Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Volume 97Pub. for J. Hinton., 1795 |
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... perhaps are more noted than the groups of fir Thomas More's family , but very good reasons have been affigned for fuppofing , that though the heads were sketched by Holbein , the pictures were finished by an inferior artif . Among other ...
... perhaps are more noted than the groups of fir Thomas More's family , but very good reasons have been affigned for fuppofing , that though the heads were sketched by Holbein , the pictures were finished by an inferior artif . Among other ...
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... perhaps to deter mine . The following paragraph from a newfpaper of that day , affords a prefumption that the had been refident in the neighbourhood : We hear , that madam Ellen Gwyn's mother , fitting lately by the water - fide at her ...
... perhaps to deter mine . The following paragraph from a newfpaper of that day , affords a prefumption that the had been refident in the neighbourhood : We hear , that madam Ellen Gwyn's mother , fitting lately by the water - fide at her ...
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... af- fumed different phases . The fun it- felf has been called a globe of fire , though perhaps metaphorically . The B wafte it would undergo by a gradual be found that FOR JULY , 1795 On the NATURE and CONSTRUCTION of the SUN and FIXED ...
... af- fumed different phases . The fun it- felf has been called a globe of fire , though perhaps metaphorically . The B wafte it would undergo by a gradual be found that FOR JULY , 1795 On the NATURE and CONSTRUCTION of the SUN and FIXED ...
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... perhaps appearance of a globe , will feem to more fatisfactorily , be accounted for be a large concave portion of a hol- from the real difference of the extent , low fphere . As foon as , by the force the arrangement , the height , and ...
... perhaps appearance of a globe , will feem to more fatisfactorily , be accounted for be a large concave portion of a hol- from the real difference of the extent , low fphere . As foon as , by the force the arrangement , the height , and ...
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... perhaps , be readily taken up by all who are deeply converfant in anci- ent hiftory ; and by fuch perfons a conclufion will be drawn , that the pre- fent age has but few pretences to ori- ginality ; that every virtue , vice , whim , and ...
... perhaps , be readily taken up by all who are deeply converfant in anci- ent hiftory ; and by fuch perfons a conclufion will be drawn , that the pre- fent age has but few pretences to ori- ginality ; that every virtue , vice , whim , and ...
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