The English Review, Or, An Abstract of English and Foreign Literature, Volume 21

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J. Murray, 1793
 

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Page 219 - And so, without more circumstance at all, I hold it fit, that we shake hands, and part: You, as your business, and...
Page 21 - ... voracious trout; and he, in turn, as often by the subtle, greedy alligator. Behold him rushing forth from the flags and reeds. His enormous body swells. His plaited tail, brandished high, floats upon the lake.
Page 20 - ... with a gradual taper, forty or fifty feet to the limbs; but below five or six feet, these trunks would measure a third more in circumference, on account of the projecting jambs, or supports...
Page 487 - House of Commons does not fully and fairly represent the people of England, which, consistently with what your Petitioners conceive to be the principles of the constitution...
Page 289 - Field, being the last that was fought between the Houses of York and Lancaster ; with many other true Historical Passages.
Page 321 - Defcription of the Plain of Troy ; with a Map of that Region delineated from an actual Survey, read in French before the Royal Society of Edinburgh, by the Author, M.

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