The Quarterly Review, Volume 5William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1811 |
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... learned nature . Yet this remark , as even our present number will sufficiently evince , is not without exceptions ; and certainly , a very respectable one now lies before us . The classical acquirements of M. Cla- vier have , it seems ...
... learned nature . Yet this remark , as even our present number will sufficiently evince , is not without exceptions ; and certainly , a very respectable one now lies before us . The classical acquirements of M. Cla- vier have , it seems ...
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... this proportion has been disputed ; but the error charged on it is not such as would materially affect it in practice . According to a learned living chronologer , Dr. 1811. Clavier - Histoire des premiers Temps de la Grèce .
... this proportion has been disputed ; but the error charged on it is not such as would materially affect it in practice . According to a learned living chronologer , Dr. 1811. Clavier - Histoire des premiers Temps de la Grèce .
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... learned living chronologer , Dr. Hales , the average length of reigns is about 223 years ; an amount not very discrepant from the standard assigned by Newton , though we could in our turn object to some of the data from which this cor ...
... learned living chronologer , Dr. Hales , the average length of reigns is about 223 years ; an amount not very discrepant from the standard assigned by Newton , though we could in our turn object to some of the data from which this cor ...
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... learned than agreeable ; for the cloven foot of the chro- nologer peeps out from time to time throughout . Nor is the au- thor very studious of the decorations of style , or of descriptive ex- cellence ; and the truth is , that figures ...
... learned than agreeable ; for the cloven foot of the chro- nologer peeps out from time to time throughout . Nor is the au- thor very studious of the decorations of style , or of descriptive ex- cellence ; and the truth is , that figures ...
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... learned and ingenious countryman , Mr. Mitford , who , composing the greater part of his history of Greece , as we believe , at a time when the enormities of the French revolution had in- spired most moderate men with a deep horror of ...
... learned and ingenious countryman , Mr. Mitford , who , composing the greater part of his history of Greece , as we believe , at a time when the enormities of the French revolution had in- spired most moderate men with a deep horror of ...
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