The English Review, Or, An Abstract of English and Foreign Literature, Volume 14J. Murray, 1789 |
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Pagina 42
... refpect , and called it the gospel of our beloved brother Matthew ; by which , or the like words , he would doubtlefs have borne witnefs to the truth of it . But if a queftion fhould arife , not whether St. Matthew had compofed a true ...
... refpect , and called it the gospel of our beloved brother Matthew ; by which , or the like words , he would doubtlefs have borne witnefs to the truth of it . But if a queftion fhould arife , not whether St. Matthew had compofed a true ...
Pagina 69
... refpect liable to equal objection . He fuppofes the increafed gravity of the air to arife from an increased quantity of it , which he attributes chiefly to the procefs of vegetation ; and its diminution to the evolution of phlogifton ...
... refpect liable to equal objection . He fuppofes the increafed gravity of the air to arife from an increased quantity of it , which he attributes chiefly to the procefs of vegetation ; and its diminution to the evolution of phlogifton ...
Pagina 95
... refpect to the origin of our peftilence , I do not he- fitate to affirm , from the fullelt authority of undeniable teftimony , that it first entered this ifland by means of contagion , and was brought from Holland in merchandise ...
... refpect to the origin of our peftilence , I do not he- fitate to affirm , from the fullelt authority of undeniable teftimony , that it first entered this ifland by means of contagion , and was brought from Holland in merchandise ...
Pagina 96
... refpect , to the realities which pafs continually before us . In examining the characters of this wonderful writer , the philofopher is not dif- fecting theatrical monfters , but analyfing the mind of man ; is adding to our fund of ...
... refpect , to the realities which pafs continually before us . In examining the characters of this wonderful writer , the philofopher is not dif- fecting theatrical monfters , but analyfing the mind of man ; is adding to our fund of ...
Pagina 99
... refpect you that I pay no attention to any thing you fay . Yet fuch is Falftaff's reply : Very well , my lord , very well ; rather , an't please you , it is the disease of not listening , the malady of not marking , that I am troubled ...
... refpect you that I pay no attention to any thing you fay . Yet fuch is Falftaff's reply : Very well , my lord , very well ; rather , an't please you , it is the disease of not listening , the malady of not marking , that I am troubled ...
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Pagina 263 - An Account of the principal Lazarettos in Europe ; with various Papers relative to the Plague ! together with further observations on some Foreign Prisons and Hospitals, and additional Remarks on the present state of those in Great Britain and Ireland.
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