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By Thomas Christie

Published 1796
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"Containing scientific abstracts of important and interesting works, published in English; a general account of such as are of less consequence, with short characters; notices, or reviews of valuable foreign books; criticisms on new pieces of music and works of art; and the literary intelligence of Europe, &c."

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The Analytical Review, Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan
by Thomas Christie - 1788
"Containing scientific abstracts of important and interesting works, published in English; ageneral account of such as are of less consequence, with short characters; notices...
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The Analytical Review, Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan
by Thomas Christie - 1794
"Containing scientific abstracts of important and interesting works, published in English; ageneral account of such as are of less consequence, with short characters; notices...
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The Analytical Review, Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan
by Thomas Christie - 1790
"Containing scientific abstracts of important and interesting works, published in English; ageneral account of such as are of less consequence, with short characters; notices...
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Granada - Page 180
Having never been redeemed, the child was trained up in the caftilian court, and remained there till (he was reclaimed, as queen of Granada, ...
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Athens - Page 111
Since that period he was fome years examining the antiquities of Athens, where the favour of fome principal turks was of great ufe to him,~and enabled ...
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Rome - Page 640
About twelve years ago, Rome and other parts of Europe refounded with the report of miracles, wrought by a celebrated beggar, who, at that time, died, ...
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Oxford - Page 437
Gibbon, for the freedom of his remarks en the univerfity of Oxford, and for his indirect attacks upon revelation : but he vindicates ^either the one, ...
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Turin - Page 114
I hardly think you will like Turin ; the court is old and dull ; and in that country every one follows the example of the court. ...

Zurich - Page 585
We find in chap, xvi, that the citizens of Zurich, ' having arrived at that happy equality, the gift of nature, which flavery and barbarity had too ...
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Paris - Page 389
eight of which were borrowed from the king's library at Paris ; fix werp procured from various quarters, and one wae collated in Italy'. ...
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Cologne - Page 549
and after many tender and affectionate adieus, madame Genlis left Switzerland, once more entered Germany, defcended the Rhine in a boat to Cologne, ...
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Sarnen - Page 585
Accordingly Landenberg chofe a cattle belonging to Albert, fituate ou a hill of Undmvald, near Sarnen, while Gefsler gave great umbrage to the people ...
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Bremgarten - Page 549
diftance from Bremgarten. * Adieu, my dear and tender friend, my heart ftinll always be with you, and I (hall conftantly oifet up my vows for the ...
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Paramaribo - Page 227
Their parlour floors are always fcqured ' agreeable fragrance ! the negro girls taking one half in each hand, keep ' ate the inhabitants of Paramaribo ...
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Cambridge - Page 160
who, although they have undergone every material examination, which is ever demanded from the graduates of Oxford .md Cambridge, are willing to fubmit ...
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York - Page 110
This experiment is made in a field at Middlethorp, near York; belonging to Samuel Barlow, efq., and may be viewed from the left hand tide of the road ...
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London - Page 577
hi this nefarious traffic a number of the lower order of the jews in London alfilt the dealers, in an eminent degree, particularly in the circulation ...
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Naples - Page 337
firft article that occurs is a critical inquiry concerning the title of Charles vin to the crown of Naples, drawn up with a view to a work which Mr. ...
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Clermont, In - Page 541
SRN Chamfort was born in 1741, at a village near Clermont, In Auvergne, and educated at the college of Gradins, where he foon • replied, ...

Vienna - Page 583
point of intelligence even in Vienna, was difcovered to be fo much Superior to his own."— We cannot help noticing, that, notwithftanding the author ...
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Milan - Page 565
565 The vifits] of Piero to Rome and Milan, his marriage with Alfonfma Orfini, the exaltation of Giovanni to the dignity of cardinal at the age of ...
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Jand - Page 550
but whatever mar occur, fhe is refolved to be a trench citizen even in a foreign Jand, if Ihe cannot be one within the walls of Paris. ...

Genoa - Page 347
In the vigour of manhood, about his fiftieth year, the liga-rían marquis governed the cities of Milan and Genoa, as the minuter pf imperial authority. ...
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Modena - Page 612
no pope of Rome, no duke of Modena, no german circles, no cities, free or enflaved, are to* contribute one (hilling to oar "indemnity for the paft. ...
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Plymouth - Page 240
It was not the wind, for that during the fame period was always eafterly, here at lead, and our durance from Plymouth is barely 45 leagues. ...

Florence - Page 25
Some fpeci- mens of this era are moft probably even now to be feen at Rome and Florence, viz. the Medicean Venus, the Hercules Farnefe, ...
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Hanover - Page 129
in his travels he had been much dillinsuiihed at Hanover, pre-vious to the elevation of the elector, on account of the Idfons he had given the court ...
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Edinburgh - Page 74
The thirteenth, which was preached before the managers of the Orphan Hofpital in Edinburgh, unfolds the means, which providence employs, ...
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Fleurus - Page 356
(25 june) was an event of which the enemy was totally ignorant, and that this unaccountable circumllancc occafioned the famous battle of Fleurus. ...

Arcot - Page 571
the ingenious.mifcreants extend theic manufacture to thofc of India : and a coinage of the liar pagoda of Arcot has been ertabliihed in London for ...

Conwy - Page 8
If we want potatoes in any quail* titles, we miift import them from the vale of Conwy, from (Jhelhire-, and Lancashire. ...

Philadelphia - Page 642
fermons were delivered to a refpedbble auditory in Philadelphia, and publifhed in that city, with a view to check the fpread of infidelity in America; ...
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Berlin - Page 449
Next, ' a mediator was to be . fon i; ht, and we looked for that mediator at Berlin.' The king ef Pruffia, whofc * merits, in abandoning the general ...
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Prague - Page 553
The elevation of the pole at the royal obiervatory at Prague examined by altitudes of the fun and ftars : by Aloys David. ...

Liverpool - Page 10
the materials to and from Liverpool, and the other places connected •with them, amount to between thirty and forty, from thirty te fifty tons burden. ...

Bern - Page 121
Thf following day he continued hi« journey to Bern and Zurich, and i have.

Dunkirk - Page 355
north had always been vanquiflied, except at Honfchoote and before Maubeuge; it was now difperfed in cantonments, all the way from Givet to Dunkirk. ...

Rennes - Page 199
was prefident of the revolutionary tribunal of Rennes", On the execution of Car-rier, Brutus was ordered to be conducted a prifoner to Paris. ...

Madrid - Page 238
They openly boaft of being able, in a (hort time, to penetrate to Madrid ; to force ihc ger- man powers to peace; and to totally fubdue the dutch. ...
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Dover - Page 548
At length, they fet out once more for Dover, in company with that gentleman, his Con, and Mr. Reed, the latter of whom went to Paris along with them. ...

Venice - Page 346
mechanic arts: the objcib of foreign luxury were furniihed' at an exorbitant price by the merchants of Pifa and Venice ; and the luperfluous wealth, ...
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Belgrade - Page 591
The duke d'Urfel had fcrved with diltinilion in the imperial army, at Belgrade and Orfova, and Jofeph in vain attempted to gain him over to fécond his ...

Salford - Page 411
we underftand, prefented in a feparate publication, to ' a committee appointed for regulating the police of the towns of Manchefter and Salford ;' but ...

Almería - Page 294
"We muft nof deny our readers the pleafure of perufing the beautiful of Tlidanu'iit and Almería. F. 26. < Now thrice three bright revolving fun« had ...

Hamilton, MD - Page 276
Hamilton, MD of the Royal College of Phyficians, London ; Member of the Medical and Phyfical Societies of Edinburgh; and of the Medical Society of ...

Rothenburg - Page 217
CW Bœbert, fuperin- tcndant of the royal pruffian mines at Rothenburg on the Saale, wae On ' the means of averting ftorms from mines by new invented ...

Dublin - Page 90
commenced his ftudies under a preceptor of the quaker feil, and finifhed them in Trinity College, in Dublin—a college of a moft rigid obfervance in ...
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Norwich - Page 326
The following is a general ftatement of the annual receipts and i^íburfements of the court of guardians, in the city of Norwich, fpr ten years, ...
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Brighton - Page 380
If fo ill-written and indelicate a performance as this were to becon» a faihionable companion for young ladies and gentlemen at Brighton, and all the ...
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Algiers - Page 208
n in Algiers, a truce may be bought for money, but when ratified, even Algiers is too wife or too juft to difown and annul its obligation. ...

Amiens - Page 12
For Le Bon, who was tried and executed :it Amiens, near the Irene of his guilt, mil's \V. thus forcibly exprelles juft fenti- ments of indignation. ...

Southampton - Page 533
A Sermon preached at the Cenfecra-tion of All Saint's Church, Southampton, before the Right Reverend the Lord Bißsop of Exeter, November 12, 1/95. ...

Birmingham - Page 571
The avarice and ingenuity of roan ii;e:onnantly finding out new fourccs of fraud; mlbmuch, fhat in London, and in Birmingham, and its neighbourhood, ...

Pembroke - Page 128
Julian, defcended ' from the carl of Pembroke, by a younger fon. The vivacity and impetnofity of his temper; his perfonal courage, ...

Carthago - Page 238
And then 11 delenda tfl Carthago." I accufe not thofe with whom I converie of ufini; this, or any other latin phrafe ; but you will fmile on being ...

Toulon - Page 239
firate itfelt- fo bitterly, as in the abhorrence with which they always tatiuion cor taking poflefficn of Toulon : " You gained it like traitors; ...

Stafford - Page 537
The fermon is, certainly, a fingular one, antt takes great freedoms with the worfhipful, the corporate body of Stafford. ...

Cayenne - Page 229
One day, laughing at a young man who came from, the neigh- bourhodil of Cayenne, he anfwered me in trench, faying, " My (kin, ' fir, is kept fcift, ...

Albany - Page 519
The regencic» of Robert, and Murdac, dukes of Albany, had been fertile in public »bufes: and the dilapidation of the royal lands and revenues, ...

Bari - Page 448
found near Bari in Apulia. From the decoration it appears, that arabefques with animal» ifluing out of foliage are more than 2000 yetn old, ...

Apulia - Page 448
found near Bari in Apulia. From the decoration it appears, that arabefques with animal» ifluing out of foliage are more than 2000 yetn old, ...

Bury - Page 548
After remaining fome time at Bath, this interefting family repaired to Bury, in Suffolk, and it was there they firft heard of the execrable maiTacres ...

Tiberias - Page 191
John fays, after fight <1ауь, hs appeared to them again, and again, after t befe things, he ftowed himielf at the fea o/ Tiberias, fixty or feventy ...

Lucca - Page 345
the ancient patrimony of Orbert (the Terra Ober- tenga) in the counties of Arezzo, Pifa, and Lucca, and the mar» tiage portion of his firft wife, ...

Nuremberg - Page 558
been a bohemian tranflation of Guido de Columna's Trojan Hiftory, in the year 1745, probably by fome german from Nuremberg, whofe ваше is not known. ...

Aix - Page 199
The prefident d'Al—was arrefted at Aix,» during the monarchy of Robefpierre. Upon being interro-gated about the concealment of 100000 crowns buried by ...

Lille - Page 357
Such was their want of forefight, that ti e bread was baked at Lille, ::n<! brought all the way thence, (•> a confiderablc diiiancc beyon. ...

Madras - Page 288
Anderfon, phyfician general to the ealt india company at Madras, bas exhibited а тегу laudable fpirit of induftry, in the introduction and extenñon of ...

Grenoble - Page 200
This is faid to be written by Servan, formerly preftdent of 'the parliament of Grenoble. ART, XKXIII. Coup d'Oeil falitiyuf fur les Pulßances neitlrei ...

Sheffield - Page 350
and the ¡oii£ and unbroken friendthip which fub« lifted between him and lord Sheffield, arc pleafing proofs, that he poflefled an rxcrlli-iit heart. ...

Hertford - Page 657
A Charge to the Grand Jury »t Hertford. By Mr. Juftice Crofe. 6d Stockdale An Fifty on Lord Crenville and Mr. Pitt's Bills. ...

Riga - Page 334
A Journey from Riga to Warfaw, through fouthern Pruffia, and through Breilaw, Drefden, Carllbad, Bayreuth, Nuremberg, Ratif- bonne, Munich, Saltzburg, ...
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Klagenfurt - Page 334
through fouthern Pruffia, and through Breilaw, Drefden, Carllbad, Bayreuth, Nuremberg, Ratif- bonne, Munich, Saltzburg, Lintz, Vienna, and Klagenfurt, ...

Livonia - Page 200
On the contrary, the iervitude of the people has been aggra« vated in Livonia and Little Ruflia. Defpotifm never conquer« but to-fubjugate, (hackle, ...

Surinam - Page 236
which fritt of blood is always divided between the fifcal anfl the proprietor of 'the deceafrd (lave ; it being a rule in Surinam, that by paying a ...
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Hobart - Page 289
In your firft letter of the above-named pamphlet, directed tç the right honourable lord Hobart, you fay thar, *' it is there (in China) that filk has ...

Olympia - Page 111
His laft in-quiries were at Olympia, where he difcovered the place in which the- greeks anciently aflembled, with all it's dependencies : and as he ...

Auckland - Page 18
D'Kernois, and lord Auckland, that the anni-hilation of the njjtgnais will produce that of the revolution, and the republic, and finally rcftorc peace ...

Saint-Pierre - Page 372
Saint-Pierre. Tranflated by Henry Hunter, DD Minifter of the Scots Church, London-Wall. In five Volumes. 8vo. 2016 pages. 5 plates. ...

Adelaide - Page 662
Durvil and Adelaide. By Catherin« Lara. izmo. fewed. Ridgway. Louis de Bone sur. By the fame, а тоЬ. izmoj fewed. ib. Adela Northington. ...