The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 41Tobias Smollett W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1776 - English literature Each number includes a classified "Monthly catalogue." |
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... himself , is fo ridiculous in its origin , and fo totally unfupported either by facts or probability , that it is with reluctance we admit any account of it into our Review . We fhall therefore relate the cafe as briefly as pof- fible ...
... himself , is fo ridiculous in its origin , and fo totally unfupported either by facts or probability , that it is with reluctance we admit any account of it into our Review . We fhall therefore relate the cafe as briefly as pof- fible ...
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... himself , the first time I saw him , that I had ma- terials for a fecond publication on the fubject . muft , there- fore , at that time , have had the materials for the bulk of the fe- cond volume , I suppose about three fourths of it ...
... himself , the first time I saw him , that I had ma- terials for a fecond publication on the fubject . muft , there- fore , at that time , have had the materials for the bulk of the fe- cond volume , I suppose about three fourths of it ...
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... himself . The fecond volume , I can affure him , contains nothing but more conceits , of the fame kind with thofe in the firft , and no- thing is exhibited in it but the exercife of the fame knack , whe- ther of darkening or ...
... himself . The fecond volume , I can affure him , contains nothing but more conceits , of the fame kind with thofe in the firft , and no- thing is exhibited in it but the exercife of the fame knack , whe- ther of darkening or ...
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... himself , and his gracious provifion for our improvement and happiness , not only in this infancy of our being , but to a period which has no bounds . Let philofophers , as certainly becomes their character , con- fider facts , and the ...
... himself , and his gracious provifion for our improvement and happiness , not only in this infancy of our being , but to a period which has no bounds . Let philofophers , as certainly becomes their character , con- fider facts , and the ...
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... himself , he fet fail for that pur- pofe , but was fhipwrecked in the gulph near the mouth of the river Mehon on the coaft of China . All he had acquired was loft in the waves ; and his poems , which he held up in one hand , while he ...
... himself , he fet fail for that pur- pofe , but was fhipwrecked in the gulph near the mouth of the river Mehon on the coaft of China . All he had acquired was loft in the waves ; and his poems , which he held up in one hand , while he ...
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