The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings, Volume 2A. and W. Galignani, 1825 |
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... Natural History .. Introduction to a New History of the World . The Preface to the Roman History . The Preface to a History of England The Preface to the History of the Earth , etc .. The Preface to the Beauties of English Poetry . The ...
... Natural History .. Introduction to a New History of the World . The Preface to the Roman History . The Preface to a History of England The Preface to the History of the Earth , etc .. The Preface to the Beauties of English Poetry . The ...
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... NATURAL HISTORY . PUBLISHED IN MDCCLXII . PREFACE . pre- Or all the studies which have employed The Preface to Dr Brookes's Natural History.
... NATURAL HISTORY . PUBLISHED IN MDCCLXII . PREFACE . pre- Or all the studies which have employed The Preface to Dr Brookes's Natural History.
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... natural history deserves the ference : other sciences generally terminate in doubt , or rest in bare speculation ; but here every step is marked with certainty ; and , while a description of the objects around us teaches to supply our ...
... natural history deserves the ference : other sciences generally terminate in doubt , or rest in bare speculation ; but here every step is marked with certainty ; and , while a description of the objects around us teaches to supply our ...
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... natural history . He was learned and rich , and during the course of a long life , indefatigable and accurate . his works are insupportably tedious and disgusting , filled with unnecessary quotations and unimportant digressions ...
... natural history . He was learned and rich , and during the course of a long life , indefatigable and accurate . his works are insupportably tedious and disgusting , filled with unnecessary quotations and unimportant digressions ...
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... natural history into method , but their efforts have been so incomplete as scarcely to deserve mentioning . Their at- tempts were improved upon , some time after , by Mr Ray , whose method we have adopted in the history of quadru- peds ...
... natural history into method , but their efforts have been so incomplete as scarcely to deserve mentioning . Their at- tempts were improved upon , some time after , by Mr Ray , whose method we have adopted in the history of quadru- peds ...
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