The Port Folio, Volume 5Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1811 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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... course of the seasons where the wild misrule of equinoctial storm or northern tempest lowers over a land , that presents scarcely any thing to the traveller but prospects of barren waste and gloomy desolation . Another set of readers ...
... course of the seasons where the wild misrule of equinoctial storm or northern tempest lowers over a land , that presents scarcely any thing to the traveller but prospects of barren waste and gloomy desolation . Another set of readers ...
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... course to be pursued , in my speculations , I cannot say much . I anticipate a good deal of selfish gratification from my labours in the literary vineyard . I however promise nothing . It would be highly impolitic and improper to excite ...
... course to be pursued , in my speculations , I cannot say much . I anticipate a good deal of selfish gratification from my labours in the literary vineyard . I however promise nothing . It would be highly impolitic and improper to excite ...
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... course of his readings , to meet with an old work on mathematics , his decided predilection for this science manifested itself soon , in a most striking manner , by the ardour with which he studied it , and the complete know- ledge he ...
... course of his readings , to meet with an old work on mathematics , his decided predilection for this science manifested itself soon , in a most striking manner , by the ardour with which he studied it , and the complete know- ledge he ...
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... course of business , or because his being accustomed to analyse incapacitated him from discerning by intuition . His conduct exactly corresponded with his manner of think- ing . He proposed to himself certain rules , of the propriety ...
... course of business , or because his being accustomed to analyse incapacitated him from discerning by intuition . His conduct exactly corresponded with his manner of think- ing . He proposed to himself certain rules , of the propriety ...
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... far to repay me the labour it has cost , before I shall be permitted to make the mode of procedure known . REMBRANDT PEALE . Paris , September 3d . 1810 . THE USEFUL ARTS . In the course of a late. CORRESPONDENCE . 15.
... far to repay me the labour it has cost , before I shall be permitted to make the mode of procedure known . REMBRANDT PEALE . Paris , September 3d . 1810 . THE USEFUL ARTS . In the course of a late. CORRESPONDENCE . 15.
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