Arithmetical questions, on a new plan: a suppl. to Introduction to arithmetic1795 |
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... several parts of my professional occupation as fubfervient to the great end it aims to promote , as their nature will admit . Upon this plan most of the following questions have been compofed , which , with feveral others of a similar ...
... several parts of my professional occupation as fubfervient to the great end it aims to promote , as their nature will admit . Upon this plan most of the following questions have been compofed , which , with feveral others of a similar ...
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... several learned advocates , who have attributed the invention of letters to the patriarch Abraham ; and Sir Ifaac Newton , in particular , admits that letters were known in the Abrahamic time for fome centuries before Mofes . Mr ...
... several learned advocates , who have attributed the invention of letters to the patriarch Abraham ; and Sir Ifaac Newton , in particular , admits that letters were known in the Abrahamic time for fome centuries before Mofes . Mr ...
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... several books . Jofephus informs us , that he taught the Egyptians arithmetic and geometry ; and , according to other writers , he inftructed the Phoenicians , as well as the Egyptians , in aftronomy . This illuftrious patriarch , who ...
... several books . Jofephus informs us , that he taught the Egyptians arithmetic and geometry ; and , according to other writers , he inftructed the Phoenicians , as well as the Egyptians , in aftronomy . This illuftrious patriarch , who ...
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... Several of the confpirators were executed at the welt end of St. Paul's , Jan. 30 , 1605 ; others , among whom was Fawkes , the en- fuing day , in the Old - Palace - Yard , Weftminster ; and many Jefuits , their accomplices , fuffered ...
... Several of the confpirators were executed at the welt end of St. Paul's , Jan. 30 , 1605 ; others , among whom was Fawkes , the en- fuing day , in the Old - Palace - Yard , Weftminster ; and many Jefuits , their accomplices , fuffered ...
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... several parts of Europe with this , as well as with the orange and lemon trees . One fort , with a pointed fruit , is in fo great efteem , fays Miller , that a fingle citron is fold at Florence for 25. fterling . The lime is by fome ...
... several parts of Europe with this , as well as with the orange and lemon trees . One fort , with a pointed fruit , is in fo great efteem , fays Miller , that a fingle citron is fold at Florence for 25. fterling . The lime is by fome ...
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