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... continued in action , till there is fcarce any water remaining in its cavity ? It is plain , then , that we cannot attribute it to the air which was contained therein . We muft therefore feek the cause in the water reduced to a vapour ...
... continued in action , till there is fcarce any water remaining in its cavity ? It is plain , then , that we cannot attribute it to the air which was contained therein . We muft therefore feek the cause in the water reduced to a vapour ...
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... continued this experiment for more than half an hour . I was defirous of knowing if this difference was occa- fioned by the matter in the fmall vessel not having acquired a fufficient de- gree of heat , but the thermometer fhewed me ...
... continued this experiment for more than half an hour . I was defirous of knowing if this difference was occa- fioned by the matter in the fmall vessel not having acquired a fufficient de- gree of heat , but the thermometer fhewed me ...
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... continued for a long time , till one day , when the Proveditore was alone with his fon Francifco , and obferving a fine fcymiter by his fide , he asked him , how he came by it ? To which he answered , it was a prefent from Mon- talto ...
... continued for a long time , till one day , when the Proveditore was alone with his fon Francifco , and obferving a fine fcymiter by his fide , he asked him , how he came by it ? To which he answered , it was a prefent from Mon- talto ...
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... continued ill for feveral days , and the concern that this gave Sophronia , made Julio guefs at their fentiments for each other . He took the first op- portunity of speaking to Sophronia , and , without expecting a confeffion , told her ...
... continued ill for feveral days , and the concern that this gave Sophronia , made Julio guefs at their fentiments for each other . He took the first op- portunity of speaking to Sophronia , and , without expecting a confeffion , told her ...
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... continued . With a fine Head of General Lambert . The fight at firft was pretty obftinate ; but , as the King had five thoufand , and Poyntz only two thoufand men , Poyntz was brifkly repulfed and put into great diforder . Mean while ...
... continued . With a fine Head of General Lambert . The fight at firft was pretty obftinate ; but , as the King had five thoufand , and Poyntz only two thoufand men , Poyntz was brifkly repulfed and put into great diforder . Mean while ...
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