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... common - place book a few me- moranda in regard to Beer . BERE is an Anglo - Saxon word for barley , fo that we have not far to go for its etymology . Indeed they who are beft skilled in the analogy that exifts among the languages in ...
... common - place book a few me- moranda in regard to Beer . BERE is an Anglo - Saxon word for barley , fo that we have not far to go for its etymology . Indeed they who are beft skilled in the analogy that exifts among the languages in ...
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... common to moft finall animals when their own life or that of their young is in danger . There are other accounts which cannot be called exaggerations , for , having been built on a ralle foundation , they are found to be wholly ...
... common to moft finall animals when their own life or that of their young is in danger . There are other accounts which cannot be called exaggerations , for , having been built on a ralle foundation , they are found to be wholly ...
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... common House- Beetle which he kept three years without food , and which the whole time appeared frong and vigorous ( except that in cold weather it feemed more torpid ) but though it appeared to be kept alive merely by air , Mr. Baker ...
... common House- Beetle which he kept three years without food , and which the whole time appeared frong and vigorous ( except that in cold weather it feemed more torpid ) but though it appeared to be kept alive merely by air , Mr. Baker ...
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... common ; and how uncandid is it to affert , upon mere furmife , that at this juncture they are vying with each other in giving the only proof of ingra- titude towards this country that is in their power ? Of what is paffing in France ...
... common ; and how uncandid is it to affert , upon mere furmife , that at this juncture they are vying with each other in giving the only proof of ingra- titude towards this country that is in their power ? Of what is paffing in France ...
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... common in the Wolga.- The fale of caviar may produce abo 50,000 roubles ; and that of ifingla more than 80,000 ditto . The mouths the rivers Oby and Jenifei abound lik wife in this fort of fish . The exportatio of fifh - oil , which ...
... common in the Wolga.- The fale of caviar may produce abo 50,000 roubles ; and that of ifingla more than 80,000 ditto . The mouths the rivers Oby and Jenifei abound lik wife in this fort of fish . The exportatio of fifh - oil , which ...
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