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... lectures , which are characterised by Wood as more moderately Calvinistic than those that had for some time previous been heard from the divinity chair . Yet he appears to have opposed himself to Laud and his opinions with quite as much ...
... lectures , which are characterised by Wood as more moderately Calvinistic than those that had for some time previous been heard from the divinity chair . Yet he appears to have opposed himself to Laud and his opinions with quite as much ...
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... lecturer on chemistry at the Royal Military Academy , Woolwich , in 1852. In 1854 he was appointed ordnance chemist ... lectures on the application of electricity to the explosion of land and submarine mines , and on the application of ...
... lecturer on chemistry at the Royal Military Academy , Woolwich , in 1852. In 1854 he was appointed ordnance chemist ... lectures on the application of electricity to the explosion of land and submarine mines , and on the application of ...
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... Lectures to Young Men , ' 1842 ; Anglo- Catholicism , ' & c . , in reply to Tracts for the Times , ' 1843 ... Lecture , ' : - 6 ALFARABIUS , the Latinized surname of a learned Arabian philosopher , who was born in Transoxiana in the 10th ...
... Lectures to Young Men , ' 1842 ; Anglo- Catholicism , ' & c . , in reply to Tracts for the Times , ' 1843 ... Lecture , ' : - 6 ALFARABIUS , the Latinized surname of a learned Arabian philosopher , who was born in Transoxiana in the 10th ...
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... lecturing on the sacred books and laws ; but eventually withdrew to the quieter town of Alusina ( probably the ... lectures in the University of Cambridge , which he published in 1842 , under the title of " The Divine Revelation of ...
... lecturing on the sacred books and laws ; but eventually withdrew to the quieter town of Alusina ( probably the ... lectures in the University of Cambridge , which he published in 1842 , under the title of " The Divine Revelation of ...
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... Lecture , and conferred on him the degree of of the academies for which Italy was then renowned . From D.D. For these ... Lectures in 1786 in 2 vols . 8vo , under commenced it in 1648 , and in 1678 , writing to J. Fiorelli , he the title ...
... Lecture , and conferred on him the degree of of the academies for which Italy was then renowned . From D.D. For these ... Lectures in 1786 in 2 vols . 8vo , under commenced it in 1648 , and in 1678 , writing to J. Fiorelli , he the title ...
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