The British Critic: A New Review, Volume 19F. and C. Rivington, 1812 - English literature |
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... principles of chemistry 469 British volunteers , addrefs to the 656 Britton's beauties of England and Wales 265 of Wiltshire 576 - Brochant , traité élémentaire de mineralogie 548 Brugnatelli , fynonymie des no- menclatures chémiques mo ...
... principles of chemistry 469 British volunteers , addrefs to the 656 Britton's beauties of England and Wales 265 of Wiltshire 576 - Brochant , traité élémentaire de mineralogie 548 Brugnatelli , fynonymie des no- menclatures chémiques mo ...
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... on animal magnetifm 420 Wood's principles of mechanics - Vieillot's hiftoire naturelle des grimpereaux fucriers , & c . 208 Vince on fluxions 394 Vincent's defence of public edu- cation , remarks on 483 Y. CONTENTS .
... on animal magnetifm 420 Wood's principles of mechanics - Vieillot's hiftoire naturelle des grimpereaux fucriers , & c . 208 Vince on fluxions 394 Vincent's defence of public edu- cation , remarks on 483 Y. CONTENTS .
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... principles , demand our prefent notice ; the one is Briffon's Principles of Chemistry , lately tranflated ; and the other , Mr. Wood's Treatife on thole of Mechanics ; both works very inftructive to ftudents , as uniting perfpicuity ...
... principles , demand our prefent notice ; the one is Briffon's Principles of Chemistry , lately tranflated ; and the other , Mr. Wood's Treatife on thole of Mechanics ; both works very inftructive to ftudents , as uniting perfpicuity ...
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... principles of Materialifm require ; but merely the re- ceptacles , or magazines of light previously made . 4. The atmofphere was not produced by vapours exhaled from the chaos by the fun's heat . For the atmosphere was made before the ...
... principles of Materialifm require ; but merely the re- ceptacles , or magazines of light previously made . 4. The atmofphere was not produced by vapours exhaled from the chaos by the fun's heat . For the atmosphere was made before the ...
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... principles we laid down , in defending the literal fenfe of the preceding Chapter , every thing elfe must be allegorical , if the ferpent be an allegorical perfonage . But to this we anfwer , first , that the ferpent was no alle- gory ...
... principles we laid down , in defending the literal fenfe of the preceding Chapter , every thing elfe must be allegorical , if the ferpent be an allegorical perfonage . But to this we anfwer , first , that the ferpent was no alle- gory ...
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