The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage, Том 14Proprietors., 1802 |
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... nearly discontinued . The disgraceful and inhuman practice of bull - baiting is still prevalent in this country , and notwithstand- ing the late exertions of a worthy advocate in the cause of humanity , the legislature has refused by ...
... nearly discontinued . The disgraceful and inhuman practice of bull - baiting is still prevalent in this country , and notwithstand- ing the late exertions of a worthy advocate in the cause of humanity , the legislature has refused by ...
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... nearly re- lated , and their dispositions were similar : both were actuated by the same spirit of destruction ; their principles were the same , but exerted with different degrees of malevolence . Of the two , Malignity was the most ...
... nearly re- lated , and their dispositions were similar : both were actuated by the same spirit of destruction ; their principles were the same , but exerted with different degrees of malevolence . Of the two , Malignity was the most ...
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... nearly twelve years have distract- ed the world and desolated some of the finest and happiest parts of Europe , he is never guilty of virulent invective against those , who , in the times he has occasion to notice , might be fairly ...
... nearly twelve years have distract- ed the world and desolated some of the finest and happiest parts of Europe , he is never guilty of virulent invective against those , who , in the times he has occasion to notice , might be fairly ...
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... partitioned out between the English , the Nizam , the Mahrattas , and other powers in India , will be given with the Second Part , and that both are nearly finished . History of the Rel ellion in the Year 1745. By THE MONTHLY MIRROR . 33.
... partitioned out between the English , the Nizam , the Mahrattas , and other powers in India , will be given with the Second Part , and that both are nearly finished . History of the Rel ellion in the Year 1745. By THE MONTHLY MIRROR . 33.
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... nearly sixty years . This work is from the pen of a gentleman , who has highly distinguished himself in the literary world , by his much admired tragedy of Douglas , and other literary works . He informs us that he has taken great pains ...
... nearly sixty years . This work is from the pen of a gentleman , who has highly distinguished himself in the literary world , by his much admired tragedy of Douglas , and other literary works . He informs us that he has taken great pains ...
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