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... Numerous Illustrations . Fourth Edition . Crown 8vo . cloth , 4s . THE AQUARIUM : Its Inhabitants , Structure , and Management . By J. E. TAYLOR , F.L.S. , F.G.S. With 238 Woodcuts . Crown Svo . cloth extra , 6s . THE MICROSCOPE : a ...
... Numerous Illustrations . Fourth Edition . Crown 8vo . cloth , 4s . THE AQUARIUM : Its Inhabitants , Structure , and Management . By J. E. TAYLOR , F.L.S. , F.G.S. With 238 Woodcuts . Crown Svo . cloth extra , 6s . THE MICROSCOPE : a ...
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... numerous and costly . They were sold at the Reformation , together with the The notorious William Dowsing has recorded in his Journal that he ' brake down thirty superstitious pictures , and gave orders for taking down the rest , which ...
... numerous and costly . They were sold at the Reformation , together with the The notorious William Dowsing has recorded in his Journal that he ' brake down thirty superstitious pictures , and gave orders for taking down the rest , which ...
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... numerous audience in the last year of his life , or at all events when eighty years old . I will close this paper with a few lines quoted from C. Knight's ' Tourist's Companion ' : - ' Of all the decayed old towns we have seen along the ...
... numerous audience in the last year of his life , or at all events when eighty years old . I will close this paper with a few lines quoted from C. Knight's ' Tourist's Companion ' : - ' Of all the decayed old towns we have seen along the ...
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... numerous and ample , and a portion of the charity estate has of late years been increased in value by the South - Eastern Railway passing through it . Sixteen brothers and sisters have each an annual pension of 487. per annum . The ...
... numerous and ample , and a portion of the charity estate has of late years been increased in value by the South - Eastern Railway passing through it . Sixteen brothers and sisters have each an annual pension of 487. per annum . The ...
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... numerous to mention here ; among those in the chancel is a large stone robbed of its brasses , which commemorated the deaths of the Man- wood family ; also , a monument of stone much de- faced , with the figures of a man and a woman ...
... numerous to mention here ; among those in the chancel is a large stone robbed of its brasses , which commemorated the deaths of the Man- wood family ; also , a monument of stone much de- faced , with the figures of a man and a woman ...
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