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Should my humble attempt be viewed by men of learning and habits of generaliza - tion, they confidering the objedt of this Effay, will not look on all thofe details and obferva - tions as unneceffary, which would be fuper - fluous, if intended folely for their perufal.
Sketch of democracy 1796
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The fourth Edition correftcd; with an Hillorical IntrodoAion on* the Feudal Sftem, and copious Notes and llluftrations, by Charles Waikins, Efq. Author of an Effay on the Law of Defcents, &c. Royal 8 vo.pp. 560.los. 6d.
The Monthly Review 1796
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Mr. Powell ob - serves, that if the jury find exprefsly, that the difpofition made by the fecond will is inconftftent with the devifes con - tained in the former, that appears to be a fufficient ground to decide the latter a revocation, Effay on Devijes,
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Not to detain the reader however any longer, I beg leave to refer him, for this part of the fubjecr, to my Effay in
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Verfes to the author of the Effay on Nothing, 278 44.
Edinburgh Fugitive Pieces ... William Creech 1791
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The peculiar advantages of this mode of instruction, and a more diftincl: account of the nature of it, I explained in an Effay on the befl method of communicating religions knowledge to the members of chrijlian focieties.
Discourses on various subjects, including several on particular occasions 1787
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The Effay on Tune comes next under confideration; and we entirely agree with.
The Monthly Review 1786
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• For our account of his former Effay (on the Neceflity of a Re - deemer), which gained the Norriiian priie in 1783, fee Rev. for
The Monthly Review 1786
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* This garden feems to have been made after the plan laid down by Lord Bacon in his 46th Effay, to which, that I may not multiply quotations, I will refer the reader upon
Planting and Ornamental Gardening: A Practical Treatise 1785
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He was firft art antagonift to Pope, and helped Theobald to publifli his Shakfpcare i but, feeing Pope the rifihg man — when Croufaz attacked his Effay on Man, for fome faults which it has, and fome which it has not, Warburton defended it in the Review of that time.
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL. D ... 1785
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