Edinburgh Magazine: Or Literary Miscellany, Volume 19J. Sibbald, 1802 |
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... honour , will ever be remembered by mathemati- cians with gratitude and triumph . His difcoveries concerning the cause of colours , and the different refrangi- bility of the rays of light , formed a new epoch in optical fcience . Be ...
... honour , will ever be remembered by mathemati- cians with gratitude and triumph . His difcoveries concerning the cause of colours , and the different refrangi- bility of the rays of light , formed a new epoch in optical fcience . Be ...
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... honour of his difcoveries , he conducted himself in a fimilar manner , and never har- boured in his bofom that malice and revenge nor difplayed in his writings that virulence and invective , which are too often the attendants of genius ...
... honour of his difcoveries , he conducted himself in a fimilar manner , and never har- boured in his bofom that malice and revenge nor difplayed in his writings that virulence and invective , which are too often the attendants of genius ...
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... honour the memory of the phi lofopher in which all these perfec- TH tions centered , let us conform our lives to his conduct , -let us imitate him as a philofopher , as a man , and as a Chriftian . It was on this day that the infant ...
... honour the memory of the phi lofopher in which all these perfec- TH tions centered , let us conform our lives to his conduct , -let us imitate him as a philofopher , as a man , and as a Chriftian . It was on this day that the infant ...
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... honour the highest stations which his Sovereign could beftow , was fe- lected as the British negociator at Amiens . His reception in France has been worthy the dignity of his perfonal character , and of his exalted office ; and the news ...
... honour the highest stations which his Sovereign could beftow , was fe- lected as the British negociator at Amiens . His reception in France has been worthy the dignity of his perfonal character , and of his exalted office ; and the news ...
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... honour , will be bar- tered or compromifed . It will not furely be denied , that independently of the islands of Ceylon and Trini- dad , which we have acquired by the war , our extended and flourishing do- minions in the eaft , added to ...
... honour , will be bar- tered or compromifed . It will not furely be denied , that independently of the islands of Ceylon and Trini- dad , which we have acquired by the war , our extended and flourishing do- minions in the eaft , added to ...
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Page 345 - This whole fabric hung, as it were, by a large tree, which reclined from the one end, all along the roof to the other, and which gave it the name of the Cage ; and by chance there happened to be two stones at a small distance from one another, in the side next the precipice, resembling the pillars of a chimney, where the fire was placed.
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