The Port Folio, Volume 5Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1811 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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169-266 Inchiquin's letters , Criticism on , 301- Sketches in verse , Criticism on , 254–269 385 Science , 17-320 Irony , 372 Scenery , American , 325-449_465 * Vide Dr. Ferriar's Illustrations of Sterne , p .
169-266 Inchiquin's letters , Criticism on , 301- Sketches in verse , Criticism on , 254–269 385 Science , 17-320 Irony , 372 Scenery , American , 325-449_465 * Vide Dr. Ferriar's Illustrations of Sterne , p .
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... to the view of the Institute a Picture in Encaustic but I yield to the persuasion that it is niy duty at least to show the result of an art so far brought to perfection in France , alilough my experiments were begun in America .
... to the view of the Institute a Picture in Encaustic but I yield to the persuasion that it is niy duty at least to show the result of an art so far brought to perfection in France , alilough my experiments were begun in America .
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Since my early departure for America will deprive me of the advantages of the ensuing exposition at the saloon of the Louvre , I can do no more than thus to give a hasty view of the subject to the Institue .
Since my early departure for America will deprive me of the advantages of the ensuing exposition at the saloon of the Louvre , I can do no more than thus to give a hasty view of the subject to the Institue .
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... nobly distinguished , still persist in denominating a certain nautical instrument Hadley's Quadrant , though , as it is well known to a majority of your readers , the invention is challenged by an American , named Thomas Godfrey .
... nobly distinguished , still persist in denominating a certain nautical instrument Hadley's Quadrant , though , as it is well known to a majority of your readers , the invention is challenged by an American , named Thomas Godfrey .
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... improved these instruments , he has constructed nearly a thousand ; and several of them having been carried to India and America , the error has been found to correspond with what he determined it to be , before their departure .
... improved these instruments , he has constructed nearly a thousand ; and several of them having been carried to India and America , the error has been found to correspond with what he determined it to be , before their departure .
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