Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Editions1824 |
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... Europe would very quickly have followed the publication of it . In drawing this conclusion , however , we should make much too small an allowance for the influence of received opinion , and the resistance that mere habit is able , for a ...
... Europe would very quickly have followed the publication of it . In drawing this conclusion , however , we should make much too small an allowance for the influence of received opinion , and the resistance that mere habit is able , for a ...
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... Europe , continued a Cartesian to the end of his days . Mairan in his youth was a zealous defendor of the vortices , though he became after- wards one of the most strenuous supporters of the doctrine of gravitation . A Memoir of the ...
... Europe , continued a Cartesian to the end of his days . Mairan in his youth was a zealous defendor of the vortices , though he became after- wards one of the most strenuous supporters of the doctrine of gravitation . A Memoir of the ...
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... Europe , is , as is already observed , alto- gether arbitrary . The work contains a full description of the whole world , so far as known to the author , with its coun- tries , cities , and all its features , physical and politi- cal ...
... Europe , is , as is already observed , alto- gether arbitrary . The work contains a full description of the whole world , so far as known to the author , with its coun- tries , cities , and all its features , physical and politi- cal ...
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... Europe , with the exception of Spain and Sicily , the information of Edrisi is neither accurate nor ex- tensive . Germany is particularly ill delineated ; England he describes as a great Island , in its form resembling an ostrich , in ...
... Europe , with the exception of Spain and Sicily , the information of Edrisi is neither accurate nor ex- tensive . Germany is particularly ill delineated ; England he describes as a great Island , in its form resembling an ostrich , in ...
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... Europe particularly , because of its importance in the present state of the world ; and Britain might , with propriety , be allowed to occupy in the compendium , that pre - eminence among the na- tions which the God of Providence has ...
... Europe particularly , because of its importance in the present state of the world ; and Britain might , with propriety , be allowed to occupy in the compendium , that pre - eminence among the na- tions which the God of Providence has ...
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