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... England , might have supplied some material anecdotes , and that further information might have been procured from his companions in West- minster Hall , or on the circuit ; but my researches have had little success , and I am chiefly ...
... England , might have supplied some material anecdotes , and that further information might have been procured from his companions in West- minster Hall , or on the circuit ; but my researches have had little success , and I am chiefly ...
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... England , and imme- diately afterwards established himself as a teacher of mathematics , in London , where , at the age of twenty- six , he published his Synopsis Palmariorum Mathescos ; a decisive proof of his early and consummate ...
... England , and imme- diately afterwards established himself as a teacher of mathematics , in London , where , at the age of twenty- six , he published his Synopsis Palmariorum Mathescos ; a decisive proof of his early and consummate ...
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... England ; and , although he was more diverted with the simplicity of the Latin style , than attracted by the subject , he felt so much interest in the work , as to sudy it with consider- able attention . In the course of the reflections ...
... England ; and , although he was more diverted with the simplicity of the Latin style , than attracted by the subject , he felt so much interest in the work , as to sudy it with consider- able attention . In the course of the reflections ...
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... England . The secretary of state , with whom the Danish minister had conversed upon the subject , sent the volume to Mr. Jones , request- ing him to give a literal translation of it , in the French language ; but he wholly declined the ...
... England . The secretary of state , with whom the Danish minister had conversed upon the subject , sent the volume to Mr. Jones , request- ing him to give a literal translation of it , in the French language ; but he wholly declined the ...
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... a Treatise on Oriental Poetry , in the language of the translation ; and I may venture to assert , that Mr. Jones was the * See Works , vol . v . Preface . only person in England , at that time , capable 42 MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF.
... a Treatise on Oriental Poetry , in the language of the translation ; and I may venture to assert , that Mr. Jones was the * See Works , vol . v . Preface . only person in England , at that time , capable 42 MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF.
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