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... according to the Carlisle Rate of Mortality , at three per cent . , ' 8vo , London , 1851 , and contributed a preliminary notice to William Orchard's ' Single and Annual Assurance Premiums for every value of An- nuity , ' 8vo , London ...
... according to the Carlisle Rate of Mortality , at three per cent . , ' 8vo , London , 1851 , and contributed a preliminary notice to William Orchard's ' Single and Annual Assurance Premiums for every value of An- nuity , ' 8vo , London ...
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... according as they were or were not subject to electric excitation by friction . He also discovered that non - electrics could be transformed into the electric state by contact with disturbed and active electrics . Ciray's manifold ...
... according as they were or were not subject to electric excitation by friction . He also discovered that non - electrics could be transformed into the electric state by contact with disturbed and active electrics . Ciray's manifold ...
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... according to one Scotch account ) , whom he knighted just before the engage- ment , was carried off to Edinburgh . Here he became curious and pensive , ' and began ' à treter et à translater en plus court sentence les cronicles del ...
... according to one Scotch account ) , whom he knighted just before the engage- ment , was carried off to Edinburgh . Here he became curious and pensive , ' and began ' à treter et à translater en plus court sentence les cronicles del ...
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... According to Mason , Gray meant his bard to declare that poets should never be wanting to denounce vice in spite of tyrants . He laid the poem aside for a year because he could not find facts to confirm his theory . Ultimately the bard ...
... According to Mason , Gray meant his bard to declare that poets should never be wanting to denounce vice in spite of tyrants . He laid the poem aside for a year because he could not find facts to confirm his theory . Ultimately the bard ...
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... According to Lady Ailesbury , his only words at one party were : Yes , my lady , I believe so ' ( WALPOLE , Letters , iii . 324 ) . Miss Speed in January 1761 married the Baron de la Peyrière , son of the Sardinian minister , and went ...
... According to Lady Ailesbury , his only words at one party were : Yes , my lady , I believe so ' ( WALPOLE , Letters , iii . 324 ) . Miss Speed in January 1761 married the Baron de la Peyrière , son of the Sardinian minister , and went ...
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