The North British Review, Tom 40W. P. Kennedy, 1864 |
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... true ; but on those days the farmers were delighted to see him vault on horseback as usual , and gallop down the sheep - fed hill - sides with all the joyous alacrity of a boy of eighteen . Once , when he was gathering himself up after ...
... true ; but on those days the farmers were delighted to see him vault on horseback as usual , and gallop down the sheep - fed hill - sides with all the joyous alacrity of a boy of eighteen . Once , when he was gathering himself up after ...
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... true solution , I can account for the attachment displayed by chaffinches to my polyanthuses , scores of which lie scattered on my flower - beds , nipped off just below the expanded petals . The ovary of the cherry blossom I found in ...
... true solution , I can account for the attachment displayed by chaffinches to my polyanthuses , scores of which lie scattered on my flower - beds , nipped off just below the expanded petals . The ovary of the cherry blossom I found in ...
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... true sportsman , make him a welcome addi- tion to any sporting party . Take the manner of his life then , as he has described it to us while we ate our luncheon together by the moorland spring , and while the gillies were emptying the ...
... true sportsman , make him a welcome addi- tion to any sporting party . Take the manner of his life then , as he has described it to us while we ate our luncheon together by the moorland spring , and while the gillies were emptying the ...
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... true theory of heat , when revived some twenty years ago , re- ceived so rapidly its present enormous development . Fourier's Traité de la Chaleur , composed before 1812 , is one of the most exquisite mathematical works ever written ...
... true theory of heat , when revived some twenty years ago , re- ceived so rapidly its present enormous development . Fourier's Traité de la Chaleur , composed before 1812 , is one of the most exquisite mathematical works ever written ...
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... true theory of heat ; and it is but bare justice to acknowledge that Carnot himself was by no means satisfied with the caloric hypothesis , and insinuates , as we have already seen , more than a mere suspicion of its correctness . But ...
... true theory of heat ; and it is but bare justice to acknowledge that Carnot himself was by no means satisfied with the caloric hypothesis , and insinuates , as we have already seen , more than a mere suspicion of its correctness . But ...
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