The Athenaeum: A Magazine of Literary and Miscellaneous Information ..., Volume 3John Aikin Longmans, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808 - Literature, Modern |
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... word treatise should be banished as impure , and the word treaty employed as identical in meaning with tractate , which by some writers has been inconveniently abridged into tract , and thus becomes confoundable with another tract ...
... word treatise should be banished as impure , and the word treaty employed as identical in meaning with tractate , which by some writers has been inconveniently abridged into tract , and thus becomes confoundable with another tract ...
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... word is confined to those towers which ter- minate in needles ; a slender taper heighth is essential to the idea of a spire . Perhaps it is the word spear with another spelling , and that - the original spire was a signal - post upon a ...
... word is confined to those towers which ter- minate in needles ; a slender taper heighth is essential to the idea of a spire . Perhaps it is the word spear with another spelling , and that - the original spire was a signal - post upon a ...
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... word abdicated in the Commons vote is changed into the word deserted ; and I am to acquaint your lordships what some of the grounds are that induced the Commons to insist on the word abdicated , and not to agree to your lordship's ...
... word abdicated in the Commons vote is changed into the word deserted ; and I am to acquaint your lordships what some of the grounds are that induced the Commons to insist on the word abdicated , and not to agree to your lordship's ...
Contents
Venezianu On the imitative Principle as an Instrument | 4 |
Education Account of the Gulph and Territory of Cataro | 10 |
concluded Synonymic Elucidations continued Remark | 34 |
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