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... plate full of delicate little pancakes , each carefully rolled up with a few raisins inside , and nicely pow- dered over with white sugar . Forgive the weakness , good reader , but that little tray ! Can I ever forget it or its contents ...
... plate full of delicate little pancakes , each carefully rolled up with a few raisins inside , and nicely pow- dered over with white sugar . Forgive the weakness , good reader , but that little tray ! Can I ever forget it or its contents ...
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... Plates , and 16 Woodcuts . 2 vols . 8vo . 28s . INTRODUCTORY LECTURES on MODERN HISTORY . Delivered iu Lent Term , 1842 ; with the Inaugural Lecture delivered in December 1841 . By the Rev. THOMAS ARNOLD , D.D. 8vo . price 7s . 6d ...
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... Plates , 14s . The MOON , and the Condition and Configurations of its Surface . By EDMUND NEISON , Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society , & c . With 26 Maps and 5 Plates . Medium 8vo . 31s . 6d . A NEW STAR ATLAS , for the Library ...
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... Plates and 758 Woodcuts . Post 8vo . 15s . NATURAL PHILOSOPHY for GENERAL READERS and YOUNG PERSONS ; being a Course of Physics divested of Mathematical Formulæ expressed in the language of daily life . Translated from GANOT's Cours de ...
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