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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... nearly resembles what we might expect to fall from the learned judge in his professional capacity . Let it be noted , at the same time , that this misfortune was unavoidable , or , at least , avoidable no otherwise than by an avoidance ...
... nearly resembles what we might expect to fall from the learned judge in his professional capacity . Let it be noted , at the same time , that this misfortune was unavoidable , or , at least , avoidable no otherwise than by an avoidance ...
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... nearly 767 years ; from all which pre- mises it follows that the epoch of the capture of Troy was about the year before our æra ( 240 + 767 + 80 = ) 1087 ; in almost ex act consonance with the result of the former calculation . This ...
... nearly 767 years ; from all which pre- mises it follows that the epoch of the capture of Troy was about the year before our æra ( 240 + 767 + 80 = ) 1087 ; in almost ex act consonance with the result of the former calculation . This ...
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... nearly 2 to 3 . Thus fortified by historic experience , the Newtonians ask the question , Why a rule of computation which is found to hold with respect to all ascertained time , is to be rejected from the early regal successions of ...
... nearly 2 to 3 . Thus fortified by historic experience , the Newtonians ask the question , Why a rule of computation which is found to hold with respect to all ascertained time , is to be rejected from the early regal successions of ...
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... nearly a tru ism ; for it may readily be conceded , that , so far as any given regal succession has proceeded in the direct line , so far , generally speak → ing , it has been governed by the genealogical rule of three steps to a ...
... nearly a tru ism ; for it may readily be conceded , that , so far as any given regal succession has proceeded in the direct line , so far , generally speak → ing , it has been governed by the genealogical rule of three steps to a ...
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... nearly parallel with that of the Spartan kings of the race of Eurysthenes , of whom sixteen , as we are told , reigned in a direct line . Each case is uncommon , though neither reaches the point of positive improbability . But here is ...
... nearly parallel with that of the Spartan kings of the race of Eurysthenes , of whom sixteen , as we are told , reigned in a direct line . Each case is uncommon , though neither reaches the point of positive improbability . But here is ...
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