The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany, Volume 72Archibald Constable and Company, 1810 - English literature |
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... considerable analogy with the Egyptian copper of the coins of the Ptolemies . The Eugenian Museum , at Milan , has lately been enriched with eight new pieces , discovered in the excava- tions made at Aquilegi . They con- sist of a group ...
... considerable analogy with the Egyptian copper of the coins of the Ptolemies . The Eugenian Museum , at Milan , has lately been enriched with eight new pieces , discovered in the excava- tions made at Aquilegi . They con- sist of a group ...
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... considerable distance from the anti- quity . When you have advanced about two miles from Arbroath , your atten- tion is attracted by Dick Mont Law , commonly called the Law Hill , on the highest eminence in the vicinity of the town ...
... considerable distance from the anti- quity . When you have advanced about two miles from Arbroath , your atten- tion is attracted by Dick Mont Law , commonly called the Law Hill , on the highest eminence in the vicinity of the town ...
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... considerable labour ; and time must be allowed for the weight of the earth to have its full effect : but there are obvious reasons for pre- ferring such expenditure on labour to that on timber , especially at its pre- sent exorbitant ...
... considerable labour ; and time must be allowed for the weight of the earth to have its full effect : but there are obvious reasons for pre- ferring such expenditure on labour to that on timber , especially at its pre- sent exorbitant ...
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... considerable degree of cer- tainty , the amount of expenditure on a large number of the locks , which formed the ... considerably less than the estimated expense . From a simi- lar investigation respecting the nine locks now actually ...
... considerable degree of cer- tainty , the amount of expenditure on a large number of the locks , which formed the ... considerably less than the estimated expense . From a simi- lar investigation respecting the nine locks now actually ...
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... considerable loser . On the death of his mother , the debts incurred by him were sup- posed , although very considerable , to be liquidated , either wholly or at least to a very considerable amount , by the falling in of her jointure ...
... considerable loser . On the death of his mother , the debts incurred by him were sup- posed , although very considerable , to be liquidated , either wholly or at least to a very considerable amount , by the falling in of her jointure ...
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Page 346 - Then each at once his falchion drew. Each on the ground his scabbard threw, Each looked to sun and stream and plain As what they ne'er might see again ; Then foot and point and eye opposed, In dubious strife they darkly closed.
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