Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of LiteratureA. D. Worthington & Company, 1875 - 862 pages |
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... observations of the attrac tion of gravitation . - Early invention of rifling . - Table - moving and alphabet - rapping in the fourth century . - Robert Hook's intimations of the value of auscultation . - The stereoscope anticipated ...
... observations of the attrac tion of gravitation . - Early invention of rifling . - Table - moving and alphabet - rapping in the fourth century . - Robert Hook's intimations of the value of auscultation . - The stereoscope anticipated ...
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... observed the same severe ostracism against the letter R. Du Chat , in the " Ducatiana , " says " there are five novels in prose , of Lope de Vega , similarly avoiding the vowels ; the first without A , the second without E , the third ...
... observed the same severe ostracism against the letter R. Du Chat , in the " Ducatiana , " says " there are five novels in prose , of Lope de Vega , similarly avoiding the vowels ; the first without A , the second without E , the third ...
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... observations . In a conversation on the powers of the letter H , in which it was contended that it was no letter , but a simple aspiration or breathing , Rowland took the opposite side of the question , and insisted on its being , to ...
... observations . In a conversation on the powers of the letter H , in which it was contended that it was no letter , but a simple aspiration or breathing , Rowland took the opposite side of the question , and insisted on its being , to ...
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... observe good And a commendable It likewise teaches us how to be worthily Truly And without reserve It instils principles indisputably And forms in us a disposition And · It makes us , to things indifferent , To what is absolutely ...
... observe good And a commendable It likewise teaches us how to be worthily Truly And without reserve It instils principles indisputably And forms in us a disposition And · It makes us , to things indifferent , To what is absolutely ...
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... observe how fatiguing and indecorous it was for him to perform so long a journey on foot , like the commonest pilgrim . The Saint understood the drift of Old Nick's address , and commanded him immediately to become a beast of burden ...
... observe how fatiguing and indecorous it was for him to perform so long a journey on foot , like the commonest pilgrim . The Saint understood the drift of Old Nick's address , and commanded him immediately to become a beast of burden ...
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