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... learned Foreigners who are the Authors of new Differtations , or other curious Papers , published in the MEMOIRS and TRANSACTIONS of the Scientific ACADEMIES on the Continent , and alfo for the Titles of those Differtations , & c ...
... learned Foreigners who are the Authors of new Differtations , or other curious Papers , published in the MEMOIRS and TRANSACTIONS of the Scientific ACADEMIES on the Continent , and alfo for the Titles of those Differtations , & c ...
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... learned from the exercife of our fenfes , or may immediately learn . The fame thing muft needs be equally true of every other elementary author . ' Dr. Beddoes next proceeds to apply the principle which he has ad- vanced to the folution ...
... learned from the exercife of our fenfes , or may immediately learn . The fame thing muft needs be equally true of every other elementary author . ' Dr. Beddoes next proceeds to apply the principle which he has ad- vanced to the folution ...
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... learned by the exercise of the fenfes , too much pains cannot be taken , at the commencement of the ftudy of geometry , to fatisfy the mind of the learner by appealing to his fenfes . The more diftin & t and deep the impreffions of ...
... learned by the exercise of the fenfes , too much pains cannot be taken , at the commencement of the ftudy of geometry , to fatisfy the mind of the learner by appealing to his fenfes . The more diftin & t and deep the impreffions of ...
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... learned his geometry in this way , let him be affured that he holds his proficiency by a firm tenure . În this fcience there is no tranfcendental road ; but I imagine a royal road might be ftruck out , though Euclid was of a different ...
... learned his geometry in this way , let him be affured that he holds his proficiency by a firm tenure . În this fcience there is no tranfcendental road ; but I imagine a royal road might be ftruck out , though Euclid was of a different ...
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... learned author of the book on Rhythm would , in one place , divide the intermediate long fyllable in a manner which I avow myfelf incapable of exactly comprehending t ; and , in another , elide the first fyllable t , as the Dorians ...
... learned author of the book on Rhythm would , in one place , divide the intermediate long fyllable in a manner which I avow myfelf incapable of exactly comprehending t ; and , in another , elide the first fyllable t , as the Dorians ...
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