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... law . It is not easy , indeed , to name many pursuits , of which the inutility is so clearly made out , that they may be parted with without regret , or without disturbing the good order and arrangements of society . Some that at a ...
... law . It is not easy , indeed , to name many pursuits , of which the inutility is so clearly made out , that they may be parted with without regret , or without disturbing the good order and arrangements of society . Some that at a ...
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... laws of chemical action have been examined and ascertained with great accuracy , and can now be demonstrated with as much clearness and facility , as any of the laws , which belong to mechanical philosophy . It has become emi- nently a ...
... laws of chemical action have been examined and ascertained with great accuracy , and can now be demonstrated with as much clearness and facility , as any of the laws , which belong to mechanical philosophy . It has become emi- nently a ...
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... law , except when some luckless inventor has been driven into a tedious lawsuit by an infringement of his patent , and has found his money melt away under its dissolving power . Half a century ago the composition of the atmosphere and ...
... law , except when some luckless inventor has been driven into a tedious lawsuit by an infringement of his patent , and has found his money melt away under its dissolving power . Half a century ago the composition of the atmosphere and ...
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... law and divinity . The study of pure and mixed mathematics succeeded ; and astronomy , as it deserved , absorbed all the attention and genius , which were not devoted to literature . But scholars of all sorts , by general consent ...
... law and divinity . The study of pure and mixed mathematics succeeded ; and astronomy , as it deserved , absorbed all the attention and genius , which were not devoted to literature . But scholars of all sorts , by general consent ...
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... estab- lished professions of law , physic , and divinity , to become the votaries , nay the enthusiastic votaries , of the arts . And arts . we are beginning to realize the first effects of this 16 STORY'S DISCOURSE .
... estab- lished professions of law , physic , and divinity , to become the votaries , nay the enthusiastic votaries , of the arts . And arts . we are beginning to realize the first effects of this 16 STORY'S DISCOURSE .
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