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... Steel Engravings . 3s . 6d . Bohn's Historical Library . UNIFORM WITH THE STANDARD LIBRARY , AT 5s . PER VOLUME . Evelyn's Diary and Correspondence . Illustrated with numerous Portraits , & c . In 4 vols . Pepys ' Diary and ...
... Steel Engravings . 3s . 6d . Bohn's Historical Library . UNIFORM WITH THE STANDARD LIBRARY , AT 5s . PER VOLUME . Evelyn's Diary and Correspondence . Illustrated with numerous Portraits , & c . In 4 vols . Pepys ' Diary and ...
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... Steel . In 6 vols . Burke's Works . In 6 Volumes . Vol . 1. Vindication of Natural Society , On the Sublime and Beautiful , and Political Miscellanies . Vol . 2. French Revolution , & c . Vol . 3. Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs ...
... Steel . In 6 vols . Burke's Works . In 6 Volumes . Vol . 1. Vindication of Natural Society , On the Sublime and Beautiful , and Political Miscellanies . Vol . 2. French Revolution , & c . Vol . 3. Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs ...
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... Steel , from designs by himself , the Letterpress by the BARONESS DE CARABELLA . China , Pictorial , Descriptive , and Historical , with some Account of Ava and the Burmese , Siam , and Anam . Nearly 100 Illustrations . Craik's ( G. L. ) ...
... Steel , from designs by himself , the Letterpress by the BARONESS DE CARABELLA . China , Pictorial , Descriptive , and Historical , with some Account of Ava and the Burmese , Siam , and Anam . Nearly 100 Illustrations . Craik's ( G. L. ) ...
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... steel , actively send forth its sparks , not much inferiorly unto a flint . Now such bodies as strike fire , as have sulphureous or ignitable parts within such bodies as rock - crystal and the precious stones contained sulphur , might ...
... steel , actively send forth its sparks , not much inferiorly unto a flint . Now such bodies as strike fire , as have sulphureous or ignitable parts within such bodies as rock - crystal and the precious stones contained sulphur , might ...
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... steel as merely another mode of describing the combustible nature of the metal , his explanation is perfectly correct , and in accordance with the results of modern chemical discovery : the oxygen in the air " preys upon " the metal ...
... steel as merely another mode of describing the combustible nature of the metal , his explanation is perfectly correct , and in accordance with the results of modern chemical discovery : the oxygen in the air " preys upon " the metal ...
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Page xxxviii - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions, hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Page 348 - And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Page 31 - Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, and saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down ; for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Page 433 - So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.