The penny cyclopædia [ed. by G. Long]., Tom 23 |
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... nearly as fol- lows : - Assumed cost of authorship Cost of engraving ( on steel ) at least • £ 21 0 0 35 0 0 £ 56 0 0 but by dispersing this larger sum over a number of eight thousand copies , the proportion chargeable to each is re ...
... nearly as fol- lows : - Assumed cost of authorship Cost of engraving ( on steel ) at least • £ 21 0 0 35 0 0 £ 56 0 0 but by dispersing this larger sum over a number of eight thousand copies , the proportion chargeable to each is re ...
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... nearly a hundred , are the best known of all his works , and of which it is enough to say , that Handel acknowledged his twelve celebrated duets to have been written in imitation of them . Steffani was not only a musician but a ...
... nearly a hundred , are the best known of all his works , and of which it is enough to say , that Handel acknowledged his twelve celebrated duets to have been written in imitation of them . Steffani was not only a musician but a ...
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... nearly all his property . The price of this prodigious work was necessarily high , and accordingly it could not have many purchasers . When Scapula some years afterwards published his cheap abridge- ment [ SCAPULA ] , the sale was nearly ...
... nearly all his property . The price of this prodigious work was necessarily high , and accordingly it could not have many purchasers . When Scapula some years afterwards published his cheap abridge- ment [ SCAPULA ] , the sale was nearly ...
Strona 40
... nearly valvular aestivation ; -5 petals hypogynous , often saccate at the base ; stamens de- finite or indefinite , and monadelphous ; anthers 2 - celled ; the pistil consists of 5 carpels , often surrounding a columnar gynophore ...
... nearly valvular aestivation ; -5 petals hypogynous , often saccate at the base ; stamens de- finite or indefinite , and monadelphous ; anthers 2 - celled ; the pistil consists of 5 carpels , often surrounding a columnar gynophore ...
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... nearly . For we find that Savérien translated his article , word for word , from the second edition ( 1743 ) of Stone's Mathematical Dictionary . Stone was a con- temporary of Leadbetter , and several times refers to his writings . In ...
... nearly . For we find that Savérien translated his article , word for word , from the second edition ( 1743 ) of Stone's Mathematical Dictionary . Stone was a con- temporary of Leadbetter , and several times refers to his writings . In ...
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