The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 75R. Griffiths, 1786 |
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... fmall part of the work , they affume magnitude and importance , when invidiously detached from it . It thus feems as if this moft inftructive author had written with a view rather to amufe the fancy than to inform the understanding ...
... fmall part of the work , they affume magnitude and importance , when invidiously detached from it . It thus feems as if this moft inftructive author had written with a view rather to amufe the fancy than to inform the understanding ...
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... fmall fcraps which have been handed down to us , that the learning of the ancients was very confider- able , more especially in the fciences of aftronomy and geometry ; the latter of which must have been brought by them to a very ...
... fmall fcraps which have been handed down to us , that the learning of the ancients was very confider- able , more especially in the fciences of aftronomy and geometry ; the latter of which must have been brought by them to a very ...
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... fmall tint of green : they all contain pyrites and fpar in fmall nodules ; and all the fprings flowing from them are warm . The first ftratum of clay is between No. 4 and 5 , the fecond between No. 5 and 6 , the third between 6 and 7 ...
... fmall tint of green : they all contain pyrites and fpar in fmall nodules ; and all the fprings flowing from them are warm . The first ftratum of clay is between No. 4 and 5 , the fecond between No. 5 and 6 , the third between 6 and 7 ...
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... fmall parcel of land , which they allowed to their labourers and tenants in re- turn for their fervices . The lands thus retained in their own occupation were called Inland or Bordland ; that is , fuch as were immediately applied to the ...
... fmall parcel of land , which they allowed to their labourers and tenants in re- turn for their fervices . The lands thus retained in their own occupation were called Inland or Bordland ; that is , fuch as were immediately applied to the ...
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... fmall to employ a great number of veffels , or even to influence the value of lands . There was , indeed , a law of Athelftan that was enacted with a view to encourage commerce . It ordained , that the honours of a Thane of the fecond ...
... fmall to employ a great number of veffels , or even to influence the value of lands . There was , indeed , a law of Athelftan that was enacted with a view to encourage commerce . It ordained , that the honours of a Thane of the fecond ...
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