The Critical Review: Or, Annals of LiteratureW. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1808 - English literature |
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... persons only ? We hope that the pur- chasers of his book will be infiuitely more numerous . beg our readers to observe that we have cited this example as one of ill - placed brevity , the consequence , probably , of the writer's having ...
... persons only ? We hope that the pur- chasers of his book will be infiuitely more numerous . beg our readers to observe that we have cited this example as one of ill - placed brevity , the consequence , probably , of the writer's having ...
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... persons inseparably connected together with respect to the changes that their refractive powers undergo , although it sometimes happens that those powers are originally very different in the opposite eyes . These motions enable us to ...
... persons inseparably connected together with respect to the changes that their refractive powers undergo , although it sometimes happens that those powers are originally very different in the opposite eyes . These motions enable us to ...
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... persons who are entrusted with the destinies of an empire , the evil effects may soon be universally deplored . If the importance of the enquiry therefore be estimated by the possible magnitude of its results , there is not one which ...
... persons who are entrusted with the destinies of an empire , the evil effects may soon be universally deplored . If the importance of the enquiry therefore be estimated by the possible magnitude of its results , there is not one which ...
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... persons of fixed incomes and limited annuities from being reduced to a state of famine and despair , which must be the ultimate effect of the present rapid increase of paper and depreciation of money , it is absolutely necessary that we ...
... persons of fixed incomes and limited annuities from being reduced to a state of famine and despair , which must be the ultimate effect of the present rapid increase of paper and depreciation of money , it is absolutely necessary that we ...
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... person of limited income in the community , is principally owing to the more general issue of paper during that , than any former period . A new and artificial circulating medium was invented , which has almost caused the old currency ...
... person of limited income in the community , is principally owing to the more general issue of paper during that , than any former period . A new and artificial circulating medium was invented , which has almost caused the old currency ...
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Page 312 - And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Page 543 - Britain independent of commerce ; or proofs, deduced from an investigation into the true causes of the wealth of nations, that our riches, prosperity, and power are derived from sources inherent in ourselves, and would not be affected, even though our commerce were annihilated.
Page 46 - THROUGH thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds whistle ; Thou, the hall of my fathers, art gone to decay ; In thy once smiling garden, the hemlock and thistle Have choked up the rose which late bloom'd in the way.
Page 252 - By a perpetual monopoly, all the other subjects of the state are taxed very absurdly in two different ways; first, by the high price of goods, which, in the case of a free trade, they could buy much cheaper ; and, secondly, by their total exclusion from a branch of business which it might be both convenient and profitable for many of them to carry on.
Page 119 - Some crouching close were seated, others paced Incessantly around; the latter tribe More numerous, those fewer who beneath The torment lay, but louder in their grief. O'er all the sand fell slowly wafting down 25 Dilated flakes of fire, as flakes of snow On Alpine summit, when the wind is hush'd.
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Page 245 - ... that hydrogen, the alkaline substances, the metals, and certain metallic oxides, are attracted by negatively electrified metallic surfaces, and repelled by positively electrified metallic surfaces; and contrariwise, that oxygen and acid substances are attracted by positively electrified metallic surfaces, and repelled by negatively electrified metallic surfaces; and these attractive and repulsive forces are sufficiently energetic to destroy or suspend the usual operation of elective affinity.
Page 142 - I have no idea of it, even if the head were of much more consequence than I feel it to be. The true post of honour consists in the discharge of those duties, whatever they happen to be, which arise from that situation in which Providence has fixed us, and which we may be assured is the very situation best calculated for virtue and our happiness.
Page 252 - It is merely to enable the company to support the negligence, profusion, and malversation of their own servants, whose disorderly conduct seldom allows the dividend of the company to exceed the ordinary rate of profit in trades which are altogether free, and very frequently makes it fall even a good deal short of that rate.
Page 133 - O tu che mostri per sì bestiai segno odio sovra colui che tu ti mangi, dimmi il perché," diss'io, " per tal convegno, che se tu a ragion di lui ti piangi, sappiendo chi voi siete e la sua pecca, nel mondo suso ancora io te ne cangi se quella con ch'io parlo non si secca.