The Monthly Magazine, Volume 17R. Phillips, 1804 |
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... SHOULD be glad to be informed by any of your readers , verfed in hiftori- cal or biographical enquiries , whether there exifts any particular record of the life and actions of that great warrior and ftatefman , John Duke of Bedford ...
... SHOULD be glad to be informed by any of your readers , verfed in hiftori- cal or biographical enquiries , whether there exifts any particular record of the life and actions of that great warrior and ftatefman , John Duke of Bedford ...
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... Should the tafk of comparing my opinion with facts appear worth purfuing , you may easily con- firm or refute the theory by making the comparifon for my part , shall take notice but of one incident of the kind ; and this is , the ...
... Should the tafk of comparing my opinion with facts appear worth purfuing , you may easily con- firm or refute the theory by making the comparifon for my part , shall take notice but of one incident of the kind ; and this is , the ...
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... should drink beyond his mark should be obnoxi- ous to a fevere punishment . The brewing vessel of those times was called alfath , from al , ale , and fet a vat : and if we may credit the Laws of Athe ! - dan ( ap . Brompec . 19. ) was ...
... should drink beyond his mark should be obnoxi- ous to a fevere punishment . The brewing vessel of those times was called alfath , from al , ale , and fet a vat : and if we may credit the Laws of Athe ! - dan ( ap . Brompec . 19. ) was ...
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... should still be in many instances very superficial and imperfect . A thorough acquaintance with the ftructure or compofition of na- tural bodies requires much laborious in- veftigation , and muft long , perhaps to the end of the world ...
... should still be in many instances very superficial and imperfect . A thorough acquaintance with the ftructure or compofition of na- tural bodies requires much laborious in- veftigation , and muft long , perhaps to the end of the world ...
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... should continue in any animal with out the acceffion of nourishment , during fuch an immense period of time , is in the highest degree improbable . Lizards , fnakes , and fome infects will live a very confiderable time without food ; in ...
... should continue in any animal with out the acceffion of nourishment , during fuch an immense period of time , is in the highest degree improbable . Lizards , fnakes , and fome infects will live a very confiderable time without food ; in ...
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