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... manufacture which comes to boys by a kind of instinct . We all remember , during " map days , " how the india - rubber , too often called into requisition , grew hot and crumbled , and as the pieces broke off , how they found their way ...
... manufacture which comes to boys by a kind of instinct . We all remember , during " map days , " how the india - rubber , too often called into requisition , grew hot and crumbled , and as the pieces broke off , how they found their way ...
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... manufacture of springs . What is the nature of the chemical change which takes place when this final increment of heat is applied is entirely unknown , and the discovery itself was one of those fortunate accidents which have so often ...
... manufacture of springs . What is the nature of the chemical change which takes place when this final increment of heat is applied is entirely unknown , and the discovery itself was one of those fortunate accidents which have so often ...
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... manufactured in Birmingham . Mr. Smith , like Napoleon , is too great a genius to be in the slightest degree influenced by the incon- venience his schemes cause to others ; nay , he even calculates upon that inconvenience and trouble as ...
... manufactured in Birmingham . Mr. Smith , like Napoleon , is too great a genius to be in the slightest degree influenced by the incon- venience his schemes cause to others ; nay , he even calculates upon that inconvenience and trouble as ...
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... manufactured manures have been active in throwing discredit upon the idea , and have been equally active in despatching fleets to the other side of the globe to fetch guano , and factories have been arising on every hand to mix composts ...
... manufactured manures have been active in throwing discredit upon the idea , and have been equally active in despatching fleets to the other side of the globe to fetch guano , and factories have been arising on every hand to mix composts ...
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... manufactured to hand in the best possible form , are not only con- clusive of the ignorance which obtains with respect to the proper method of using it , but of its inherent worth . If town - sewage can be made a paying com- modity ...
... manufactured to hand in the best possible form , are not only con- clusive of the ignorance which obtains with respect to the proper method of using it , but of its inherent worth . If town - sewage can be made a paying com- modity ...
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