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... treated lacework , hair and jewellery with exquisite precision . Isaac Oliver ( 1560 ? -1617 ) is the best - known portraitist of the reign of James I ; his subjects are drawn in profile and occasionally portrayed in a natural landscape ...
... treated lacework , hair and jewellery with exquisite precision . Isaac Oliver ( 1560 ? -1617 ) is the best - known portraitist of the reign of James I ; his subjects are drawn in profile and occasionally portrayed in a natural landscape ...
Page 192
... treat bodies as if all mass were concentrated at the centre ; thus bodies can be treated as points for purposes of calculation . The planets are similar to tops , spinning , but attracted by other masses of matter ; gravity makes ...
... treat bodies as if all mass were concentrated at the centre ; thus bodies can be treated as points for purposes of calculation . The planets are similar to tops , spinning , but attracted by other masses of matter ; gravity makes ...
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... treated even the possession and circulation of satires in manuscript as libellous and treasonable . It was not until ... treated in an epic fashion , pretentious ideas are treated in a low diction . Hudibras transforms the seventeenth ...
... treated even the possession and circulation of satires in manuscript as libellous and treasonable . It was not until ... treated in an epic fashion , pretentious ideas are treated in a low diction . Hudibras transforms the seventeenth ...
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