Willis's Current Notes: A Series of Articles on Antiquities, Biography, Heraldry, History, Language, Literature, Natural History, Topography, &c. Selected from Original Letters and Documents Addressed During the Year ... to the PublisherG. Willis, 1855 |
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... true , that he was apt to fly into it with the well known story of the dog , that threw down a passion with those around him , as I could not reconcile the candle , and burned his manuscript , the labour of years , and yet he only ...
... true , that he was apt to fly into it with the well known story of the dog , that threw down a passion with those around him , as I could not reconcile the candle , and burned his manuscript , the labour of years , and yet he only ...
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... true I discovered more of the skeleton of this bird than was previously known , but not a perfect skeleton . I have also described the bones of two nearly allied species , which I found with the bones of the Dodo . My paper upon this ...
... true I discovered more of the skeleton of this bird than was previously known , but not a perfect skeleton . I have also described the bones of two nearly allied species , which I found with the bones of the Dodo . My paper upon this ...
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... true knowledge of some of the Jewish doctrines , customs , and ceremonies were accu- rately noted by the Chinese . For the sake of brevity , I will mention one word only in proof of my assertion , viz .: sen , 3 , ( in the second series ...
... true knowledge of some of the Jewish doctrines , customs , and ceremonies were accu- rately noted by the Chinese . For the sake of brevity , I will mention one word only in proof of my assertion , viz .: sen , 3 , ( in the second series ...
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... true history of such events , as from length of time have been so cor- rupted by glosses , as scarcely to leave a trace of their original meaning , even to those professing to be perfectly conversant with their intricacies . We may thus ...
... true history of such events , as from length of time have been so cor- rupted by glosses , as scarcely to leave a trace of their original meaning , even to those professing to be perfectly conversant with their intricacies . We may thus ...
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... true origin of the which the monetary art and excellence of Greece ex- name ? I have received a letter offering a very inge - tended ; and of every age , from the earliest known spe- nious solution of the difficulty that considering it ...
... true origin of the which the monetary art and excellence of Greece ex- name ? I have received a letter offering a very inge - tended ; and of every age , from the earliest known spe- nious solution of the difficulty that considering it ...
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Page 6 - And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.
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Page 45 - ... letters, in the same manner as the hours of the day are marked upon the ordinary dial-plate. They then fixed one of the needles on each of these plates in such a manner that it could move round without impediment, so as to touch any of the four and twenty letters.
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