The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 51R. Griffiths, 1774 - Books |
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... Court of Seffion in Scotland , on Literary Pro- perty , 90 DEFENCE of the Confiderations on Subfcriptions , 463 DICKENSON's Effay on the Power of Great Britain over the Colo- nies , DOBBS's Patriot King , a Tragedy , 390 DODD's ...
... Court of Seffion in Scotland , on Literary Pro- perty , 90 DEFENCE of the Confiderations on Subfcriptions , 463 DICKENSON's Effay on the Power of Great Britain over the Colo- nies , DOBBS's Patriot King , a Tragedy , 390 DODD's ...
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... court of Auguftus , where , if ever the defire of pleafing animated you , it must make you exert all the means of doing it . You will fee there , full as well , I dare fay , as Horace did at Rome , how ftates are defended by arms ...
... court of Auguftus , where , if ever the defire of pleafing animated you , it must make you exert all the means of doing it . You will fee there , full as well , I dare fay , as Horace did at Rome , how ftates are defended by arms ...
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... court of equity it is one as it is .. I could expatiate as much upon all his different works , but that I should exceed the bounds of a letter , and run into a differtation . How delightful is his Hiftory of that Northern Brute , the ...
... court of equity it is one as it is .. I could expatiate as much upon all his different works , but that I should exceed the bounds of a letter , and run into a differtation . How delightful is his Hiftory of that Northern Brute , the ...
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... court , before the grand front of this fuperb manfion , is a granite column , with a ftatue of Venus on the top of it ; both purchafed from the Arundel collection . Mr. Evelyn , who bought them at Rome for Lord Arundel , was told by the ...
... court , before the grand front of this fuperb manfion , is a granite column , with a ftatue of Venus on the top of it ; both purchafed from the Arundel collection . Mr. Evelyn , who bought them at Rome for Lord Arundel , was told by the ...
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... court of William the Con- queror ++ . ' Mr. Warton has , in the first section of his history , prefented us with a great variety of extracts from the Norman - Saxon poetry , in which we may trace the origin and structure of many modern ...
... court of William the Con- queror ++ . ' Mr. Warton has , in the first section of his history , prefented us with a great variety of extracts from the Norman - Saxon poetry , in which we may trace the origin and structure of many modern ...
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