The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 48A. Constable, 1828 |
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... original work now before us - in which , by those great helps , he has been enabled , not only to supply many defects , but to cor- rect many errors , and reconcile some apparent contradictions in the earlier accounts . It was evidently ...
... original work now before us - in which , by those great helps , he has been enabled , not only to supply many defects , but to cor- rect many errors , and reconcile some apparent contradictions in the earlier accounts . It was evidently ...
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... original feelings of veneration ; and , trusting to their vast superiority in numbers , they ventured to make war on their heaven - descended visitants . The result was unresisted carnage and hopeless submission . A tax of a certain ...
... original feelings of veneration ; and , trusting to their vast superiority in numbers , they ventured to make war on their heaven - descended visitants . The result was unresisted carnage and hopeless submission . A tax of a certain ...
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... original matter which his learning and research have enabled him to bring to bear on the principal subject , and constitutes indeed a mis- cellany of a singularly curious and interesting description . It consists , besides very copious ...
... original matter which his learning and research have enabled him to bring to bear on the principal subject , and constitutes indeed a mis- cellany of a singularly curious and interesting description . It consists , besides very copious ...
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... original Italian of the Abate Luigi Lanzi . By THOMAS ROSCOE . 6 vols . 8vo . London . Simpkin & Mar- shall . 1828 . Storia Pittorica della Italia , dal risorgimento delle belle arti fin presso al fine del 18 secolo , dell ' Abate Luigi ...
... original Italian of the Abate Luigi Lanzi . By THOMAS ROSCOE . 6 vols . 8vo . London . Simpkin & Mar- shall . 1828 . Storia Pittorica della Italia , dal risorgimento delle belle arti fin presso al fine del 18 secolo , dell ' Abate Luigi ...
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... original Latin , or in the author's English translation , than his lexicon of the Anglo - Saxon . It is useful , however , as a book of occasional reference , and not the less so , because the author looked upon learning only as a means ...
... original Latin , or in the author's English translation , than his lexicon of the Anglo - Saxon . It is useful , however , as a book of occasional reference , and not the less so , because the author looked upon learning only as a means ...
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