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... author of " De Legibus Naturæ . " This town is famous for an annual bull - running on St. Brice's day . To Woolsthorpe , his native place , Sir Isaac Newton retirred during the plague in 1666 , and here his system of gravitation was ...
... author of " De Legibus Naturæ . " This town is famous for an annual bull - running on St. Brice's day . To Woolsthorpe , his native place , Sir Isaac Newton retirred during the plague in 1666 , and here his system of gravitation was ...
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... Author , to diffuse a true Poetical Spirit through- out Europe . " Philip Des Portes , author of this Poem , was born at Chatres , in 1546 . His writings had much effect towards helping the progress and purity of the French Language ...
... Author , to diffuse a true Poetical Spirit through- out Europe . " Philip Des Portes , author of this Poem , was born at Chatres , in 1546 . His writings had much effect towards helping the progress and purity of the French Language ...
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... author of a very interesting and most amusing work that has recently appeared on the Manners and Literature of that age . I shall conclude with two stanzas of the translation , which I hope you will think worthy of closing this ac ...
... author of a very interesting and most amusing work that has recently appeared on the Manners and Literature of that age . I shall conclude with two stanzas of the translation , which I hope you will think worthy of closing this ac ...
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... Author of Rasselas has rank- ed eminently and proverbially high ; he has been allowed in many respects to stand unrivaled amid the numer- ous competitors in the same line , who , it is the just boast of British Li- terature , have ...
... Author of Rasselas has rank- ed eminently and proverbially high ; he has been allowed in many respects to stand unrivaled amid the numer- ous competitors in the same line , who , it is the just boast of British Li- terature , have ...
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... Author of the " Ram- bler , " as a moral delineator of the passions and aims of human life , has not been so frequently the subject of flattering encomium , perhaps not so justly appreciated . Amidst all the Authors , however , of ...
... Author of the " Ram- bler , " as a moral delineator of the passions and aims of human life , has not been so frequently the subject of flattering encomium , perhaps not so justly appreciated . Amidst all the Authors , however , of ...
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