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... Academy , and of the Cambridge Philo- sophical Society , besides being associated with the chief scientific societies of Europe and America . He has been a voluminous author . His " Reflections on the Decline of Science in England ...
... Academy , and of the Cambridge Philo- sophical Society , besides being associated with the chief scientific societies of Europe and America . He has been a voluminous author . His " Reflections on the Decline of Science in England ...
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... Academy , of Edward Baines , " his father ; " A men . Visit to the Vaudois of Piedmont ; " " The Woollen Manufactures of Eng- land ; " and some minor works . He is a Justice of the Peace and Deputy- Lieutenant for the West Riding of ...
... Academy , of Edward Baines , " his father ; " A men . Visit to the Vaudois of Piedmont ; " " The Woollen Manufactures of Eng- land ; " and some minor works . He is a Justice of the Peace and Deputy- Lieutenant for the West Riding of ...
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... Academy , and formerly a peer of France , He had inherited a considerable fortune was born at Riom , in Auvergne , on 10th from his father , and he had thus ample June , 1782. After studying in the leisure to devote his attention to the ...
... Academy , and formerly a peer of France , He had inherited a considerable fortune was born at Riom , in Auvergne , on 10th from his father , and he had thus ample June , 1782. After studying in the leisure to devote his attention to the ...
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... Academy . Among the most remarkable In June of that year he was promoted of his books is his " Mathematical and to be Joint - Secretary of the Treasury , Philosophical Dictionary , " which at the but resigned with the ministry on King ...
... Academy . Among the most remarkable In June of that year he was promoted of his books is his " Mathematical and to be Joint - Secretary of the Treasury , Philosophical Dictionary , " which at the but resigned with the ministry on King ...
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... Academy , New York , and at various schools in Canada . On leaving school at eighteen , and after filling several mercantile situations and taking a pro- minent place in promoting literature and science in Rhode Island , he removed , in ...
... Academy , New York , and at various schools in Canada . On leaving school at eighteen , and after filling several mercantile situations and taking a pro- minent place in promoting literature and science in Rhode Island , he removed , in ...
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