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They have established Rules and Orders for the Government of the Institution , and have unremittingly laboured to mature them , to make them applicable to every circumstance likely to arise , and at the same time to have prosecuted ...
They have established Rules and Orders for the Government of the Institution , and have unremittingly laboured to mature them , to make them applicable to every circumstance likely to arise , and at the same time to have prosecuted ...
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It is my duty , as President , to offer some remarks on the nature of the institution and its probable results ; they shall only be a few and short , it being , I trust , sufficiently apparent that the principles of the institution rest ...
It is my duty , as President , to offer some remarks on the nature of the institution and its probable results ; they shall only be a few and short , it being , I trust , sufficiently apparent that the principles of the institution rest ...
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supporting the new Institution had not been viewed with favour by some of the more senior and important of his contemporaries . All his colleagues in the Smeatonian Society did not share his catholic outlook . There was indeed something ...
supporting the new Institution had not been viewed with favour by some of the more senior and important of his contemporaries . All his colleagues in the Smeatonian Society did not share his catholic outlook . There was indeed something ...
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The Eighteenth Century Transport problem | 26 |
First Highland Survey 1801Second Highland | 60 |
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