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... Lectures is Inso BY THE AUTHOR AS A MARK OF PERSONAL ESTEEM AND AS A TESTIMONY TO HIS EMINENT SCIENTIFIC ATTA DISTINGUISHED SERVICES IN THE PROMOTION AND EXTENSION OF USEFUL KNOWI first series o mation for F sent volum papers not.
... Lectures is Inso BY THE AUTHOR AS A MARK OF PERSONAL ESTEEM AND AS A TESTIMONY TO HIS EMINENT SCIENTIFIC ATTA DISTINGUISHED SERVICES IN THE PROMOTION AND EXTENSION OF USEFUL KNOWI first series o mation for F sent volum papers not.
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... author had some misgivings as to the strength of the internal flues to resist a force tending to collapse them . In these experiments it was found that flues of 35 feet long were distorted with considerably less of steam , and from a VI ...
... author had some misgivings as to the strength of the internal flues to resist a force tending to collapse them . In these experiments it was found that flues of 35 feet long were distorted with considerably less of steam , and from a VI ...
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... authors , such as Addison , Hume , and Goldsmith of the last century , and Scott , Prescott , and Macaulay of this . In addition , he may enrich his mind with some of our best poets , begin- ning with Shakspeare , Burns , and Byron ...
... authors , such as Addison , Hume , and Goldsmith of the last century , and Scott , Prescott , and Macaulay of this . In addition , he may enrich his mind with some of our best poets , begin- ning with Shakspeare , Burns , and Byron ...
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... Author of Nature has supplied us with a power which properly applied changes the destinies of nations , and confers unheard of benefits upon the human race . We have it at command in every department of human effort , and in every ...
... Author of Nature has supplied us with a power which properly applied changes the destinies of nations , and confers unheard of benefits upon the human race . We have it at command in every department of human effort , and in every ...
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... author placed a notice of certain experiments which he had conducted at the re- quest of the Royal Society and the ... author's own experiments on collapse are more fully stated ; and the rules for proportioning vessels to resist an ...
... author placed a notice of certain experiments which he had conducted at the re- quest of the Royal Society and the ... author's own experiments on collapse are more fully stated ; and the rules for proportioning vessels to resist an ...
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