The British Critic, Volumes 5-6F. and C. Rivington, 1795 |
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... HISTORY . The conclufion of our account of Dr. Ruffel's Na- tural Hiftory of Aleppo , having been reserved for this volume ; we here again congratulate the public on the completion of a work , ( originally well begun ) in a manner ...
... HISTORY . The conclufion of our account of Dr. Ruffel's Na- tural Hiftory of Aleppo , having been reserved for this volume ; we here again congratulate the public on the completion of a work , ( originally well begun ) in a manner ...
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... history had been a fable , Moses might well have been expected to show as much ima- gination , as thofe painters who , from falfe ideas of the deluge , have drawn pictures in which men are reprefented crowding to the tops of eminences ...
... history had been a fable , Moses might well have been expected to show as much ima- gination , as thofe painters who , from falfe ideas of the deluge , have drawn pictures in which men are reprefented crowding to the tops of eminences ...
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... HISTORY . Within the period to which this Preface refers , we have seen a moft curious piece of original history , brought forward from the duft of libraries , by the judicious care and diligence of Mr. David Macpherson . * No. VI . p ...
... HISTORY . Within the period to which this Preface refers , we have seen a moft curious piece of original history , brought forward from the duft of libraries , by the judicious care and diligence of Mr. David Macpherson . * No. VI . p ...
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