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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... supposed , occasioned him considerable annoyance , and he engaged a serjeant to give him private lessons , but it was all to no purpose . In the platoon exercise he was not more expert ; and he whose electric battery was destined to ...
... supposed , occasioned him considerable annoyance , and he engaged a serjeant to give him private lessons , but it was all to no purpose . In the platoon exercise he was not more expert ; and he whose electric battery was destined to ...
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... supposed that two kindred spirits would not be long in contracting an acquaintance with each other ; in fact , an intimacy of the warmest nature did ultimately grow up between them , and continue to the very moment of Mr. Watt's ...
... supposed that two kindred spirits would not be long in contracting an acquaintance with each other ; in fact , an intimacy of the warmest nature did ultimately grow up between them , and continue to the very moment of Mr. Watt's ...
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... supposed to depend . After all , the great end of biography is not to be found , as some would seem to imagine , in a series of dates , or in a collection of gossiping anecdotes and table - talk , which , instead of lighting up and ...
... supposed to depend . After all , the great end of biography is not to be found , as some would seem to imagine , in a series of dates , or in a collection of gossiping anecdotes and table - talk , which , instead of lighting up and ...
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... supposed , a modification , or an effect , of heat , but matter of a peculiar kind , sui generis , which , when moving through space , or in a state of projection , is capable of becoming the source of a numerous class of our sensations ...
... supposed , a modification , or an effect , of heat , but matter of a peculiar kind , sui generis , which , when moving through space , or in a state of projection , is capable of becoming the source of a numerous class of our sensations ...
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... supposed to quit such substances as soon as its particles have acquired repulsive motion by elevation of temperature . The Electric Fluid is considered as Light in a condensed state , or , in other words , in that peculiar state in ...
... supposed to quit such substances as soon as its particles have acquired repulsive motion by elevation of temperature . The Electric Fluid is considered as Light in a condensed state , or , in other words , in that peculiar state in ...
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