A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 2John Walker Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 |
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... particular instance ; every body must allow that our newspapers , and the other collections of in- telligence periodically published , by the materials they afford for discourse and speculation , contribute very much to the emolument of ...
... particular instance ; every body must allow that our newspapers , and the other collections of in- telligence periodically published , by the materials they afford for discourse and speculation , contribute very much to the emolument of ...
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... particular persons , and dis- persed about the city , or sent to their friends in the pro- vinces , that no Roman might be ignorant even of the minu- test event , which happened in the metropolis of the world . We may find some ground ...
... particular persons , and dis- persed about the city , or sent to their friends in the pro- vinces , that no Roman might be ignorant even of the minu- test event , which happened in the metropolis of the world . We may find some ground ...
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... particular degree of regard from the learned and the studious , that it excels any library that was ever yet offered to public sale , in the value as well as number of the volumes which it contains , and that therefore this catalogue ...
... particular degree of regard from the learned and the studious , that it excels any library that was ever yet offered to public sale , in the value as well as number of the volumes which it contains , and that therefore this catalogue ...
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... particular orders of men in every church , who have related the original , and the rules of every society , or recounted the lives of its founder and its members ; those who have deduced in every country the succession of bishops ; and ...
... particular orders of men in every church , who have related the original , and the rules of every society , or recounted the lives of its founder and its members ; those who have deduced in every country the succession of bishops ; and ...
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John Walker. particular historians , whose accounts are , perhaps , generally more exact , by being less extensive , and more interesting , by being more particular . Nor has less regard been paid to the different nations of the Germanic ...
John Walker. particular historians , whose accounts are , perhaps , generally more exact , by being less extensive , and more interesting , by being more particular . Nor has less regard been paid to the different nations of the Germanic ...
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