The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 7Tobias Smollett R[ichard]. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-Row, 1793 |
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... Nature and FTA- of Emetics , Purgatives , Mercurials , and Low Diet , in Disorders of Den- gal , and fimilar Latitudes , Walis's ( Dr. ) Art of preventing Dil- cafes and rettoring Health , 411 War with France ! or , Who pays the ...
... Nature and FTA- of Emetics , Purgatives , Mercurials , and Low Diet , in Disorders of Den- gal , and fimilar Latitudes , Walis's ( Dr. ) Art of preventing Dil- cafes and rettoring Health , 411 War with France ! or , Who pays the ...
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... nature . With this view , the illuftrations are chiefly from modern au- thors ; and the notes , which could not be inferted , from their length , in the margin of the Commentary , are added at the end : they chiefly contain defences of ...
... nature . With this view , the illuftrations are chiefly from modern au- thors ; and the notes , which could not be inferted , from their length , in the margin of the Commentary , are added at the end : they chiefly contain defences of ...
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... nature of its compofition , yet if the period of time is defined by any circumftance whatever , and events are fuppofed to happen in that period , which it is either phyfically or morally impoffible could have happened , the error is ...
... nature of its compofition , yet if the period of time is defined by any circumftance whatever , and events are fuppofed to happen in that period , which it is either phyfically or morally impoffible could have happened , the error is ...
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... nature ? It is fo in its outline , for the events may have happened : it is more accurately fo , in each distinct fcene , where the narrative or the appropriated fenti- ments engage the mind by the semblance and intereft of real- ity ...
... nature ? It is fo in its outline , for the events may have happened : it is more accurately fo , in each distinct fcene , where the narrative or the appropriated fenti- ments engage the mind by the semblance and intereft of real- ity ...
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... nature worse or more deformed than the original . ' 6 That It seems , he fays , to arife from a mistake as to the idea in tended to be conveyed by the word worfe , confidered in a poetica ! light . As Aristotle does not require the ...
... nature worse or more deformed than the original . ' 6 That It seems , he fays , to arife from a mistake as to the idea in tended to be conveyed by the word worfe , confidered in a poetica ! light . As Aristotle does not require the ...
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Page 296 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the falling together; and a little child shall lead them.
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Page 577 - ... for maintaining the security and rights of his own dominions ; for supporting his allies; and for opposing views of aggrandizement and ambition on the part of France, which would be at all times dangerous to the general interests of Europe, but are peculiarly...
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Page 79 - Metaphysics, vol. iv. p. 357. richer and in every respect a finer language than even the Greek of Homer. All the other languages of India have a great resemblance to this language, which is called the Shanscrit.
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Page 443 - Greek writers speak of Homer as an ancient and celebrated poet} it is true also that they have quoted from the works, which they ascribe to him, various passages that we find at present in the Iliad and Odyssey: yet still there...
Page 5 - It is false that any representation is mistaken for reality; that any dramatic fable in its materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment was ever credited.