THE MONTHLY REVIEW; OR,LITERARY JOURNAL1769 |
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... Readers fome idea of the Author's manner , we have tranflated a few fhort paffages , by which we believe it will appear , that our cenfure of his work , as low and illiberal , is just . After having endeavoured to expofe Martinazza's ...
... Readers fome idea of the Author's manner , we have tranflated a few fhort paffages , by which we believe it will appear , that our cenfure of his work , as low and illiberal , is just . After having endeavoured to expofe Martinazza's ...
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... reading we only open the book , but the page prefents the words contained in it to our fight ; fo , in thinking , we fet ... Readers a proper conception of his fcheme . Idea . ' fays he , is the fame as image , and the term imagi- nation ...
... reading we only open the book , but the page prefents the words contained in it to our fight ; fo , in thinking , we fet ... Readers a proper conception of his fcheme . Idea . ' fays he , is the fame as image , and the term imagi- nation ...
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... Readers will judge for themselves of the probability of this fcheme , which , finding ourselves unable to accompany the Au- thor step by step through his admirable work , we have ex- tracted from different parts of it . It is the ...
... Readers will judge for themselves of the probability of this fcheme , which , finding ourselves unable to accompany the Au- thor step by step through his admirable work , we have ex- tracted from different parts of it . It is the ...
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... Readers , Mr. Search has given them the following caution in his introduc- tion . I do not pretend infenfibility to reputation , but my firft and principal wifh is to be of fome little fervice to my fel- low creatures , by fuggefting ...
... Readers , Mr. Search has given them the following caution in his introduc- tion . I do not pretend infenfibility to reputation , but my firft and principal wifh is to be of fome little fervice to my fel- low creatures , by fuggefting ...
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... Reader who takes it up , will , in all probability , expect more than he finds . The Effayift fets out with a principle which he has no right to af- fume , not having established it , and it being a position which fome readers may think ...
... Reader who takes it up , will , in all probability , expect more than he finds . The Effayift fets out with a principle which he has no right to af- fume , not having established it , and it being a position which fome readers may think ...
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