Terrible Tractoration!!: A Poetical Petition Against Galvanising Trumpery, and the Perkinistic Institution. : in Four Cantos : Most Respectfully Addressed to the Royal College of PhysiciansSamuel Stansbury, 1804 - 192 |
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... equally pursued the object with no other expec- tation , or wish for reward , than the consolation of relieving the distressed . But it was reserved for the conductors of the British Critic to offer their pages to a wretch , who could ...
... equally pursued the object with no other expec- tation , or wish for reward , than the consolation of relieving the distressed . But it was reserved for the conductors of the British Critic to offer their pages to a wretch , who could ...
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... equally useful in magnify- ing services , which have been rendered commu- nity . Thus the uncles , aunts , cousins , sisters , brothers , and little children of the aforesaid states- man , by virtue thereof , seemed to have rendered ...
... equally useful in magnify- ing services , which have been rendered commu- nity . Thus the uncles , aunts , cousins , sisters , brothers , and little children of the aforesaid states- man , by virtue thereof , seemed to have rendered ...
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... equally happy and equally well founded , pub- lished in one of his Recreations , ' that the price " of the Tractors was now reduced to four guineas ' the set , ' when , in fact , no such thing was ever in contemplation . On the contrary ...
... equally happy and equally well founded , pub- lished in one of his Recreations , ' that the price " of the Tractors was now reduced to four guineas ' the set , ' when , in fact , no such thing was ever in contemplation . On the contrary ...
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... equally interesting and magnipotent , I must refer the inquisitive to the Appendix of my Fool's Cap Folio Volume , on the Tadpolian Discovery . It may , however , be necessary , in order to shew the extent to which I have surpassed ...
... equally interesting and magnipotent , I must refer the inquisitive to the Appendix of my Fool's Cap Folio Volume , on the Tadpolian Discovery . It may , however , be necessary , in order to shew the extent to which I have surpassed ...
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... equally plausible , led him to suppose that the earth was flatted near the poles , in the form of an oblate spheroid , and that a degree of latitude would , of consequence , be greater near the pole than at the equator . Ac- tual ...
... equally plausible , led him to suppose that the earth was flatted near the poles , in the form of an oblate spheroid , and that a degree of latitude would , of consequence , be greater near the pole than at the equator . Ac- tual ...
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