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If it ever becomes necessary to speak of myself , I cannot do it directly . I love to make a little enigma of the thing , by means of collateral kints and oblique references . For this reason I have ever extolled the celebrated answer ...
If it ever becomes necessary to speak of myself , I cannot do it directly . I love to make a little enigma of the thing , by means of collateral kints and oblique references . For this reason I have ever extolled the celebrated answer ...
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... drove him to excellent means of satisfying his thirst for knowledge , and enabled him to become more familiarly acquainted with astronomy and all other branches of the science of mathematics as 8 LIFE OF LAMBERT .
... drove him to excellent means of satisfying his thirst for knowledge , and enabled him to become more familiarly acquainted with astronomy and all other branches of the science of mathematics as 8 LIFE OF LAMBERT .
Pagina 20
The author next observes , “ It may perhaps be urged in objection to the truth of the assertion that air does not possess the qualities of fixation ; that whenever it becomes one of the component parts of a natural body , it is in that ...
The author next observes , “ It may perhaps be urged in objection to the truth of the assertion that air does not possess the qualities of fixation ; that whenever it becomes one of the component parts of a natural body , it is in that ...
Pagina 21
perhaps be said with propriety , that when the principles constituting air become solid , or a part of a solid , they cease to be air . It is however well understood , that by the phrase fixation of air , the idea is conveyed of the ...
perhaps be said with propriety , that when the principles constituting air become solid , or a part of a solid , they cease to be air . It is however well understood , that by the phrase fixation of air , the idea is conveyed of the ...
Pagina 30
... a sand bank , " till its sterility has become proverbial , and no cther idea of its naked plains is cuterine upon the ricighboring cortincnt , than that they form a l ! ce , or 2 s ? erm.cn. to dry their riots on .
... a sand bank , " till its sterility has become proverbial , and no cther idea of its naked plains is cuterine upon the ricighboring cortincnt , than that they form a l ! ce , or 2 s ? erm.cn. to dry their riots on .
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