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... respect which their general fame has excited . From whatever source this remark may have pro- ceded , or to whatever degree of truth it may be entitled , I cannot but express a solicitude , that it may derive no confirmation from the ...
... respect which their general fame has excited . From whatever source this remark may have pro- ceded , or to whatever degree of truth it may be entitled , I cannot but express a solicitude , that it may derive no confirmation from the ...
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... respect , Mr. Baker , author of a Treatise on the Improved Microscope , who afforded her important assistance , in arranging the collection of shells , fossils , and other curiosities , left by her deceased husband , and in disposing of ...
... respect , Mr. Baker , author of a Treatise on the Improved Microscope , who afforded her important assistance , in arranging the collection of shells , fossils , and other curiosities , left by her deceased husband , and in disposing of ...
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... respects , was eminently qualified for the task . Her character , as delineated by her husband , with somewhat of mathematical precision , A Tract of Logarithms . Account of a Person killed by Lightning , in Tottenham - court Chapel ...
... respects , was eminently qualified for the task . Her character , as delineated by her husband , with somewhat of mathematical precision , A Tract of Logarithms . Account of a Person killed by Lightning , in Tottenham - court Chapel ...
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... respect to reputation , I dare say it will be no way to your disadvantage . I have nothing of news to send you , only the Germans and French have in a violent man- ner attacked the philosophy of Sir Isaac Newton , and seem resolved to ...
... respect to reputation , I dare say it will be no way to your disadvantage . I have nothing of news to send you , only the Germans and French have in a violent man- ner attacked the philosophy of Sir Isaac Newton , and seem resolved to ...
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... respects , by sending them . I need not tell you the occasion and design of that collection . You will see readily , that it affords such light concerning what it relates to , as could not easily have been discovered any other way ; it ...
... respects , by sending them . I need not tell you the occasion and design of that collection . You will see readily , that it affords such light concerning what it relates to , as could not easily have been discovered any other way ; it ...
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