The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 23R. Griffiths, 1760 - Books |
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... lived in great affluence and fplendor , to the age of < fixty - five . ' Efchylus , our Author continues , is a bold animated writer ; his imagination fertile , but licentious ; his judge- ❝ment true , but ungoverned ; his genius ...
... lived in great affluence and fplendor , to the age of < fixty - five . ' Efchylus , our Author continues , is a bold animated writer ; his imagination fertile , but licentious ; his judge- ❝ment true , but ungoverned ; his genius ...
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... lived between the third and the fifth of thefe reviews , or about the year 800 ; though there were perfons in the fol- lowing ages , who made additions to these original comments , and were , therefore , called by the fame name . About ...
... lived between the third and the fifth of thefe reviews , or about the year 800 ; though there were perfons in the fol- lowing ages , who made additions to these original comments , and were , therefore , called by the fame name . About ...
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· < tury , lived thofe four great men , Maimonides , Jarchi , Aben Ezra and Kimchi . The Author has given us here fome curi- ous quotations from Capellanus and other learned men , by which it appears , that about the year 1300 or 1400 ...
· < tury , lived thofe four great men , Maimonides , Jarchi , Aben Ezra and Kimchi . The Author has given us here fome curi- ous quotations from Capellanus and other learned men , by which it appears , that about the year 1300 or 1400 ...
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... lived at Rome : but you will perhaps be furprized , though I affure you it is fact , that they have reached the ears , if I may fo fay , of all Lisbon , and that the King himself is not ignorant of them . I my- felf have learnt things ...
... lived at Rome : but you will perhaps be furprized , though I affure you it is fact , that they have reached the ears , if I may fo fay , of all Lisbon , and that the King himself is not ignorant of them . I my- felf have learnt things ...
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... lived ; that they were Japonefe by birth , and Laymen ; that they were condemned as accom- plices with the faid Francifcans , and that they put on the habit of the Jefuits when they were going to be crucified ( p . 56 ) . Thefe Fathers ...
... lived ; that they were Japonefe by birth , and Laymen ; that they were condemned as accom- plices with the faid Francifcans , and that they put on the habit of the Jefuits when they were going to be crucified ( p . 56 ) . Thefe Fathers ...
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