The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik]. Continuation |
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... employed an artist to make for him out of a certain quantity of gold , was composed partly of some inferior metal . The weight was the same with that of the gold , but the bulk was apparently too great . The question really was merely ...
... employed an artist to make for him out of a certain quantity of gold , was composed partly of some inferior metal . The weight was the same with that of the gold , but the bulk was apparently too great . The question really was merely ...
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... employed , all crystallized substances of the same species might be reduced to the same primitive form . This idea he pursued with exceeding ingenuity ; till , by means not only of his unparal- leled dexterity , in the dissection of ...
... employed , all crystallized substances of the same species might be reduced to the same primitive form . This idea he pursued with exceeding ingenuity ; till , by means not only of his unparal- leled dexterity , in the dissection of ...
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... employed in the first instance as assistant in the kitchen of Exeter College , in which society he remained till he gradually made his way to a fellowship . The father of INIGO JONES , the great architect , who built the Banquet ...
... employed in the first instance as assistant in the kitchen of Exeter College , in which society he remained till he gradually made his way to a fellowship . The father of INIGO JONES , the great architect , who built the Banquet ...
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... employed to copy precedents . LINNÆUS , the founder of modern Botany , although the son of a Swedish clergy- man , and himself originally intended for holy orders , was , from his neglect of his theological studies , about to be taken ...
... employed to copy precedents . LINNÆUS , the founder of modern Botany , although the son of a Swedish clergy- man , and himself originally intended for holy orders , was , from his neglect of his theological studies , about to be taken ...
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... employed . His brother , we are informed by Sir Everard Home , his earliest biographer , gave him an arm to dissect , so as to display the muscles , with directions how it should be done ; and the performance of the pupil , even in this ...
... employed . His brother , we are informed by Sir Everard Home , his earliest biographer , gave him an arm to dissect , so as to display the muscles , with directions how it should be done ; and the performance of the pupil , even in this ...
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