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... production . It may properly be classed among general histories , for it comprehends a vast extent of time , and includes the history of all the nations of the civilized world at that period . He was evidently a great traveller ...
... production . It may properly be classed among general histories , for it comprehends a vast extent of time , and includes the history of all the nations of the civilized world at that period . He was evidently a great traveller ...
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... productions of a More , a Barbauld , a Williams , and a Hamilton , will not think it impossible that Lady Mary's letters should have been the production of a woman : The suspicion probably arose from a surrep- titious edition of them ...
... productions of a More , a Barbauld , a Williams , and a Hamilton , will not think it impossible that Lady Mary's letters should have been the production of a woman : The suspicion probably arose from a surrep- titious edition of them ...
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... production that has ever adorned this walk of literature , is Dr. Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands . It is more rich in sentiment than in description ; and where the country supplies nothing to ar rest the attention of his ...
... production that has ever adorned this walk of literature , is Dr. Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands . It is more rich in sentiment than in description ; and where the country supplies nothing to ar rest the attention of his ...
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... productions there is a mixture of the mythology of the times ; and the romances of the middle ages are marked by the same character , and might probably de- rive their origin from the Saracens , who a few years before had overrun a ...
... productions there is a mixture of the mythology of the times ; and the romances of the middle ages are marked by the same character , and might probably de- rive their origin from the Saracens , who a few years before had overrun a ...
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... productions in this walk of literature I am not , for many reasons , disposed to enlarge . I cannot however omit paying a just tribute to the merit of two female writers of the present day . Miss Burney , now Ma- dame D'Arblay , is not ...
... productions in this walk of literature I am not , for many reasons , disposed to enlarge . I cannot however omit paying a just tribute to the merit of two female writers of the present day . Miss Burney , now Ma- dame D'Arblay , is not ...
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