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... discovered , in 1752 and 1764 , that the Greenlanders and Efkimaux Indians were but one nation , and that they spoke a fimilar language , they gradually form- ed among the latter ( whofe dwellings are fcattered over a coaft about feven ...
... discovered , in 1752 and 1764 , that the Greenlanders and Efkimaux Indians were but one nation , and that they spoke a fimilar language , they gradually form- ed among the latter ( whofe dwellings are fcattered over a coaft about feven ...
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... discovery of the Kurile Ifle the Aleutic , and thofe called the Fo Iflands , is of incalculable importance f commerce , in refpect of their valuab peltry ; thefe iflands fwarm with foxe zibelines , or fables , hares , & c . In 178 a ...
... discovery of the Kurile Ifle the Aleutic , and thofe called the Fo Iflands , is of incalculable importance f commerce , in refpect of their valuab peltry ; thefe iflands fwarm with foxe zibelines , or fables , hares , & c . In 178 a ...
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... discovery , th the village of Catholic - Hennerfdorff w full of the enemy's troops ; fent infta information to his fovereign of the nece fity there was to prepare for actio made a diftribution of the force he h with him , that was ...
... discovery , th the village of Catholic - Hennerfdorff w full of the enemy's troops ; fent infta information to his fovereign of the nece fity there was to prepare for actio made a diftribution of the force he h with him , that was ...
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... discovered , in a Treatise by the rhetorician Apfines , a paffage which , upon comparing it with the Notes of John of Sicily upon Ariftides , he found to be that portion which relates to the hiftorical invention of the Work of Longinus ...
... discovered , in a Treatise by the rhetorician Apfines , a paffage which , upon comparing it with the Notes of John of Sicily upon Ariftides , he found to be that portion which relates to the hiftorical invention of the Work of Longinus ...
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... discovered another new planet . The Chinese characters , cut in wood , which had lain above fixty years in the National Library at Paris , have been lately transferred to the Printing Office of the Republic , for the use of Dr. HAGAR ...
... discovered another new planet . The Chinese characters , cut in wood , which had lain above fixty years in the National Library at Paris , have been lately transferred to the Printing Office of the Republic , for the use of Dr. HAGAR ...
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Page 347 - The natural proofs of a future state appear to be so much invalidated by the rejection of a separate principle, the seat of thought, which may escape from the perishing body to which it is temporarily united, that he seemed to have been employed in demolishing one of the great pillars upon which religion is founded. It is enough here to observe, that in Dr Priestley's mind, the deficiency of these natural proofs only operated as an additional argument in favour of revelation ; the necessity of which,...
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