Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, a New Edition; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations-Lexicon, Volume 13Francis Lieber Lea & Blanchard, 1851 |
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... Natural Magic ( London , 1832 ) . Illusions are often also produced by the appearance of objects imperfectly seen in a dim light , and by electric phenome- na , when the credulous and terrified ob- server sees , or thinks he sees ...
... Natural Magic ( London , 1832 ) . Illusions are often also produced by the appearance of objects imperfectly seen in a dim light , and by electric phenome- na , when the credulous and terrified ob- server sees , or thinks he sees ...
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... natural division of words is shown to cease with syllables : they are one sound , and the division into vowels and consonants , ingenious and use- ful as it is , does not , in fact , exist to the degree which we usually take for granted ...
... natural division of words is shown to cease with syllables : they are one sound , and the division into vowels and consonants , ingenious and use- ful as it is , does not , in fact , exist to the degree which we usually take for granted ...
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... natural Spanish , that every body ascribed them to Lope de Vega . He also visited Rome and England , and died in 1648. Voiture was one of the first persons in France dis- tinguished by the title of bel esprit . He wrote verses in French ...
... natural Spanish , that every body ascribed them to Lope de Vega . He also visited Rome and England , and died in 1648. Voiture was one of the first persons in France dis- tinguished by the title of bel esprit . He wrote verses in French ...
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... natural sov- ereignty of the intellect , and its superiori- ty to all earthly splendor , it was this dis- tinguished man , who , in a nation , and at a time , when the learned and scientific were considered in the light of upper do ...
... natural sov- ereignty of the intellect , and its superiori- ty to all earthly splendor , it was this dis- tinguished man , who , in a nation , and at a time , when the learned and scientific were considered in the light of upper do ...
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... natural talents , acquired early reputation among the learned . At the age of twenty - one , he published an edition of the Periplus of Scylax , with a Latin version , and notes . Christina , queen of Sweden , invited him to Stock- holm ...
... natural talents , acquired early reputation among the learned . At the age of twenty - one , he published an edition of the Periplus of Scylax , with a Latin version , and notes . Christina , queen of Sweden , invited him to Stock- holm ...
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