A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest: With Numerous Specimens, Volume 2Charles Griffin & Company, 1871 - English language |
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... Society The Steam - Engine Other Discoveries and Improvements in Natural and Experimental Science Newton • James Gregory , and other Contemporaries of Newton PAGH • 136 143 145 · 148 • · 151 · 157 · € 169 · · 172 176 . 178 181 · 183 ...
... Society The Steam - Engine Other Discoveries and Improvements in Natural and Experimental Science Newton • James Gregory , and other Contemporaries of Newton PAGH • 136 143 145 · 148 • · 151 · 157 · € 169 · · 172 176 . 178 181 · 183 ...
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... Society ; Democracy 66 66 66 པ 66 66 66 - · Thoughts on the Present Discontents ; House of Commons . . 339 Speech at Bristol ( 1780 ) ; Penal Laws against Roman Catholics 341 Speech on Nabob of Arcot ; Devastation of the Carnatic ...
... Society ; Democracy 66 66 66 པ 66 66 66 - · Thoughts on the Present Discontents ; House of Commons . . 339 Speech at Bristol ( 1780 ) ; Penal Laws against Roman Catholics 341 Speech on Nabob of Arcot ; Devastation of the Carnatic ...
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... Epnemeris of the Berlin Royal Society of Sciences for 1788 . VOL . II . 19 tion of Horrocks's posthumous papers which he published at Lon- Other English Mathematicians of the Earlier Part of the Seventeenth Century 19.
... Epnemeris of the Berlin Royal Society of Sciences for 1788 . VOL . II . 19 tion of Horrocks's posthumous papers which he published at Lon- Other English Mathematicians of the Earlier Part of the Seventeenth Century 19.
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... SOCIETY . SUCH were the notions in science which prevailed , probably among the generality even of persons of education and reading , in England at the date of the incorporation and first public estab- lishment of the Royal Society ...
... SOCIETY . SUCH were the notions in science which prevailed , probably among the generality even of persons of education and reading , in England at the date of the incorporation and first public estab- lishment of the Royal Society ...
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... society similar to the London one was now established in that city , which was joined by Dr. Seth Ward , then ... society met at first in Dr. Petty's lodgings , in the house of an apothecary , whose boxes and phials furnished them with ...
... society similar to the London one was now established in that city , which was joined by Dr. Seth Ward , then ... society met at first in Dr. Petty's lodgings , in the house of an apothecary , whose boxes and phials furnished them with ...
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