London Review of English and Foreign Literature, Volume 8Cox and Bigg, 1779 |
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... lefs delicate than important . Many of the contentions in council after lord Pigot's re- turn from Tanjore , having been occafioned by Mr. Ben- field's claims , arifing from mortgages on the Tanjore coun- try , made to him by the nabob ...
... lefs delicate than important . Many of the contentions in council after lord Pigot's re- turn from Tanjore , having been occafioned by Mr. Ben- field's claims , arifing from mortgages on the Tanjore coun- try , made to him by the nabob ...
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... lefs , in effect , than have ex- " pofed to great hazard the very being of the government " it was his duty to protect , and have introduced a scene of " tumult , anarchy , and civil laughter . He therefore " wifely adopted the measures ...
... lefs , in effect , than have ex- " pofed to great hazard the very being of the government " it was his duty to protect , and have introduced a scene of " tumult , anarchy , and civil laughter . He therefore " wifely adopted the measures ...
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... lefs propriety than art , that father Phi- lips accufes the reformers of impioufly daring to bring the facred myfteries of religion to the test of reafon and their bodily fenfes . The teftimony of fenfe then being declared incompetent ...
... lefs propriety than art , that father Phi- lips accufes the reformers of impioufly daring to bring the facred myfteries of religion to the test of reafon and their bodily fenfes . The teftimony of fenfe then being declared incompetent ...
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... lefs becomes a philofopher to be merry than to be wife ; at least that he should take care to be wife when --- ever he is merry . This , however , does not appear to be Mr. Whitefield's cafe , in the prefent inftance . He is pleased ...
... lefs becomes a philofopher to be merry than to be wife ; at least that he should take care to be wife when --- ever he is merry . This , however , does not appear to be Mr. Whitefield's cafe , in the prefent inftance . He is pleased ...
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... lefs . " Amongst other points which I fhall pafs unnoticed , I muft beg to know where I have faid , that the Greeks had no ad- vantages over the Grecians ? where I have called Alexander a Perfian and where he is faid to be the fon of ...
... lefs . " Amongst other points which I fhall pafs unnoticed , I muft beg to know where I have faid , that the Greeks had no ad- vantages over the Grecians ? where I have called Alexander a Perfian and where he is faid to be the fon of ...
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