The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review, Volume 17F. and C. Rivington, 1801 |
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... fi- tuation of affairs Péroufe , la , voyage in fearch of - 204 101 132 Perrot , Mrs. Leigh , trial of 95 Philofophical tranfactions for 1800 , part ii . Pinchard's trial of Mrs. Perrot 95 Plutarch , abridged collection from his lives ...
... fi- tuation of affairs Péroufe , la , voyage in fearch of - 204 101 132 Perrot , Mrs. Leigh , trial of 95 Philofophical tranfactions for 1800 , part ii . Pinchard's trial of Mrs. Perrot 95 Plutarch , abridged collection from his lives ...
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... fituation , foil , and climate ; con- quers thofe obftacles which nature feemed to have made in- furmountable by human effort , and accomplishes works which , in times of ignorance , might have been deemed prodigies and miracles . The ...
... fituation , foil , and climate ; con- quers thofe obftacles which nature feemed to have made in- furmountable by human effort , and accomplishes works which , in times of ignorance , might have been deemed prodigies and miracles . The ...
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... fituation , wonderfully fo . - He had been my patient fourteen years ago , when he had been pretty much burnt , although not near to fe- verely as at this time ; and had then been treated with ol . lin . c . aqua calcis , to which a ...
... fituation , wonderfully fo . - He had been my patient fourteen years ago , when he had been pretty much burnt , although not near to fe- verely as at this time ; and had then been treated with ol . lin . c . aqua calcis , to which a ...
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... name of their leader ; and which , in a fituation where impetuous winds , almoft conftantly prevail , promifes to be of con- 勤 confiderable importance to future navigators . Leaving this place 1 Voyage in Search of La Péroufe .
... name of their leader ; and which , in a fituation where impetuous winds , almoft conftantly prevail , promifes to be of con- 勤 confiderable importance to future navigators . Leaving this place 1 Voyage in Search of La Péroufe .
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... fituation of which place , he differs totally from Mungo Park . This gentleman , whofe veracity has been never called in queftion , places Silla upon the Niger , and to the fouth - west of Tombuctoo ; whereas , Mr. Damberger rc ...
... fituation of which place , he differs totally from Mungo Park . This gentleman , whofe veracity has been never called in queftion , places Silla upon the Niger , and to the fouth - west of Tombuctoo ; whereas , Mr. Damberger rc ...
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