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... Italy , where he spent the winter , returning to London on the 23rd of April , 1814 . During his stay in Italy , he collected specimens of the colours used by the ancients in their pictures . This formed the subject of a memoir to the ...
... Italy , where he spent the winter , returning to London on the 23rd of April , 1814 . During his stay in Italy , he collected specimens of the colours used by the ancients in their pictures . This formed the subject of a memoir to the ...
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... Italy , he fixed his residence at Rome , whence he sent his last communication to the Royal Society , viz . , Remarks on the Elec- tricity of the Torpedo . ' The chief peculiarity of this paper was the discovery that the electricity of ...
... Italy , he fixed his residence at Rome , whence he sent his last communication to the Royal Society , viz . , Remarks on the Elec- tricity of the Torpedo . ' The chief peculiarity of this paper was the discovery that the electricity of ...
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... Italian scenery , and although wanting in originality and vigour , possess so much beauty and grace as to have caused their author to acquire the name of the ' Scottish Claude . ' Mr. Nasmyth was a favourite in society , and was the ...
... Italian scenery , and although wanting in originality and vigour , possess so much beauty and grace as to have caused their author to acquire the name of the ' Scottish Claude . ' Mr. Nasmyth was a favourite in society , and was the ...
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... Italy , Alexander Nasmyth married the sister of Sir James Foulis of Woodhall Colinton , by whom he had a family of three sons and five daughters , all of whom inherited more or less their father's talents , while the eldest , Patrick ...
... Italy , Alexander Nasmyth married the sister of Sir James Foulis of Woodhall Colinton , by whom he had a family of three sons and five daughters , all of whom inherited more or less their father's talents , while the eldest , Patrick ...
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... Italy , and did not return for a period of nearly eighteen months , during which time his principal atten- tion was directed to the mineralogical and geological phenomena of the different regions which he visited . On his return from ...
... Italy , and did not return for a period of nearly eighteen months , during which time his principal atten- tion was directed to the mineralogical and geological phenomena of the different regions which he visited . On his return from ...
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Page 139 - Watt, who directing the force of an original genius early exercised in philosophic research to the improvement of the steam-engine, enlarged the resources of his country, increased the power of man, and rose to an eminent place among the most illustrious followers of science, and the real benefactors of the world.
Page 70 - Having never seen the disease but in its casual way before, that is when communicated from the cow to the hand of the milker, I was astonished at the close resemblance of the pustules, in some of their stages, to the variolous pustules.
Page 69 - ... so that, if a cuckoo should be ready with an egg much sooner than the time pointed out, not a single nestling, even one of the earliest, would be fit to provide for itself before its parent would be instinctively directed to seek a new residence, and be thus compelled to abandon its young one; for old cuckoos take their final leave of this country the first week in July.