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... principal works Dr. Ainsworth has work- " The Natural History of the United States . " Two volumes of this work , which is to extend to ten , have been already published . The book is executed upon a grand and comprehen- sive scale ...
... principal works Dr. Ainsworth has work- " The Natural History of the United States . " Two volumes of this work , which is to extend to ten , have been already published . The book is executed upon a grand and comprehen- sive scale ...
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... principal treatises on the Council of the Great Exhibition of scientific subjects are the article in the 1851 , his services were invaluable , and Penny Cyclopædia , on " Gravitation , " to his exertions the nation is indebted his ...
... principal treatises on the Council of the Great Exhibition of scientific subjects are the article in the 1851 , his services were invaluable , and Penny Cyclopædia , on " Gravitation , " to his exertions the nation is indebted his ...
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... principal of that university , can attest he gained universal respect and esteem among all his teachers and all his fellow- pupils . I will only add that , soon after leaving Edinburgh , upon a late occasion in last May , I found that ...
... principal of that university , can attest he gained universal respect and esteem among all his teachers and all his fellow- pupils . I will only add that , soon after leaving Edinburgh , upon a late occasion in last May , I found that ...
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... principal Copenhagen to seek his fortunes in any contributors to the " Globe , " and the position which accident might open out " Revue Française , " established by Gui- to him . Like many other geniuses , he zot to oppose the ...
... principal Copenhagen to seek his fortunes in any contributors to the " Globe , " and the position which accident might open out " Revue Française , " established by Gui- to him . Like many other geniuses , he zot to oppose the ...
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... principal vaudevillistes of the the more congenial field of astronomical day . He wrote incessantly for years , science . His progress was such that in his pieces being , with very few excep- 1822 he was appointed assistant in the tions ...
... principal vaudevillistes of the the more congenial field of astronomical day . He wrote incessantly for years , science . His progress was such that in his pieces being , with very few excep- 1822 he was appointed assistant in the tions ...
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Page 316 - In 1870 he received the honorary degree of DCL from the University of Oxford. In...
Page 255 - History of Latin Christianity ; including that of the Popes to the Pontificate of Nicholas V.
Page 81 - In 1837 he was called to the House of Lords, on the death of his father. The great fortune to which he became heir he employed in improving the condition of his regiment. He acquired a good deal of notoriety in connexion with the "black bottle...
Page 18 - He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.
Page 84 - Geometry," to which he prefixed an "Essay on Proportion," and also published his translation of Goethe's " Wilhelm Meister," a work which betrayed a direction of reading destined to influence materially his future career. On the completion of this translation he commenced his