The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 31W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1771 - English literature |
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... person , and obliging his nobility to follow it . ' The rife , progrefs , and various fluctuations , of the preten- hions of the English crown to the fuperiority of Scotland , are related by our author with great precision and fidelity ...
... person , and obliging his nobility to follow it . ' The rife , progrefs , and various fluctuations , of the preten- hions of the English crown to the fuperiority of Scotland , are related by our author with great precision and fidelity ...
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... persons had attained the habit of genuine logic . And even others , who have laid a good foundation in logical knowledge , and , by means of mathematics , have attained to fome ability therein , yet , like novices , blunder every where ...
... persons had attained the habit of genuine logic . And even others , who have laid a good foundation in logical knowledge , and , by means of mathematics , have attained to fome ability therein , yet , like novices , blunder every where ...
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... person under it could be found guilty of any crime but by a jury . If law was mixed with fact , the judge always instructed the jury what he apprehended to be the law , and they , after comparing the facts with his expofition of the law ...
... person under it could be found guilty of any crime but by a jury . If law was mixed with fact , the judge always instructed the jury what he apprehended to be the law , and they , after comparing the facts with his expofition of the law ...
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... person , whether educated here or abroad . Though we are not much disposed to be lavish in our commendations of the Hiftory before us , yet we must do our very spirited , though faithful , tranflator the juftice to con- fefs , that we ...
... person , whether educated here or abroad . Though we are not much disposed to be lavish in our commendations of the Hiftory before us , yet we must do our very spirited , though faithful , tranflator the juftice to con- fefs , that we ...
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... person was fenfible of his danger , or to what cause to at- tribute his malady . The noted colic at Amfterdam was of of this kind , which for a long time eluded the fearch of the learned with refpect to its caufe ; and it feems probable ...
... person was fenfible of his danger , or to what cause to at- tribute his malady . The noted colic at Amfterdam was of of this kind , which for a long time eluded the fearch of the learned with refpect to its caufe ; and it feems probable ...
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