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... Boards . Cadell jun . and Davies . 1796 . IF it be true , as we should willingly suppose , that literature and philosophy are not less generally diffused , nor less esteemed , in this country , than among the most enlightened nations on ...
... Boards . Cadell jun . and Davies . 1796 . IF it be true , as we should willingly suppose , that literature and philosophy are not less generally diffused , nor less esteemed , in this country , than among the most enlightened nations on ...
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... Boards . Robinsons . 1796 . T ' HE public have already been presented with several very pleasing specimens of Mr. Dyer's literary talents . As a poet , his productions discover , in a considerable degree , a cultivated taste , as well ...
... Boards . Robinsons . 1796 . T ' HE public have already been presented with several very pleasing specimens of Mr. Dyer's literary talents . As a poet , his productions discover , in a considerable degree , a cultivated taste , as well ...
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... Boards . Downes . 1796 . THE HE metaphysical writings of Professor Kant , which have successively appeared in Germany from the year 1770 to this time , have in that country attracted such general attention , that an inquiry into the ...
... Boards . Downes . 1796 . THE HE metaphysical writings of Professor Kant , which have successively appeared in Germany from the year 1770 to this time , have in that country attracted such general attention , that an inquiry into the ...
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... Boards . Pote . Eton . 1795 . WE E have long considered the great public schools of this country as most useful national institutions : more useful even , in some respects , than our noble universities . In the latter , as they are now ...
... Boards . Pote . Eton . 1795 . WE E have long considered the great public schools of this country as most useful national institutions : more useful even , in some respects , than our noble universities . In the latter , as they are now ...
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... Boards . Egerton . 1796 . TH HE author of this work considers politics as a science , de- pending on a chain of general doctrines , which may be fairly deduced from just principles , and is susceptible of rational proof ; and therefore ...
... Boards . Egerton . 1796 . TH HE author of this work considers politics as a science , de- pending on a chain of general doctrines , which may be fairly deduced from just principles , and is susceptible of rational proof ; and therefore ...
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Página 338 - With inward stillness, and a bowed mind ; When lo ! its folds far waving on the wind, I saw the train of the departing Year ! Starting from my silent sadness Then with no unholy madness Ere yet the...
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Página 59 - Smith soon attracted notice, by his passion for books, and by the extraordinary powers of his memory. The weakness of his bodily constitution prevented him from partaking in their more active amusements; but he was much beloved by them on account of his temper, which, though warm, was to an uncommon degree friendly and generous.
Página 174 - History of Hindostan; its Arts, and its Sciences, as connected •with the History of the other great Empires of Asia, during the most ancient Periods of the World. With numerous illustrative Engravings.