The Quarterly review, Volumen 13Murray, 1815 |
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... reader of a story which is worthy the pen of Scarron and the pencil of Gillray . La nuit du 17 , je m'étois couché sous un drap qui me servoit de tente ; mon chameau , portant mes légers bagages , étoit attaché quelques pas devant moi ...
... reader of a story which is worthy the pen of Scarron and the pencil of Gillray . La nuit du 17 , je m'étois couché sous un drap qui me servoit de tente ; mon chameau , portant mes légers bagages , étoit attaché quelques pas devant moi ...
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... reader may , perhaps , believe that his comrades would be concerned for him ; that they would stop to help him ; that they would hasten to support him , and help his tot- tering footsteps . Far from this : the poor wretch was only an ...
... reader may , perhaps , believe that his comrades would be concerned for him ; that they would stop to help him ; that they would hasten to support him , and help his tot- tering footsteps . Far from this : the poor wretch was only an ...
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... readers , and I flatter myself I shall obtain it when they consider that the Chinese dictionary , which should long ago have been published by MM . Fourmont and De Guignes , both of them distinguished in all Europe as well for their ...
... readers , and I flatter myself I shall obtain it when they consider that the Chinese dictionary , which should long ago have been published by MM . Fourmont and De Guignes , both of them distinguished in all Europe as well for their ...
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... readers of the Asiatic Researches will recollect how success- fully the crafty pundits of Benares supplied the zealous Wilford with the whole genealogy of Noah ; how accurately they furnished him with the identical names of Shem , Ham ...
... readers of the Asiatic Researches will recollect how success- fully the crafty pundits of Benares supplied the zealous Wilford with the whole genealogy of Noah ; how accurately they furnished him with the identical names of Shem , Ham ...
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... readers the mechanism of the Chi- nese characters , and to make the present dictionary easy and familiar , it will not be necessary to follow M. de Guignes in his account of the supposed origin and progress of this extraordinary ...
... readers the mechanism of the Chi- nese characters , and to make the present dictionary easy and familiar , it will not be necessary to follow M. de Guignes in his account of the supposed origin and progress of this extraordinary ...
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