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... Observations in the subjoined Paragraphs relate to Botany and the History of Flowers in this we closely follow Linnaeus and the Naturalists of the 18th Century . We have endeavoured , under this Head , to give the Times of flowering of ...
... Observations in the subjoined Paragraphs relate to Botany and the History of Flowers in this we closely follow Linnaeus and the Naturalists of the 18th Century . We have endeavoured , under this Head , to give the Times of flowering of ...
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... Observations on Astronomy detailed in these Pages are likely to excite Attention to this Object , and to induce the ... Observation which has resulted from an Examination of the Antiquities of the Calendar compared with the periodical ...
... Observations on Astronomy detailed in these Pages are likely to excite Attention to this Object , and to induce the ... Observation which has resulted from an Examination of the Antiquities of the Calendar compared with the periodical ...
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... observed here , that the Reader will sometimes be surprised at seeing the Name of the Editor mentioned in the detached Essays of the Work in the third Person , and his Papers so referred to . This has arisen from the following ...
... observed here , that the Reader will sometimes be surprised at seeing the Name of the Editor mentioned in the detached Essays of the Work in the third Person , and his Papers so referred to . This has arisen from the following ...
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... observed , that the rising and setting of certain constellations , denoted in the Roman Calendar , allude here to the cosmical rising and setting . There are two others commonly alluded to in the same calendar , namely , the heliacal ...
... observed , that the rising and setting of certain constellations , denoted in the Roman Calendar , allude here to the cosmical rising and setting . There are two others commonly alluded to in the same calendar , namely , the heliacal ...
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... observed : The master , at the head of his friends , fills the cup , generally of strong ale , and stands opposite the first , or finest of the oxen . He then pledges him in a curious toast : the company follow his example with all the ...
... observed : The master , at the head of his friends , fills the cup , generally of strong ale , and stands opposite the first , or finest of the oxen . He then pledges him in a curious toast : the company follow his example with all the ...
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