The Annual Biography and Obituary, Band 14Longman., 1830 |
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... directed fire and compact order of our line . He then endeavoured to round the van ship , to engage to leeward , and thereby place us between two fires ; but was so warmly received in the attempt , and rendered so totally unmanage- able ...
... directed fire and compact order of our line . He then endeavoured to round the van ship , to engage to leeward , and thereby place us between two fires ; but was so warmly received in the attempt , and rendered so totally unmanage- able ...
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... directed by Colonel Robertson to act on this coast . From the information I received from Captain Harper of the Saracen , together with the state of the country about Cattaro , and the insurrection of the Bocchese , I lost no time in ...
... directed by Colonel Robertson to act on this coast . From the information I received from Captain Harper of the Saracen , together with the state of the country about Cattaro , and the insurrection of the Bocchese , I lost no time in ...
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... directed such energies to the advancement of a science which requires for its successful cultivation all the aids of novel and bold , and yet patient and accurate , research , is one of those fortunate coincidences to which the world is ...
... directed such energies to the advancement of a science which requires for its successful cultivation all the aids of novel and bold , and yet patient and accurate , research , is one of those fortunate coincidences to which the world is ...
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... directed to the study of mineralogy and chemistry , when we consider the nature and scenery of the country in which accident had planted him . Many of his friends and associates must have been connected with mining speculations ; shafts ...
... directed to the study of mineralogy and chemistry , when we consider the nature and scenery of the country in which accident had planted him . Many of his friends and associates must have been connected with mining speculations ; shafts ...
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... directed for his welfare by a presiding genius , whose activity in throwing circumstances in his way was rivalled only by the energy and address with which he converted them to his purpose . The experiments to which we have alluded ...
... directed for his welfare by a presiding genius , whose activity in throwing circumstances in his way was rivalled only by the energy and address with which he converted them to his purpose . The experiments to which we have alluded ...
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Seite 395 - And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the Word of His grace, Which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
Seite 133 - Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Multi, sed omnes illacrymabiles Urgentur, ignotique longa Nocte, carent quia vate sacro.
Seite 160 - Time made thee what thou wast, king of the woods ; And time hath made thee what thou art — a cave For owls to roost in.
Seite 268 - Thoughts on the English Government — addressed to the quiet good sense of the people of England...
Seite 201 - Essays on the Lives and Writings of Fletcher of Saltoun and the Poet Thomson: Biographical, critical, and political.
Seite 47 - ... in a state of intense activity ; and a platina wire, communicating with the positive side, was brought in contact with the upper surface of the alkali. The whole apparatus was in the open atmosphere.
Seite 50 - In sciences kindred to chemistry, the knowledge of the nature of the alkalies, and the analogies arising in consequence, will open many new views; they may lead to the solution of many problems in geology, and shew that agents may have operated in the formation of rocks and earths which have not hitherto been suspected to exist.
Seite 144 - For the repeated thanks and grants bestowed upon you by this house, in gratitude for your many and eminent services, you have thought fit this day to offer us your acknowledgments; but this nation well knows that it is still largely your debtor. It owes to you the proud satisfaction, that amidst the constellation of illustrious warriors, who have recently visited our country...
Seite 63 - The Bakerian Lecture, on some of the Combinations of Oxymuriatic Gas and Oxygen, and on the Chemical Relations of these Principles to inflammable Bodies.