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... doubt , that they may be used with great advantage in reading hiftory . The Biographical Chart , particularly , is a very ingenious and ufeful invention . We are surprised that no notice is taken , in this place , of Play- fair's ...
... doubt , that they may be used with great advantage in reading hiftory . The Biographical Chart , particularly , is a very ingenious and ufeful invention . We are surprised that no notice is taken , in this place , of Play- fair's ...
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... doubt , is employed , and thereby industry is encouraged ; but it is only that kind of induftry which raifes the price of confumable goods . If any man , or any nation , fhould give all their property in this manner , they would ...
... doubt , is employed , and thereby industry is encouraged ; but it is only that kind of induftry which raifes the price of confumable goods . If any man , or any nation , fhould give all their property in this manner , they would ...
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... doubt as to the truth of the general re- prefentation bere given of the character of the Portuguese nation , and of the contracted genius and illiberal maxims of their go- vernment . Much pains have evidently been taken to give us a ...
... doubt as to the truth of the general re- prefentation bere given of the character of the Portuguese nation , and of the contracted genius and illiberal maxims of their go- vernment . Much pains have evidently been taken to give us a ...
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... doubt- lefs , extremely intricate ; and much time , a long feries of ac- curate experiments , and the most minute obfervations , are per- haps ftill requifite to complete the investigation of the nature of this fubtle principle . Few ...
... doubt- lefs , extremely intricate ; and much time , a long feries of ac- curate experiments , and the most minute obfervations , are per- haps ftill requifite to complete the investigation of the nature of this fubtle principle . Few ...
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... doubt have rectified the difpofition of his mineralogical fyftem . " The claffes of minerals remain the fame as in the original work , viz . ft Earths , 2d Salts , 3d Inflammables , and 4th Metals . The first class was divided into nine ...
... doubt have rectified the difpofition of his mineralogical fyftem . " The claffes of minerals remain the fame as in the original work , viz . ft Earths , 2d Salts , 3d Inflammables , and 4th Metals . The first class was divided into nine ...
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