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... natural order Cordiacea , the timber of which is valuable ; also to Hamelia ven- tricosa , of the natural order ... nature as the light caused by electricity streaming off from points connected with an electrical machine . See ELEC ...
... natural order Cordiacea , the timber of which is valuable ; also to Hamelia ven- tricosa , of the natural order ... nature as the light caused by electricity streaming off from points connected with an electrical machine . See ELEC ...
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... nature of embalming may be judged from the numerous mmmies in the different museums of Europe . Other less successful means were used by nations of antiquity to embalm . The Persians employed wax ; the Assyrians , honey ; the Jews ...
... nature of embalming may be judged from the numerous mmmies in the different museums of Europe . Other less successful means were used by nations of antiquity to embalm . The Persians employed wax ; the Assyrians , honey ; the Jews ...
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... nature are used on a great scale in Holland . See DYKE . EMBER DAYS - EMBLEMENTS . punishable offence . In particular. a locomotive . The cost of earthwork naturally varies greaty with the nature of the strata in which the cutting has to ...
... nature are used on a great scale in Holland . See DYKE . EMBER DAYS - EMBLEMENTS . punishable offence . In particular. a locomotive . The cost of earthwork naturally varies greaty with the nature of the strata in which the cutting has to ...
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... nature , and which looks upon him as simply a living that kind of Theism which separates God from Spiritual Personality . He will not recognise a God who is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain . ' In regard to man and ...
... nature , and which looks upon him as simply a living that kind of Theism which separates God from Spiritual Personality . He will not recognise a God who is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain . ' In regard to man and ...
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... nature , each ultimate fact of the human consciousness which one must find from his own experience ; it is an cannot be resolved into anything more fundamental , although , as will be seen , we can lay down the laws that connect it with ...
... nature , each ultimate fact of the human consciousness which one must find from his own experience ; it is an cannot be resolved into anything more fundamental , although , as will be seen , we can lay down the laws that connect it with ...
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Page 27 - ... days are the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, after the feast of Pentecost, after the 14th September, and after the 13th December. The term 'embering...
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