The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen221A. Constable, 1915 |
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Página 246 - All the reformations we have hitherto made, have proceeded upon the principle of reference to antiquity : and I hope, nay, I am persuaded, that all those which possibly may be made hereafter, will be carefully formed upon, analogical precedent, authority, and example.
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