The Port Folio, Volume 5Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1811 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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... character , and not quite compati- ble with that candour and fairness for which Britons are often so nobly distinguished , still persist in denominating a certain nautical instrument Hadley's Quadrant , though , as it is well known to a ...
... character , and not quite compati- ble with that candour and fairness for which Britons are often so nobly distinguished , still persist in denominating a certain nautical instrument Hadley's Quadrant , though , as it is well known to a ...
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... character who handles it : the lo- gician directing his arguments in a different channel from the mathematician , or the professed orator . Let the mode or form however of the argument be what it may , it must belong either to the ...
... character who handles it : the lo- gician directing his arguments in a different channel from the mathematician , or the professed orator . Let the mode or form however of the argument be what it may , it must belong either to the ...
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... character from a furious persecutor into that of a zealous preacher of the Gospel . The urbanity of the prisoner induced him to rest his Confir- mation upon a simple appeal to the King's knowledge of the facts without entering upon any ...
... character from a furious persecutor into that of a zealous preacher of the Gospel . The urbanity of the prisoner induced him to rest his Confir- mation upon a simple appeal to the King's knowledge of the facts without entering upon any ...
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... character was exemplary may be reasonably be- lieved , since those who opposed his measures with the greatest vehemence acknowledged his virtue . If we consider his attention to literature and the propriety of his domestic conduct while ...
... character was exemplary may be reasonably be- lieved , since those who opposed his measures with the greatest vehemence acknowledged his virtue . If we consider his attention to literature and the propriety of his domestic conduct while ...
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... character as a critic ; I send you the following monody occasione 1 , by the death of the right hon . Charles James Fox , confident if it be condemned it will be done with the candour of the scholar , and the politeness of the gen ...
... character as a critic ; I send you the following monody occasione 1 , by the death of the right hon . Charles James Fox , confident if it be condemned it will be done with the candour of the scholar , and the politeness of the gen ...
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