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... given there . How they could answer in a room which would scarcely contain with comfort 400 persons , it is difficult to conceive ; but public singers , even first - rate ones , did not then ask such extravagant sums for their ...
... given there . How they could answer in a room which would scarcely contain with comfort 400 persons , it is difficult to conceive ; but public singers , even first - rate ones , did not then ask such extravagant sums for their ...
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... at all times . · 2 In a Biographical Dictionary published in 1784 I read , Dr. Plot is said to have been appointed by the Vice - Chancellor the first Professor of Chemistry . ' tures , given by Dr. Beddoes ' on Chemistry and B 2.
... at all times . · 2 In a Biographical Dictionary published in 1784 I read , Dr. Plot is said to have been appointed by the Vice - Chancellor the first Professor of Chemistry . ' tures , given by Dr. Beddoes ' on Chemistry and B 2.
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George Valentine Cox. tures , given by Dr. Beddoes ' on Chemistry and also on Strata and Rocks ! · It was on June1 29 , 1789 , that the ( locally ) famous Magdalen oak ' fell down , at the entrance of what were then commonly called ...
George Valentine Cox. tures , given by Dr. Beddoes ' on Chemistry and also on Strata and Rocks ! · It was on June1 29 , 1789 , that the ( locally ) famous Magdalen oak ' fell down , at the entrance of what were then commonly called ...
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... given lavishly , or without high claims ( much less sold ) —like those of a foreign University , from which the physician Dr. Pitcairn is said , by way of ridicule , to have asked for a diploma for his footman ! This having been granted ...
... given lavishly , or without high claims ( much less sold ) —like those of a foreign University , from which the physician Dr. Pitcairn is said , by way of ridicule , to have asked for a diploma for his footman ! This having been granted ...
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... given to Mr. Kett from his long , equine countenance . I have not the Critique by me , but I have been told that ' patet ' was substituted for latet ' in the motto of Mr. Copleston's pamphlet . Not content with being a Bampton Lecturer ...
... given to Mr. Kett from his long , equine countenance . I have not the Critique by me , but I have been told that ' patet ' was substituted for latet ' in the motto of Mr. Copleston's pamphlet . Not content with being a Bampton Lecturer ...
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