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... may not have its use in practical affairs ? * 198 . Whether even those parts of academical learning which are quite forgotten may not have improved and enriched the soil , like those vegetables which are raised THE QUERIST . 133 198.
... may not have its use in practical affairs ? * 198 . Whether even those parts of academical learning which are quite forgotten may not have improved and enriched the soil , like those vegetables which are raised THE QUERIST . 133 198.
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George Berkeley. enriched the soil , like those vegetables which are raised , not for themselves , but ploughed in for a dressing of land ? 199. Whether it was not an Irish professor who first opened the public schools at Oxford ...
George Berkeley. enriched the soil , like those vegetables which are raised , not for themselves , but ploughed in for a dressing of land ? 199. Whether it was not an Irish professor who first opened the public schools at Oxford ...
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... vegetables depend on light as much as colours . Analogy between the specific qualities of vegetable juices and colours . A fine subtile spirit , the distinguishing principle of all tables What the principle of vegetation , and how ...
... vegetables depend on light as much as colours . Analogy between the specific qualities of vegetable juices and colours . A fine subtile spirit , the distinguishing principle of all tables What the principle of vegetation , and how ...
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... vegetable balsam . 9. Tar was by the ancients esteemed good against poisons , ulcers , the bites of venomous ... vegetables . Mr. Evelyn , in his treatise on " Forest Trees , " observes with wonder , that stems of trees , smeared over ...
... vegetable balsam . 9. Tar was by the ancients esteemed good against poisons , ulcers , the bites of venomous ... vegetables . Mr. Evelyn , in his treatise on " Forest Trees , " observes with wonder , that stems of trees , smeared over ...
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... vegetables are the same in turpentine and common tar . In effect , this vulgar tar , which cheapness and plenty may have rendered contemptible , appears to be an excellent balsam , containing the virtues of most other balsams ; which it ...
... vegetables are the same in turpentine and common tar . In effect , this vulgar tar , which cheapness and plenty may have rendered contemptible , appears to be an excellent balsam , containing the virtues of most other balsams ; which it ...
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Page 388 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
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