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... four- teen lines on Bacon . See Ditto , ditto . " Tacitus . " Vit . Agric . , cap . 44 . Ditto , p . xxxiii . note . Solomon's House . p . 296. seqq . of the vol . of the Standard Library . Ditto , p . xxxiv . note . Paterculus , i . 17 ...
... four- teen lines on Bacon . See Ditto , ditto . " Tacitus . " Vit . Agric . , cap . 44 . Ditto , p . xxxiii . note . Solomon's House . p . 296. seqq . of the vol . of the Standard Library . Ditto , p . xxxiv . note . Paterculus , i . 17 ...
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... four emblematical plates , rather below the average of their time . As so secondary a town as Nuremberg had at least three academies , we may infer that such in- p . 229. , that Mr. Hayward's note was not 16 [ No. 166 . NOTES AND ...
... four emblematical plates , rather below the average of their time . As so secondary a town as Nuremberg had at least three academies , we may infer that such in- p . 229. , that Mr. Hayward's note was not 16 [ No. 166 . NOTES AND ...
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... four to thirty - six hours after excitement , and I have seen good pictures pro- duced upon the third day . I believe it is a rule which admits of no contradiction , that the more you dilute your solution , the longer the excited paper ...
... four to thirty - six hours after excitement , and I have seen good pictures pro- duced upon the third day . I believe it is a rule which admits of no contradiction , that the more you dilute your solution , the longer the excited paper ...
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... four ounces , and add to it 650 grains of iodide of potassium , which should re - dissolve the precipitated iodide of silver , and form a perfectly clear solution ; but if not , a little more must be carefully added , for this salt ...
... four ounces , and add to it 650 grains of iodide of potassium , which should re - dissolve the precipitated iodide of silver , and form a perfectly clear solution ; but if not , a little more must be carefully added , for this salt ...
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... four growing round a pit , was shattered by lightning about thirteen or fourteen years ago . A gentleman who has lived sixty years in the neighbourhood of the beech woods near Henley , tells me that he re- members three or four similar ...
... four growing round a pit , was shattered by lightning about thirteen or fourteen years ago . A gentleman who has lived sixty years in the neighbourhood of the beech woods near Henley , tells me that he re- members three or four similar ...
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