The Scots Magazine, Volume 52Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran, 1790 - English literature |
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... juft and confonant to the ordinary courfe of nature ; the ex- treme impetuofity of the winds , their variations , the exceffive fall of rain , and the other phænomena upon fuch occa- fions , feem not difficult to be accounted for . And ...
... juft and confonant to the ordinary courfe of nature ; the ex- treme impetuofity of the winds , their variations , the exceffive fall of rain , and the other phænomena upon fuch occa- fions , feem not difficult to be accounted for . And ...
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... juft concern the interruption of the tranquillity of other countries , I have at the fame time great fatisfaction in being able to acquaint you , that I receive continued affurances of the good difpofition of all foreign powers to ...
... juft concern the interruption of the tranquillity of other countries , I have at the fame time great fatisfaction in being able to acquaint you , that I receive continued affurances of the good difpofition of all foreign powers to ...
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... juft fallen from the Chancellor of the Exche- quer , and hoped , when the fit time came , Minifters might be able to justify them- felves , fince , if no notice had been taken of the circumftance , he should have thought it his duty to ...
... juft fallen from the Chancellor of the Exche- quer , and hoped , when the fit time came , Minifters might be able to justify them- felves , fince , if no notice had been taken of the circumftance , he should have thought it his duty to ...
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... juft arrived from the Levant ; an evident proof to what aftonishing a mount the French trade is extended in the Turkish dominions . Mr Volney , in his travels in Syria , relates , that in the cities of Afia the number of the tra- ding ...
... juft arrived from the Levant ; an evident proof to what aftonishing a mount the French trade is extended in the Turkish dominions . Mr Volney , in his travels in Syria , relates , that in the cities of Afia the number of the tra- ding ...
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... juft . In order to judge of it fairly , it fhould be planted properly . All perennial plants , which have top roots , as the lucerne and burnet have , fhould be raised in nurferies , and tranf- planted . The burnet should from the ...
... juft . In order to judge of it fairly , it fhould be planted properly . All perennial plants , which have top roots , as the lucerne and burnet have , fhould be raised in nurferies , and tranf- planted . The burnet should from the ...
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