The New-York Review, Volume 3George Dearborn & Company, 1838 |
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... presence of a certain proportion of air be essential to the salubrity of water , does it not deserve the serious consi- deration of those of our medical friends who deem water 30 [ July , Efficacy of Mineral Springs .
... presence of a certain proportion of air be essential to the salubrity of water , does it not deserve the serious consi- deration of those of our medical friends who deem water 30 [ July , Efficacy of Mineral Springs .
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deration of those of our medical friends who deem water which has been boiled the most salubrious , since both before , and during ebullition , a large quantity of air is expelled from it . Dr. Daubeny goes on to speak of the methods of ...
deration of those of our medical friends who deem water which has been boiled the most salubrious , since both before , and during ebullition , a large quantity of air is expelled from it . Dr. Daubeny goes on to speak of the methods of ...
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... friend Don Martino was built after the fashion of those in the plain of Campania , and boasted not a single fire place in any one apartment excepting the kitchen . There accordingly the whole family ( for they were by no means stoics as ...
... friend Don Martino was built after the fashion of those in the plain of Campania , and boasted not a single fire place in any one apartment excepting the kitchen . There accordingly the whole family ( for they were by no means stoics as ...
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... friends . We can readily conceive that the family of Bishop Sandford might be restrained by a sen- timent of domestic modesty from anticipating that the record of such a life would , when unaided by personal recollections , chal- lenge ...
... friends . We can readily conceive that the family of Bishop Sandford might be restrained by a sen- timent of domestic modesty from anticipating that the record of such a life would , when unaided by personal recollections , chal- lenge ...
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... friends felt when she was taken away , that she had attained the fitting meetness for her rest . For some weeks before her death she had been resid- ing , on a visit in Berwickshire , at the seat of Sir James Stuart , in the friendship ...
... friends felt when she was taken away , that she had attained the fitting meetness for her rest . For some weeks before her death she had been resid- ing , on a visit in Berwickshire , at the seat of Sir James Stuart , in the friendship ...
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Page 301 - The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state ; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published.
Page 79 - Cavallo, in Italy, April 20th, 1822, aged five years and three months. ' I shall go to her, but she shall not return to me.
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Page 302 - To subject the press to the restrictive power of a licenser, as was formerly done, both before and since the revolution, is to subject all freedom of sentiment to the prejudices of one man, and make him the arbitrary and infallible judge of all controverted points in learning, religion, and government.
Page 229 - Athens; 1000 from the fall of the Roman empire in the West to the discovery of America; and the remaining 296 will almost complete three centuries of the modern state of Europe and mankind.
Page 68 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
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Page 197 - In fact, the Indians that I have had an opportunity of seeing in real life are quite different from those described in poetry. They are by no means the stoics that they are represented; taciturn, unbending, without a tear or a smile.
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