Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volume 29

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Metcalf and Company, 1894
Vol. 12 (from May 1876 to May 1877) includes: Researches in telephony / by A. Graham Bell.
 

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Página 422 - Very far from being a popular author under my own name, so far, indeed, as to be almost unread, I found the verses of my pseudonym copied everywhere: I saw them pinned up in workshops ; I heard them quoted and their authorship debated...
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Página 427 - Class of 1830. lu his Senior year he was also Principal of the Waterville Academy, and served one year as Tutor in the College. He then began the study of law in the office of his uncle, Samuel S. Warren, and continued it with William Clark, of Hallowell, and then for one year in the Law School of Harvard University...
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