The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 81R. Griffiths, 1789 - Books |
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... most acute reader to detect every latent fault in the Greek poetry of a modern . Is it not , therefore , to be lamented , that the author did not reftrain the eager impulfes of his genius , and write with rather more deliberation ...
... most acute reader to detect every latent fault in the Greek poetry of a modern . Is it not , therefore , to be lamented , that the author did not reftrain the eager impulfes of his genius , and write with rather more deliberation ...
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... most effectual way of encouraging agriculture . Mr. Young's remarks on this fub- ject , on the prices of provifions , their influence on the profperity of the farmer , the prefent ftate of agriculture in Great Britain , and other ...
... most effectual way of encouraging agriculture . Mr. Young's remarks on this fub- ject , on the prices of provifions , their influence on the profperity of the farmer , the prefent ftate of agriculture in Great Britain , and other ...
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... most valuable field for pafture ; but the fureft way would be to weigh all the cattle before they went into each field , and to be certain that they have neither got meat nor water for twelve hours before weighed ; and to weigh them ...
... most valuable field for pafture ; but the fureft way would be to weigh all the cattle before they went into each field , and to be certain that they have neither got meat nor water for twelve hours before weighed ; and to weigh them ...
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... most fertile kind of foil , that , by this practice , was fo highly improved as to carry no less than thir- teen corn crops running without manure , and without diminu- tion of value . One of the laft of these crops was fold , as it ...
... most fertile kind of foil , that , by this practice , was fo highly improved as to carry no less than thir- teen corn crops running without manure , and without diminu- tion of value . One of the laft of these crops was fold , as it ...
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... most unforeseen and diftreffing , has taken place , from which a change of government may be looked for and as his wishes for information may poffibly be gratified by fome future mini- fter , who may condefcend fo far as to encourage ...
... most unforeseen and diftreffing , has taken place , from which a change of government may be looked for and as his wishes for information may poffibly be gratified by fome future mini- fter , who may condefcend fo far as to encourage ...
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Page 405 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
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