The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 63Tobias Smollett W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1787 Each number includes a classified "Monthly catalogue." |
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... appear uncommonly modeft to thofe who are aware of the unphilofophical difturbances which lately agitated that body ... appears , is delivered as preparatory to thofe that follow in this volume , and that are promised in future volumes ...
... appear uncommonly modeft to thofe who are aware of the unphilofophical difturbances which lately agitated that body ... appears , is delivered as preparatory to thofe that follow in this volume , and that are promised in future volumes ...
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... appears that these experiments , of which this Tract gives the relation and confequences , have been the chief employment of the author in the fummers of 1783 , 4 , and 5 ; and are the continuation of thofe he performed in the year 1775 ...
... appears that these experiments , of which this Tract gives the relation and confequences , have been the chief employment of the author in the fummers of 1783 , 4 , and 5 ; and are the continuation of thofe he performed in the year 1775 ...
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... appears no more . Our author , however , thinks , with probability , that this nilometer , formed of a block of marble cannot have been destroyed ; but that it is buried under the fand and mud of the Nile , whence it may one day be ex ...
... appears no more . Our author , however , thinks , with probability , that this nilometer , formed of a block of marble cannot have been destroyed ; but that it is buried under the fand and mud of the Nile , whence it may one day be ex ...
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... appears that the Oafis of Ammon is little known by the modern Egyptians . They are better acquainted with the fecond . Abulfeda , as our author obferves , places there a city , named Behnefe , and different from that one feen on the ...
... appears that the Oafis of Ammon is little known by the modern Egyptians . They are better acquainted with the fecond . Abulfeda , as our author obferves , places there a city , named Behnefe , and different from that one feen on the ...
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... appears that the au- thority of the Porte is far from being regarded with great ve- neration in this country . Two fubfequent Letters prefent us with the hiftory of Ali Bey , concerning whose numerous ex- ploits our author appears to ...
... appears that the au- thority of the Porte is far from being regarded with great ve- neration in this country . Two fubfequent Letters prefent us with the hiftory of Ali Bey , concerning whose numerous ex- ploits our author appears to ...
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Page 128 - I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire...
Page 129 - And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water : and lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him : And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Page 188 - Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
Page 228 - Majefties may have leave and licence to come with their mips, as alfo with the merchandizes and goods on board the fame (the trade and importation whereof are not prohibited by the laws of either kingdom...
Page 293 - I love God," and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love his brother also.
Page 431 - And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David ; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also ? Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Page 254 - Though the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it.
Page 254 - ... feet. A part of this thickness is constituted by a coat of earth, which gives growth to many large trees. The residue, with the hill on both sides, is one solid rock of limestone.
Page 427 - He is a middle-sized, spare man, about forty years old, of a brown complexion and darkbrown coloured hair, but wears a wig ; a hooked nose, a sharp chin, grey eyes, and a large mole near his mouth : was born in London, and for many years was a hose-factor in Freeman's Yard, in Cornhill ; and now is owner of the brick and pantile works near Tilbury Fort in Essex...
Page 254 - ... resolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. Looking down...