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It is not easy to suppress a smile when we reflect how little the men whose humble labours are here recorded , dreamed of the honours that awaited them . If a dauber of this ragged tribe ever felt a sensation that resembled ambition ...
It is not easy to suppress a smile when we reflect how little the men whose humble labours are here recorded , dreamed of the honours that awaited them . If a dauber of this ragged tribe ever felt a sensation that resembled ambition ...
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We are far from wishing to undervalue any of Mr. Laplace's labours . We readily allow a very high degree of merit to a variety of improvements which he has made in several departments of natural philosophy ; but we have reason to ...
We are far from wishing to undervalue any of Mr. Laplace's labours . We readily allow a very high degree of merit to a variety of improvements which he has made in several departments of natural philosophy ; but we have reason to ...
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... I accepted the service of certain offices in the University of Coimbra : and there , in the time which was not taken up in official business , with sufficient labour of body and mind , I completed the work of this history .
... I accepted the service of certain offices in the University of Coimbra : and there , in the time which was not taken up in official business , with sufficient labour of body and mind , I completed the work of this history .
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Contents
Affaires dEspagne Nos 1 to 5 Confédération | 1 |
Reliques of Robert Burns consisting chiefly of original | 19 |
Anecdotes of Painters who have resided or been born | 36 |
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| Pealkiri | The Quarterly Review, 1. köide |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) |
| Contributor | George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1809 |
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