The Quarterly Review, Volume 4William 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, 1810 - English literature |
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... naval architecture ( the French of course ) have fallen into innumerable errors , which nothing but practical experience could correct ; and , that this degree of uncertainty , on a point so material , establishes a fact , not perfectly ...
... naval architecture ( the French of course ) have fallen into innumerable errors , which nothing but practical experience could correct ; and , that this degree of uncertainty , on a point so material , establishes a fact , not perfectly ...
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... naval men for naval management . If a man indeed can be supposed so far to divest himself of the best feelings of human nature , from the moment that he takes his seat at the admiralty board , as to shake off at once all recollections ...
... naval men for naval management . If a man indeed can be supposed so far to divest himself of the best feelings of human nature , from the moment that he takes his seat at the admiralty board , as to shake off at once all recollections ...
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... naval skill and naval management with a vengeance ! Surely the admiral cannot mean to insinuate that his lordship was looking forward to the arrival of that glorious period , when by the perfectibility of the human mind , so happily ...
... naval skill and naval management with a vengeance ! Surely the admiral cannot mean to insinuate that his lordship was looking forward to the arrival of that glorious period , when by the perfectibility of the human mind , so happily ...
Contents
pulsos depois de batidos os Francezes | 1 |
Elements of Geometry Geometrical Analysis and plane | 25 |
Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes exécuté | 42 |
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