The Quarterly Journal of Science and the Arts, Volume 5John Murray, 1818 - Science |
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... nearly similar to that which originally pro- duced but one web . Mr. Mersey's new process for weaving coach and livery lace is also highly worthy of notice , as producing a fabric from the same materials , which far exceeds in beauty ...
... nearly similar to that which originally pro- duced but one web . Mr. Mersey's new process for weaving coach and livery lace is also highly worthy of notice , as producing a fabric from the same materials , which far exceeds in beauty ...
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... nearly useless in furnishing principles for the guidance of mankind in their various deal- ings , and almost every civil transaction requires a decree for its explanation . The latter is not , perhaps , gaining in its purity , though ...
... nearly useless in furnishing principles for the guidance of mankind in their various deal- ings , and almost every civil transaction requires a decree for its explanation . The latter is not , perhaps , gaining in its purity , though ...
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... nearly in the centre of the inclosed ground : its resemblance to the impres- sion of a human foot is very rude indeed . It is an oblong , five feet four inches long , and two feet seven inches wide in the widest part , which is over the ...
... nearly in the centre of the inclosed ground : its resemblance to the impres- sion of a human foot is very rude indeed . It is an oblong , five feet four inches long , and two feet seven inches wide in the widest part , which is over the ...
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... nearly exhausted state in which we found our- selves when we arrived . The country , between the foot of Adam's Peak and Co- lombo , is interesting to the traveller ; it exhibits fine mountain scenery , that brought to my recollection ...
... nearly exhausted state in which we found our- selves when we arrived . The country , between the foot of Adam's Peak and Co- lombo , is interesting to the traveller ; it exhibits fine mountain scenery , that brought to my recollection ...
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... nearly horizontal direction , while that of Mr. Lee's works in a vertical one . I have never , till lately , paid much attention to the operation of dressing flax ; but having had occasion to notice that sub- ject in my Lectures at the ...
... nearly horizontal direction , while that of Mr. Lee's works in a vertical one . I have never , till lately , paid much attention to the operation of dressing flax ; but having had occasion to notice that sub- ject in my Lectures at the ...
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