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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... native soil , laden with the bounties of the new world . This country was also planted at a time when the intellectual world was involved in Cimmerian darkness . The scholastic philosophy was the reigning knowledge of the times - a ...
... native soil , laden with the bounties of the new world . This country was also planted at a time when the intellectual world was involved in Cimmerian darkness . The scholastic philosophy was the reigning knowledge of the times - a ...
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... native soil of great talents . Though a republic should be barbarous , " says Hume , " it necessarily , by an infallible ope- ration , gives rise to law , even before mankind have made any consider- able advances in the other sciences ...
... native soil of great talents . Though a republic should be barbarous , " says Hume , " it necessarily , by an infallible ope- ration , gives rise to law , even before mankind have made any consider- able advances in the other sciences ...
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... native fossil.t All these indications support the Neptunian theory ; but there are several circumstances which denote the agency of an igneous principle . Volney , indeed , supposes that Lake Ontario occupies the crater of a volcano ...
... native fossil.t All these indications support the Neptunian theory ; but there are several circumstances which denote the agency of an igneous principle . Volney , indeed , supposes that Lake Ontario occupies the crater of a volcano ...
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... native origin , migrate from native to naturalized vegetables , as they furnish more abundant or agreeable food . Different preventives and remedies have been prescribed for their depredations , but it still re- mains to discover ...
... native origin , migrate from native to naturalized vegetables , as they furnish more abundant or agreeable food . Different preventives and remedies have been prescribed for their depredations , but it still re- mains to discover ...
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... native and naturalized plants of America according to the Linnæan system , which includes eight hundred and sixty - three genera , and their corresponding species . It has already become difficult to discriminate between our native and ...
... native and naturalized plants of America according to the Linnæan system , which includes eight hundred and sixty - three genera , and their corresponding species . It has already become difficult to discriminate between our native and ...
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