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... present to your Ladyship the MEMOIRS of the LIFE of SIR WILLIAM JONES ; and it will afford me the sincerest pleasure to know that the expectations which induced you to request me to undertake this work have not been disappointed by the ...
... present to your Ladyship the MEMOIRS of the LIFE of SIR WILLIAM JONES ; and it will afford me the sincerest pleasure to know that the expectations which induced you to request me to undertake this work have not been disappointed by the ...
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... present of their pedigree ; which was in order , I presume , to keep up a friendship among relations , which these people preserved surprisingly , and do to this day among the meanest of them , to the sixth and seventh degree . Some ...
... present of their pedigree ; which was in order , I presume , to keep up a friendship among relations , which these people preserved surprisingly , and do to this day among the meanest of them , to the sixth and seventh degree . Some ...
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... obtained the friendship , of Lord Anson . In his twenty - second year , Mr. Jones published a Trea- tise on the Art of Navigation , which was received with 1 great approbation . He was present at the capture SIR WILLIAM JONES . 3.
... obtained the friendship , of Lord Anson . In his twenty - second year , Mr. Jones published a Trea- tise on the Art of Navigation , which was received with 1 great approbation . He was present at the capture SIR WILLIAM JONES . 3.
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John Shore Baron Teignmouth. 1 great approbation . He was present at the capture of Vigo , in 1702 , and having joined his comrades in quest of pillage , he eagerly fixed upon a bookseller's shop , as the object of his depredation ; but ...
John Shore Baron Teignmouth. 1 great approbation . He was present at the capture of Vigo , in 1702 , and having joined his comrades in quest of pillage , he eagerly fixed upon a bookseller's shop , as the object of his depredation ; but ...
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... present , only M. Demoire's Treatise on Chances , which makes a whole transac- tion . He is very fond of it , and we expect it well done . Mr. Raphson has printed off four or five sheets of his History of Fluxions , but being shewed Sir ...
... present , only M. Demoire's Treatise on Chances , which makes a whole transac- tion . He is very fond of it , and we expect it well done . Mr. Raphson has printed off four or five sheets of his History of Fluxions , but being shewed Sir ...
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