Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 17. köide,2. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Page 618
... persons affemble and play for and contains about 400 inhabitants . Spa has no wealth ftakes to a very confiderable ... person who discovered that fixed air , or , as it is now generally called , carbonic acid gas , forms a principal ...
... persons affemble and play for and contains about 400 inhabitants . Spa has no wealth ftakes to a very confiderable ... person who discovered that fixed air , or , as it is now generally called , carbonic acid gas , forms a principal ...
Page 680
... person who did not previously believe their existence . A man must be prejudiced in favour of this opinion , or he will never see a ghost . But fenfible men know , that he who has been accustomed to hear frightful ftories of ghofts and ...
... person who did not previously believe their existence . A man must be prejudiced in favour of this opinion , or he will never see a ghost . But fenfible men know , that he who has been accustomed to hear frightful ftories of ghofts and ...
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... person there who had then any tafte in that line of the fine arts . He was bound with him as an apprentice for fix years ; during which time he made fuch progrefs in his new profeffion , that his friends entertained the highest ...
... person there who had then any tafte in that line of the fine arts . He was bound with him as an apprentice for fix years ; during which time he made fuch progrefs in his new profeffion , that his friends entertained the highest ...
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