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... present . Our limits will not allow of further minute description . Among the rarest in the later part of the series may be reckoned the pennies of Edward VI . , Mary , and Philip and Mary . From the reign of Edward I. to Henry VIII ...
... present . Our limits will not allow of further minute description . Among the rarest in the later part of the series may be reckoned the pennies of Edward VI . , Mary , and Philip and Mary . From the reign of Edward I. to Henry VIII ...
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... present to us danger to human life in a new aspect . Its novelty consists not so much in the peculiarly frightful nature of accidents of this class , as in the causes which produce them . In the olden time , or even within the memory of ...
... present to us danger to human life in a new aspect . Its novelty consists not so much in the peculiarly frightful nature of accidents of this class , as in the causes which produce them . In the olden time , or even within the memory of ...
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... present ; namely , green on the starboard side , red on the port side . But let these lights be placed abreast the foremast ; at present they are often fixed upon the quarter , and consequently become shut in too soon . 3. Let all ...
... present ; namely , green on the starboard side , red on the port side . But let these lights be placed abreast the foremast ; at present they are often fixed upon the quarter , and consequently become shut in too soon . 3. Let all ...
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... present relation with a colony such as Jamaica or Canada entails any expense on the mother country , we may ask whether all the commercial advantages that result from this relation would not be equally secured , if only the free ...
... present relation with a colony such as Jamaica or Canada entails any expense on the mother country , we may ask whether all the commercial advantages that result from this relation would not be equally secured , if only the free ...
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... present a voluted face either ranging with the volutes of the portico , or with the volutes of the column at the side of the portico . The angle column of St. Pancras Church , London , has the angular faces curved . The angular volutes ...
... present a voluted face either ranging with the volutes of the portico , or with the volutes of the column at the side of the portico . The angle column of St. Pancras Church , London , has the angular faces curved . The angular volutes ...
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