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... Discovery , into the South Sea and Beh- ring's Straits , in 1815- 1818 , by Otto Von Kot- zebue W. Waddington , G. Esq . and the Rev. Barnard Han- bury , Journal of a Visit to some Parts of Ethio- pia ...... Walpole , Earl of Orford ...
... Discovery , into the South Sea and Beh- ring's Straits , in 1815- 1818 , by Otto Von Kot- zebue W. Waddington , G. Esq . and the Rev. Barnard Han- bury , Journal of a Visit to some Parts of Ethio- pia ...... Walpole , Earl of Orford ...
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... discovery was the work of a landsman would have been highly becoming in a profession , of which intre- pidity and valour are not more characteristic than frankness and generosity . 66 There is in the same volume , which contains the ...
... discovery was the work of a landsman would have been highly becoming in a profession , of which intre- pidity and valour are not more characteristic than frankness and generosity . 66 There is in the same volume , which contains the ...
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... discovery of the whole chain , it seems , was a matter of some difficulty . By means , however , of the bearings , as given in Dr. Hutton's paper , and the assistance of one of the guides who had been employed in the former survey , our ...
... discovery of the whole chain , it seems , was a matter of some difficulty . By means , however , of the bearings , as given in Dr. Hutton's paper , and the assistance of one of the guides who had been employed in the former survey , our ...
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... discovery of oil painting by this artist is well known to even the smatterers in virtù ; and we think that Mr. James has adopted the safest , if not the only probable opinion on this disputed point . Van Eyck , as Horace Walpole and ...
... discovery of oil painting by this artist is well known to even the smatterers in virtù ; and we think that Mr. James has adopted the safest , if not the only probable opinion on this disputed point . Van Eyck , as Horace Walpole and ...
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... discovery must have been assisted , and the labours of inven- tion ultimately facilitated . In many instances which might be pointed out in the works of Euclid , Aristotle , and Archi- medes , we find a species of knowledge which ...
... discovery must have been assisted , and the labours of inven- tion ultimately facilitated . In many instances which might be pointed out in the works of Euclid , Aristotle , and Archi- medes , we find a species of knowledge which ...
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