The British Critic, Volumes 3-4F. and C. Rivington, 1815 |
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... seems is a wicked wag ; and has published a book , in which he compares the University of Edinburgh to an indifferent water - mill , to which Scotch people resort to have their Greek and Mathematics ground , " however distant the mill ...
... seems is a wicked wag ; and has published a book , in which he compares the University of Edinburgh to an indifferent water - mill , to which Scotch people resort to have their Greek and Mathematics ground , " however distant the mill ...
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... seems to be with philology as with philosophy , in which science , says Cicero , there is no opinion so absurd , but that some person or other hath advanced it . Mr. Dunbar se- riously argues , that Homer could not have used the Eolic ...
... seems to be with philology as with philosophy , in which science , says Cicero , there is no opinion so absurd , but that some person or other hath advanced it . Mr. Dunbar se- riously argues , that Homer could not have used the Eolic ...
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... their favourite measure has no tendency whatever to produce such an effect ; for , say they , the science of agriculture is yet in its in- fancy , fancy , and there seems to be no end to 50 Naismith on the Corn - Laws .
... their favourite measure has no tendency whatever to produce such an effect ; for , say they , the science of agriculture is yet in its in- fancy , fancy , and there seems to be no end to 50 Naismith on the Corn - Laws .
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... seems to be of opinion that the public warehousing of corn in a year of plenty to meet a subsequent year of scarcity , would be highly useful ; and he earnestly recommends more rigid frugality to the farmers , and a gradual diminution ...
... seems to be of opinion that the public warehousing of corn in a year of plenty to meet a subsequent year of scarcity , would be highly useful ; and he earnestly recommends more rigid frugality to the farmers , and a gradual diminution ...
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... seem liable to the censure which we have passed , and en- deavoured to justify , against preaching too much to the imagi nation . But there are several circumstances , which , duly con- sidered , in a great measure , if not entirely ...
... seem liable to the censure which we have passed , and en- deavoured to justify , against preaching too much to the imagi nation . But there are several circumstances , which , duly con- sidered , in a great measure , if not entirely ...
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