The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, Volumes 59-60W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1785 - English literature |
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... greater quantity of the aftringent principle , which is extracted by water , while the latter abounds chiefly in a bitter one , con- tained in a refinous fubftance . We could fill pages with dif- cuffions on this subject ; but , after ...
... greater quantity of the aftringent principle , which is extracted by water , while the latter abounds chiefly in a bitter one , con- tained in a refinous fubftance . We could fill pages with dif- cuffions on this subject ; but , after ...
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... greater changes . We think that our author's plan will , in many cafes , fuc- ceed ; and if it is not always fuccefsful , it will fuggeft fome useful fchemes in thofe inftances where it has failed . as he allows , are indeed of very ...
... greater changes . We think that our author's plan will , in many cafes , fuc- ceed ; and if it is not always fuccefsful , it will fuggeft fome useful fchemes in thofe inftances where it has failed . as he allows , are indeed of very ...
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... greater variety of experiments , than Dr. Home has made on this fubject , to afcertain the fource of the acids procured . by diftilling peat . It may be proper to add , that every kind , of mofs is not very fufceptible of the ...
... greater variety of experiments , than Dr. Home has made on this fubject , to afcertain the fource of the acids procured . by diftilling peat . It may be proper to add , that every kind , of mofs is not very fufceptible of the ...
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... greater effect ? ' These offenfive parts ' give no very high idea of the de- licacy of taste generally attributed to the Athenians , at least in the days of Aristophanes : they would now be heard with difguft by the upper gallery in a ...
... greater effect ? ' These offenfive parts ' give no very high idea of the de- licacy of taste generally attributed to the Athenians , at least in the days of Aristophanes : they would now be heard with difguft by the upper gallery in a ...
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... greater precifion . The plot and the fentiments . are really those of the Italian : the conduct of the play is not very different ; for in one place there is only a flight variation of a scene , and the two first acts of the opera are ...
... greater precifion . The plot and the fentiments . are really those of the Italian : the conduct of the play is not very different ; for in one place there is only a flight variation of a scene , and the two first acts of the opera are ...
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