An Introductory Discourse Delivered Before the Literary and Philosophical Society of New York, on the Fourth of May, 1814David Longworth, 1815 - 148 Seiten |
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... travels , visited some of our churchyards , and seeing , or fancying that he saw , on the tombstones but few notices of persons who had attained considerable longevity , has hazarded this general conclusion , that the Americans are ...
... travels , visited some of our churchyards , and seeing , or fancying that he saw , on the tombstones but few notices of persons who had attained considerable longevity , has hazarded this general conclusion , that the Americans are ...
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... Travels and Discoveries of Pike , the History of Louisiana by Stoddard , the Code of Martial Law by Macomb , a Treatise on the Organization of Artillery by Morton , several important military memoirs by the president of that institution ...
... Travels and Discoveries of Pike , the History of Louisiana by Stoddard , the Code of Martial Law by Macomb , a Treatise on the Organization of Artillery by Morton , several important military memoirs by the president of that institution ...
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... travel in retrogression the history of the progress of the human mind , and we find in space what is due only to the succes- sion of time . " * Zoology has been greatly neglected . Linnæus has distributed animals into six classes , and ...
... travel in retrogression the history of the progress of the human mind , and we find in space what is due only to the succes- sion of time . " * Zoology has been greatly neglected . Linnæus has distributed animals into six classes , and ...
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... travels to this state from the regions of the north ; his favourite food , the lichen rangiferinus , is to be found in our mountains . Our tiger , or panther , the felis concolor of Schreber , and the couguar of Buffon , is the same ...
... travels to this state from the regions of the north ; his favourite food , the lichen rangiferinus , is to be found in our mountains . Our tiger , or panther , the felis concolor of Schreber , and the couguar of Buffon , is the same ...
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... travel- led through this country in 1748 , for that purpose . Since the revolu- tionary war several European princes have sent scientific men here to make collections and observations on our natural history . The Mi- chaux , father and ...
... travel- led through this country in 1748 , for that purpose . Since the revolu- tionary war several European princes have sent scientific men here to make collections and observations on our natural history . The Mi- chaux , father and ...
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