The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 51A. Constable, 1830 |
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... judge , whether Mr Clerk's Essay can be regarded as a mere amplification , or repetition of them . That the learned Jesuit had not the most distant notion of the actual value and effect of that operation , is demonstrated , indeed , by ...
... judge , whether Mr Clerk's Essay can be regarded as a mere amplification , or repetition of them . That the learned Jesuit had not the most distant notion of the actual value and effect of that operation , is demonstrated , indeed , by ...
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... Judge above mentioned - and he , upon being applied to , after the late publication of Sir Howard Douglas , was pleased to state in a letter , dated 17th November 1829 , which is now before us , that he cannot recollect having been ...
... Judge above mentioned - and he , upon being applied to , after the late publication of Sir Howard Douglas , was pleased to state in a letter , dated 17th November 1829 , which is now before us , that he cannot recollect having been ...
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... Judges of the Court of Session , ) also a cousin of Lord Cranstoun , and residing in Scotland when his Lordship came to pay the visit that has been alluded to , to his instructor . That visit made , as might have been expected , a ...
... Judges of the Court of Session , ) also a cousin of Lord Cranstoun , and residing in Scotland when his Lordship came to pay the visit that has been alluded to , to his instructor . That visit made , as might have been expected , a ...
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... judges were implicated in his deeds , the exone- * They were a poor , harmless company of men , become mad by op- ' pression ; and they had taken nothing during all the time they had been ' together , but what had been freely given them ...
... judges were implicated in his deeds , the exone- * They were a poor , harmless company of men , become mad by op- ' pression ; and they had taken nothing during all the time they had been ' together , but what had been freely given them ...
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... judge . In the cor- respondence which he carried on at this period , and which is printed at the end of his Memoirs , we find frequent mention of the noted troopers , ( so frightful to the country , ) Inglis , Kennoway , and Creighton ...
... judge . In the cor- respondence which he carried on at this period , and which is printed at the end of his Memoirs , we find frequent mention of the noted troopers , ( so frightful to the country , ) Inglis , Kennoway , and Creighton ...
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