Memoir of Thomas Drummond, R.E.,F.R.A.S., Under Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1835-1840 |
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THE ORDNANCE SURVEY - NATURE OF THE SURVEY OPERATIONS
EXPLAINED HISTORY OF THE SURVEY IN GREAT BRITAIN - OPERATIONS IN
SCOTLAND IN 1819 - STATION - HUNTING AND MOUNTAINPEAK
OBSERVATORIES ...
THE ORDNANCE SURVEY - NATURE OF THE SURVEY OPERATIONS
EXPLAINED HISTORY OF THE SURVEY IN GREAT BRITAIN - OPERATIONS IN
SCOTLAND IN 1819 - STATION - HUNTING AND MOUNTAINPEAK
OBSERVATORIES ...
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... the natural outcome of qualities accumulated and transmitted from generation
to generation in families of long - continued respectability . Mr Drummond's
circumstances became somewhat embarrassed soon after his marriage . As
stated by ...
... the natural outcome of qualities accumulated and transmitted from generation
to generation in families of long - continued respectability . Mr Drummond's
circumstances became somewhat embarrassed soon after his marriage . As
stated by ...
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Also , the experience of this time must have intensified in some degree his
natural sympathies with the poor and struggling . How strong these were we shall
see . They prompted the most arduous labour of his life -- a labour to which ,
indeed ...
Also , the experience of this time must have intensified in some degree his
natural sympathies with the poor and struggling . How strong these were we shall
see . They prompted the most arduous labour of his life -- a labour to which ,
indeed ...
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Here his chief subjects of study were Mathematics , Natural Philosophy , and
Chemistry . His college exercises , solutions of problems , or proofs of theorems ,
done in the classes of Professors Leslie and Playfair , have been preserved , and
...
Here his chief subjects of study were Mathematics , Natural Philosophy , and
Chemistry . His college exercises , solutions of problems , or proofs of theorems ,
done in the classes of Professors Leslie and Playfair , have been preserved , and
...
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As it was , the boy's mind seemed to be finding its natural field in the definite
logical processes of mathematics pure and applied . Jardine appears to have
seen this , and to have hinted at his yielding to the natural bent , in a letter to him ,
dated ...
As it was , the boy's mind seemed to be finding its natural field in the definite
logical processes of mathematics pure and applied . Jardine appears to have
seen this , and to have hinted at his yielding to the natural bent , in a letter to him ,
dated ...
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| Title | Memoir of Thomas Drummond, R.E.,F.R.A.S., Under Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1835-1840 |
| Author | John Ferguson McLennan |
| Publisher | Edmonston and Douglas, 1867 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 23 Jul 2010 |
| Length | 475 pages |
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