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... remarks . I have found several books on my shelves which ought to have been inserted . These have their titles set out at the commencement of their articles , in leading paragraphs ; the casuals are without this formality . ' ] Before ...
... remarks . I have found several books on my shelves which ought to have been inserted . These have their titles set out at the commencement of their articles , in leading paragraphs ; the casuals are without this formality . ' ] Before ...
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... remarks will explain the way in which they may be right , and in which they may be wrong : - THE EDITORIAL SYSTEM . SIR , I have reason to think that many persons have a very in- accurate notion of the Editorial system . What I call by ...
... remarks will explain the way in which they may be right , and in which they may be wrong : - THE EDITORIAL SYSTEM . SIR , I have reason to think that many persons have a very in- accurate notion of the Editorial system . What I call by ...
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... remarks are particularly wanted with reference to the editorial comments upon letters of complaint . There is often no time to send these letters to the contributor , and even when this can be done , an editor is — and very properly ...
... remarks are particularly wanted with reference to the editorial comments upon letters of complaint . There is often no time to send these letters to the contributor , and even when this can be done , an editor is — and very properly ...
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... remarks : - And were there any such species or natural kind of animal , it would be hard to make good those six positions of body which , according to the three dimensions , are ascribed unto every Animal ; that is , infra , supra ...
... remarks : - And were there any such species or natural kind of animal , it would be hard to make good those six positions of body which , according to the three dimensions , are ascribed unto every Animal ; that is , infra , supra ...
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... remark on the different colours which the same person gives to one story , according to the bias under which he tells it . My friend Galloway told me how he had quizzed the Council of the Royal Society , to my great amusement . When ...
... remark on the different colours which the same person gives to one story , according to the bias under which he tells it . My friend Galloway told me how he had quizzed the Council of the Royal Society , to my great amusement . When ...
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Página 16 - For physic and farces his equal there scarce is— His farces are physic, his physic a farce is.