Illustrations of Sterne: With Other Essays and Verses, Volume 2Cadell and Davies, By J. and J. Haddock, Warrington, 1812 |
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... curious coin- cidence between the story of Widow Wadman , and one which made a great noise in Germany , a little after the mid- dle of the last century . The origin of the lady's distress was nearly the same , but her conduct was very ...
... curious coin- cidence between the story of Widow Wadman , and one which made a great noise in Germany , a little after the mid- dle of the last century . The origin of the lady's distress was nearly the same , but her conduct was very ...
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... curious account of the siege of Namur , published under the immediate direction of King William 111. in 1695. It is a thin folio , of sixty - one pages , with very beautiful plans , engraved by order of the king . If the late Lord ...
... curious account of the siege of Namur , published under the immediate direction of King William 111. in 1695. It is a thin folio , of sixty - one pages , with very beautiful plans , engraved by order of the king . If the late Lord ...
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... curious story quoted by Dr. Warton , in his Essay on Pope , respecting the complaints of a matron against the barbarities of a certain Italian duke ; adding , by way of inference , " huic sané uxori - plus credendum , quam nostræ Mariæ ...
... curious story quoted by Dr. Warton , in his Essay on Pope , respecting the complaints of a matron against the barbarities of a certain Italian duke ; adding , by way of inference , " huic sané uxori - plus credendum , quam nostræ Mariæ ...
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... curious enough , that St. Pierre , á late writer , should adopt , and treat largely of this hypothesis , without re- ferring either to Montaigne or to Sterne . Pasquier wrote a whole chapter , in his Recherches sur la France , on the ...
... curious enough , that St. Pierre , á late writer , should adopt , and treat largely of this hypothesis , without re- ferring either to Montaigne or to Sterne . Pasquier wrote a whole chapter , in his Recherches sur la France , on the ...
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... curious passages respecting the possibility of baptizing infants in utero , but I find that Mauriceau adverts to the circumstance , in his attack on the Cæsarean operation : " il n'y a pas d'oc- casions ou on ne puissé bien donner le ...
... curious passages respecting the possibility of baptizing infants in utero , but I find that Mauriceau adverts to the circumstance , in his attack on the Cæsarean operation : " il n'y a pas d'oc- casions ou on ne puissé bien donner le ...
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