Edinburgh Magazine: Or Literary Miscellany, Volume 17J. Sibbald, 1801 |
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... caused them at laft to be taken be- fore a magiftrate , who advised their friends to fend them to fome proper person to be taken care of ; and they were accordingly fent to Dr Willis . They were , however , foon liberated ; and fince ...
... caused them at laft to be taken be- fore a magiftrate , who advised their friends to fend them to fome proper person to be taken care of ; and they were accordingly fent to Dr Willis . They were , however , foon liberated ; and fince ...
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... cause of liberty tri- umphant , and the conflitution re ftored ( as in fact it was ) the parlia ment , led rather to faction than in- fluenced by patriotism and justice , re- fufed him an afylum . Sir Edward Seymour , the man who had ...
... cause of liberty tri- umphant , and the conflitution re ftored ( as in fact it was ) the parlia ment , led rather to faction than in- fluenced by patriotism and justice , re- fufed him an afylum . Sir Edward Seymour , the man who had ...
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... causes we may attribute the popularity of Cowper ; he too , perhaps in as high a degree as any man who ever lived , is the poet of nature ; led by his excurfive mufe through many a mazy path , he re- turns to the fcenes , which nature ...
... causes we may attribute the popularity of Cowper ; he too , perhaps in as high a degree as any man who ever lived , is the poet of nature ; led by his excurfive mufe through many a mazy path , he re- turns to the fcenes , which nature ...
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... causes of his exceffive love of pleasure , foon refumed their influence , and for a long time after . wards produced an inconfiftency of conduct for which even his moft in- timate friends could not account . Last week he fought a duel ...
... causes of his exceffive love of pleasure , foon refumed their influence , and for a long time after . wards produced an inconfiftency of conduct for which even his moft in- timate friends could not account . Last week he fought a duel ...
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... Cause of the pre- fent Scarcity , and of the enormous high Price of every Article of Contumption : with the only radical Remedies . By R. Walthman , Common Councilman of the City of London . 8vo . 25. Jordan , Inquiry into the Caufes ...
... Cause of the pre- fent Scarcity , and of the enormous high Price of every Article of Contumption : with the only radical Remedies . By R. Walthman , Common Councilman of the City of London . 8vo . 25. Jordan , Inquiry into the Caufes ...
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