MEDICINE . ART . 24. Admonitory Hints on the Ufe of Sea Bathing . By J. Peake , Surgeon . 8vo . 35 pp . Price 1s . 6d . Rivingtons . 1806 . This author has the merit of having collected into a small com . pafs , all the ...
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... shall we fay then of thofe , who are perpetually railing against others , and that , because they do not happen to agree with them in every inferior circumstance ? What can we think of the experience of thofe who are ready to exclude ...
... shall we fay then of thofe , who are perpetually railing against others , and that , because they do not happen to agree with them in every inferior circumstance ? What can we think of the experience of thofe who are ready to exclude ...
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