The Life of Sir Humphry Davy: Late President of the Royal Society Foreign Associate of the Royal Institute of FranceHenry Colburnan and Richard Bentley, 1831 - 547 pages |
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Page iii
... OBTAINED FROM FOREIGN AND HOSTILE NATIONS THE HOMAGE OF ADMIRATION AND THE MEED OF GRATITUDE , ARE , BY THE GRACIOUS PERMISSION OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS , DEDICATED WITH SENTIMENTS OF PROFOUND RESPECT , BY THE AUTHOR . PREFACE . THE ...
... OBTAINED FROM FOREIGN AND HOSTILE NATIONS THE HOMAGE OF ADMIRATION AND THE MEED OF GRATITUDE , ARE , BY THE GRACIOUS PERMISSION OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS , DEDICATED WITH SENTIMENTS OF PROFOUND RESPECT , BY THE AUTHOR . PREFACE . THE ...
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... air to other substances . The discoveries of Dr. Black on the subject of latent heat could never have obtained that celebrity they now enjoy , had not Mr. Watt availed himself of their application for the vi PREFACE .
... air to other substances . The discoveries of Dr. Black on the subject of latent heat could never have obtained that celebrity they now enjoy , had not Mr. Watt availed himself of their application for the vi PREFACE .
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... obtained from the mutual action of Potassium and Ammonia upon each other . His belief that he had decomposed Nitrogen . — He discovers Tellu- retted Hydrogen . - Whether Sulphur , Phosphorus , and Carbon , may not contain Hydrogen ...
... obtained from the mutual action of Potassium and Ammonia upon each other . His belief that he had decomposed Nitrogen . — He discovers Tellu- retted Hydrogen . - Whether Sulphur , Phosphorus , and Carbon , may not contain Hydrogen ...
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... obtained from the metallic blocks which commonly lie about the streets of a coinage town , and demand from his companions a certain number of pins for the privilege of witnessing the operation . At an early age , but I am unable to ...
... obtained from the metallic blocks which commonly lie about the streets of a coinage town , and demand from his companions a certain number of pins for the privilege of witnessing the operation . At an early age , but I am unable to ...
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... obtained a fly - leaf , torn out of a Schrevelius ' Lexicon , on which the Dramatis Persona , as well as the names of the young actors , were re- gistered , as originally cast . This document appears so interesting , that I have thought ...
... obtained a fly - leaf , torn out of a Schrevelius ' Lexicon , on which the Dramatis Persona , as well as the names of the young actors , were re- gistered , as originally cast . This document appears so interesting , that I have thought ...
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