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... authority . That Homer was a close observer of appearance as correlated with character is shown in his description of Thersites and elsewhere . Hippocrates , writing about 450 B.C. , refers to this subject , but not in 39 1 The Act 39 ...
... authority . That Homer was a close observer of appearance as correlated with character is shown in his description of Thersites and elsewhere . Hippocrates , writing about 450 B.C. , refers to this subject , but not in 39 1 The Act 39 ...
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... authority for chiromancy , and other chiro- mantists have followed him in so doing.9 of genius and stupidity , of timidity , impudence , anger , | stantinus , 7 are other early authors frequently quoted by and their opposites , & c ...
... authority for chiromancy , and other chiro- mantists have followed him in so doing.9 of genius and stupidity , of timidity , impudence , anger , | stantinus , 7 are other early authors frequently quoted by and their opposites , & c ...
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... authority for this practice in Mersenne , who , in 1636 , expressly describes it as occurring in his own spinet ( espinette ) . He says the keyboards of the spinet and organ are the same . Now , in his Latin edition of the same work he ...
... authority for this practice in Mersenne , who , in 1636 , expressly describes it as occurring in his own spinet ( espinette ) . He says the keyboards of the spinet and organ are the same . Now , in his Latin edition of the same work he ...
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... authority , always bearing in mind that neither invalidates the other . The intro- duction of crow - quill points , and adaptation to an oblong case of an instrument previously in a trapeze form , are synchronous ; but we must accept ...
... authority , always bearing in mind that neither invalidates the other . The intro- duction of crow - quill points , and adaptation to an oblong case of an instrument previously in a trapeze form , are synchronous ; but we must accept ...
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... authority we can refer to as to the introduction of the latter instrument into England . He tells us , in his gossiping He tells us , 1 in his gossiping way , that the first hammer harpsichord that came to England was made by an English ...
... authority we can refer to as to the introduction of the latter instrument into England . He tells us , in his gossiping He tells us , 1 in his gossiping way , that the first hammer harpsichord that came to England was made by an English ...
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