Works, Volume 1Adam and Charles Black, 1872 |
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... capital offence , the horrors of the slave trade tolerated , the prevailing tendencies of the age , jobbery and corruption . " To the earlier numbers of the Review he contributed largely . He wrote no less than twenty - one articles ...
... capital offence , the horrors of the slave trade tolerated , the prevailing tendencies of the age , jobbery and corruption . " To the earlier numbers of the Review he contributed largely . He wrote no less than twenty - one articles ...
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... capital discovery of Black , thus early made , and share in which no one has ever pretended , was that the causticity , as it was formerly termed upon a false theory , of the alkalis and alkaline earths , was owing to the loss of a ...
... capital discovery of Black , thus early made , and share in which no one has ever pretended , was that the causticity , as it was formerly termed upon a false theory , of the alkalis and alkaline earths , was owing to the loss of a ...
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... capital point . No one refuses to Newton the discovery of gravitation as the controlling and directing power of the solar system ; and yet he made not one of those observations upon which his theory rests ; nay , he threw it aside for ...
... capital point . No one refuses to Newton the discovery of gravitation as the controlling and directing power of the solar system ; and yet he made not one of those observations upon which his theory rests ; nay , he threw it aside for ...
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... capital , can ever forget the zest which his society derived from the mixture of such various matters as those to which I have referred ; and one of its most distinguished founders has justly said , that in no other person was there ...
... capital , can ever forget the zest which his society derived from the mixture of such various matters as those to which I have referred ; and one of its most distinguished founders has justly said , that in no other person was there ...
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... capital experiment of burning oxy- gen and hydrogen gases in a close vessel , and finding pure water to be the produce of the combustion . Secondly , That , in the same paper , he drew from this experiment the conclusion that the two ...
... capital experiment of burning oxy- gen and hydrogen gases in a close vessel , and finding pure water to be the produce of the combustion . Secondly , That , in the same paper , he drew from this experiment the conclusion that the two ...
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