The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 1Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson Munroe and Francis, 1804 Vols. 3-4 include appendix: "The Political cabinet." |
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... common bu- finefs , and conveniences of life , are here generally well understood and in high estimation . Thofe , which profefs chiefly to delight and improve the mind with taste and fentiment , to increase the powers of the foul and ...
... common bu- finefs , and conveniences of life , are here generally well understood and in high estimation . Thofe , which profefs chiefly to delight and improve the mind with taste and fentiment , to increase the powers of the foul and ...
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... common purfuit of fortune . So few are they , who engage themselves wholly in the study of literature and in fpeculating on life and manners , that the de- fign of their occupation is very little underftood . The votary , who intends ...
... common purfuit of fortune . So few are they , who engage themselves wholly in the study of literature and in fpeculating on life and manners , that the de- fign of their occupation is very little underftood . The votary , who intends ...
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... common law . They have armed this with the halter against us , and it would no fooner acquit us on the plea of fafh ion , than nature would refift the force of a suicide on his urg- ing . The polifhed modes of Japan , or morality ...
... common law . They have armed this with the halter against us , and it would no fooner acquit us on the plea of fafh ion , than nature would refift the force of a suicide on his urg- ing . The polifhed modes of Japan , or morality ...
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... , partakes of that vi- vacity common to French writers , and of that obfcurity , which , to whomfoever we must impute it , is frequent in tranflations from the French . There are , however , fewer 44 THE MONTHLY ANTHOLOGY .
... , partakes of that vi- vacity common to French writers , and of that obfcurity , which , to whomfoever we must impute it , is frequent in tranflations from the French . There are , however , fewer 44 THE MONTHLY ANTHOLOGY .
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... common . It may , on the whole , be pronounced well - written . He has begun with his hero in the cradle , and traced him through the various and complicated fcenes of an active and enthusiastic life . It seems ever to have been a ...
... common . It may , on the whole , be pronounced well - written . He has begun with his hero in the cradle , and traced him through the various and complicated fcenes of an active and enthusiastic life . It seems ever to have been a ...
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