Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Volume 24Devonshire Press, 1892 - Devon (England) List of members in each volume. |
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... Rev. W. HARPLEY , Clayhanger Rectory , Tiverton , not later than 16th January , 1893 , a list of any errata they may have detected in the present volume . 2-18-28 36722 CONTENTS . List of Officers Places of Meeting [ 2 ]
... Rev. W. HARPLEY , Clayhanger Rectory , Tiverton , not later than 16th January , 1893 , a list of any errata they may have detected in the present volume . 2-18-28 36722 CONTENTS . List of Officers Places of Meeting [ 2 ]
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... present . The Board of Guardians and the County Council , while they have not diminished my old interest in the condition of our people in former ages , have imperatively demanded that I should give greater attention to the present ...
... present . The Board of Guardians and the County Council , while they have not diminished my old interest in the condition of our people in former ages , have imperatively demanded that I should give greater attention to the present ...
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... present century , in deference perhaps to the Hebrew law against numbering the people . Many persons appear to have believed that the population was constantly diminishing . Henry VIII . lamented that his kingdom could no longer supply ...
... present century , in deference perhaps to the Hebrew law against numbering the people . Many persons appear to have believed that the population was constantly diminishing . Henry VIII . lamented that his kingdom could no longer supply ...
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... present century , it has been impossible for any writer to maintain the general depopulation of England . The fears and lamentations have generally been on the other side , that the population in- creased so much faster than the means ...
... present century , it has been impossible for any writer to maintain the general depopulation of England . The fears and lamentations have generally been on the other side , that the population in- creased so much faster than the means ...
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... present , as compared with former times ? is a question that is not very easy to answer . There are few subjects on which so much nonsense has been talked or written . I met with a paragraph in a newspaper , given as a quotation from a ...
... present , as compared with former times ? is a question that is not very easy to answer . There are few subjects on which so much nonsense has been talked or written . I met with a paragraph in a newspaper , given as a quotation from a ...
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