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... rendered to the sciences services which will be recollected with gratitude by the latest posterity . CORRESPONDENCE . - FOR THE PORT FOLIO . MR . OLDSCHOOL . After acknowledging my sense of your honourable and flat- tering introduction ...
... rendered to the sciences services which will be recollected with gratitude by the latest posterity . CORRESPONDENCE . - FOR THE PORT FOLIO . MR . OLDSCHOOL . After acknowledging my sense of your honourable and flat- tering introduction ...
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... render my works more excellent but more durable by the friendly aid of chemistry . After having perfected the catalogue of durable colours , I could not subdue the desire of discovering a more certain method of employing them to produce ...
... render my works more excellent but more durable by the friendly aid of chemistry . After having perfected the catalogue of durable colours , I could not subdue the desire of discovering a more certain method of employing them to produce ...
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... rendered crude and uninteresting to a common , and to a classical ear , vapid and offensive ; though decorated occasionally with the most brilliant ornaments of language , and communicated with all the dignity and expression of chaste ...
... rendered crude and uninteresting to a common , and to a classical ear , vapid and offensive ; though decorated occasionally with the most brilliant ornaments of language , and communicated with all the dignity and expression of chaste ...
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... rendered peculiarly interesting ; and at the same time to deprecate their censure by suggesting any reasons in extenuation of its imperfection . In doing this , however , the speaker should be brief , perspicuous , modest , and explicit ...
... rendered peculiarly interesting ; and at the same time to deprecate their censure by suggesting any reasons in extenuation of its imperfection . In doing this , however , the speaker should be brief , perspicuous , modest , and explicit ...
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... rendered , unnecessary , and of course confirmation is thereby rendered so , that properly consisting of arguments brought in defence of the proposition . Hence Cicero defines confirmation to be " that which gives proof , authority ...
... rendered , unnecessary , and of course confirmation is thereby rendered so , that properly consisting of arguments brought in defence of the proposition . Hence Cicero defines confirmation to be " that which gives proof , authority ...
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| Title | The Port Folio, Volume 5 Volumes 40-42; Volumes 220-227 of American periodical series, 1800-1850 |
| Contributors | Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins, John Elihu Hall |
| Publisher | Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1811 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 11 Apr 2019 |
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