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Mr. C. undertakes to refute an insinuation of Gibbon against the truth of the Mosaick History ; and at the same time , to satisfy the doubts of the Edinburgh Reviewers , who are said to have adopted the objection of the Historian ...
Mr. C. undertakes to refute an insinuation of Gibbon against the truth of the Mosaick History ; and at the same time , to satisfy the doubts of the Edinburgh Reviewers , who are said to have adopted the objection of the Historian ...
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Indeed he cannot be otherwise : for such is the inherent and invincible truth of the History , that while he follows it chap- ter by chapter , and verse by verse , he is compelled to be right . Now then we find , not only that the ...
Indeed he cannot be otherwise : for such is the inherent and invincible truth of the History , that while he follows it chap- ter by chapter , and verse by verse , he is compelled to be right . Now then we find , not only that the ...
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Though such truths are so ob- vious , that a child might state them , if he had no interest in per- verting the truth . ' " This is selon les regles ; and the art of undervaluing is well understood by most classes of detected plunderers ...
Though such truths are so ob- vious , that a child might state them , if he had no interest in per- verting the truth . ' " This is selon les regles ; and the art of undervaluing is well understood by most classes of detected plunderers ...
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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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