The Royal Institution: Its Founder and Its First ProfessorsLongmans, Green, 1871 - 431 páginas |
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... attended . A note - book made by him about this time still exists . It abounds in caricatures . Has receipts for ... attend Mr. Winthrop's lectures on Experimental Philosophy . In the winter of 1771-2 for some weeks he was teaching ...
... attended . A note - book made by him about this time still exists . It abounds in caricatures . Has receipts for ... attend Mr. Winthrop's lectures on Experimental Philosophy . In the winter of 1771-2 for some weeks he was teaching ...
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... attended with unhappy consequences , as my innocence would have stood me in no stead against the prejudices of an enraged , infatuated multitude , and much less against the determined villany of my inveterate enemies , who strive to ...
... attended with unhappy consequences , as my innocence would have stood me in no stead against the prejudices of an enraged , infatuated multitude , and much less against the determined villany of my inveterate enemies , who strive to ...
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... attend my Pilgrimage in unknown lands , destitute of fortune , friends , and acquaintance , yet all these Evils appear to me more tolerable than the treat- ment which I meet with from the hands of my ungrateful countrymen . ' I am too ...
... attend my Pilgrimage in unknown lands , destitute of fortune , friends , and acquaintance , yet all these Evils appear to me more tolerable than the treat- ment which I meet with from the hands of my ungrateful countrymen . ' I am too ...
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... attending to the firing of heavy cannon ; for though we were not fortunate enough to come to a general action with the enemy , as is well known , yet , as the men were frequently exercised at the great guns and in firing at marks , and ...
... attending to the firing of heavy cannon ; for though we were not fortunate enough to come to a general action with the enemy , as is well known , yet , as the men were frequently exercised at the great guns and in firing at marks , and ...
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... attend to his clothing commission . He soon after left England in the ' Rotterdam , ' a fifty - gun ship , for New York , but con- trary winds compelled him to disembark at Charlestown ( South Carolina ) . In his paper on Gunpowder he ...
... attend to his clothing commission . He soon after left England in the ' Rotterdam , ' a fifty - gun ship , for New York , but con- trary winds compelled him to disembark at Charlestown ( South Carolina ) . In his paper on Gunpowder he ...
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