The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 59R. Griffiths, 1778 - Books |
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Page 25
... spirit of my prefent volume , it is fufficient for me to affert the antiquity of the commons , in oppofition to an opinion of their late rife , which a modern hiftorian , of great reputation , has inculcated , with that hardiness which ...
... spirit of my prefent volume , it is fufficient for me to affert the antiquity of the commons , in oppofition to an opinion of their late rife , which a modern hiftorian , of great reputation , has inculcated , with that hardiness which ...
Page 249
... spirit of wine are furprizing , rendering it phlegmatic to half its quantity .'- Few would collect , from this phrafeology , that the alcali will ac- tually dephlegmate the fpirit , inftead of rendering it phlegmatic . We have not ...
... spirit of wine are furprizing , rendering it phlegmatic to half its quantity .'- Few would collect , from this phrafeology , that the alcali will ac- tually dephlegmate the fpirit , inftead of rendering it phlegmatic . We have not ...
Page 359
... spirit was as much below the dignity of fo good a poet , as it was beneath the wifdom of government to take notice of it . Whenever a writer catches hold of tempo- rary circumstances to affift his mufe , the genius of fuch an au- thor ...
... spirit was as much below the dignity of fo good a poet , as it was beneath the wifdom of government to take notice of it . Whenever a writer catches hold of tempo- rary circumstances to affift his mufe , the genius of fuch an au- thor ...
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