The Quarterly Review, Volumes 263-264William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1934 |
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... centuries which a brief extract from a French medical treatise affords us . ' Towards the middle of the eighteenth century the Abbé Nollet , a clever physicist , fascinated the world with his experiments with the Leyden electric jar ...
... centuries which a brief extract from a French medical treatise affords us . ' Towards the middle of the eighteenth century the Abbé Nollet , a clever physicist , fascinated the world with his experiments with the Leyden electric jar ...
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... century have been held to describe a purely mechanical and completely unspiritual view of the universe . During the present century , it is true , the whole ' classical ' conception of nature founded by Newton has been re - interpreted ...
... century have been held to describe a purely mechanical and completely unspiritual view of the universe . During the present century , it is true , the whole ' classical ' conception of nature founded by Newton has been re - interpreted ...
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... Century ' ( Murray ) , was a century of contradictions in every department of social life . Prosperity and poverty in the extreme with degradation were close neighbours . It was in some re- spects a great period . It cradled the future ...
... Century ' ( Murray ) , was a century of contradictions in every department of social life . Prosperity and poverty in the extreme with degradation were close neighbours . It was in some re- spects a great period . It cradled the future ...
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