The Port Folio, Volume 5Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1811 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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... duty at least to show the result of an art so far brought to perfection in France , although my experiments were begun in America . All that has hitherto been done towards Encaustic painting has presented no other plan to the painter ...
... duty at least to show the result of an art so far brought to perfection in France , although my experiments were begun in America . All that has hitherto been done towards Encaustic painting has presented no other plan to the painter ...
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... duty to give it publicity in your journal . Meanwhile , wishing you all imaginable success in your learned and in your lounging moods , I am your constant friend , X. Y. FOR THE PORT FOLLIÓ . Remarks on an Essay on 18 SCIENCE .
... duty to give it publicity in your journal . Meanwhile , wishing you all imaginable success in your learned and in your lounging moods , I am your constant friend , X. Y. FOR THE PORT FOLLIÓ . Remarks on an Essay on 18 SCIENCE .
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... treachery , or committing unnecessary depreda- tions at Nantucket , whose peaceable inhabitants are to this day al- VOL . V. Ꮐ lowed an exemption from the oppressive routine of militia duty. DESCRIPTION OF NANTUCKET . 41.
... treachery , or committing unnecessary depreda- tions at Nantucket , whose peaceable inhabitants are to this day al- VOL . V. Ꮐ lowed an exemption from the oppressive routine of militia duty. DESCRIPTION OF NANTUCKET . 41.
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lowed an exemption from the oppressive routine of militia duty : but the harbour of Sherburne is mostly filled with ice every sea- son , and in the hard winter of 1780 , the surface of the sea was frozen over as far as the eye could ...
lowed an exemption from the oppressive routine of militia duty : but the harbour of Sherburne is mostly filled with ice every sea- son , and in the hard winter of 1780 , the surface of the sea was frozen over as far as the eye could ...
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... duty to introduce to my country- men every illustrious stranger , whenever I have the glorious op- portunity of being the gentleman usher on such an occasion . I understand to my astonishment that the genius and writings of a celebrated ...
... duty to introduce to my country- men every illustrious stranger , whenever I have the glorious op- portunity of being the gentleman usher on such an occasion . I understand to my astonishment that the genius and writings of a celebrated ...
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