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... position . Although this gen- tleman had usually found two or three minutes sufficient to send the girl to sleep , when he was in his own drawing - room and she was in the kitchen , the two being separated by intervening walls and ...
... position . Although this gen- tleman had usually found two or three minutes sufficient to send the girl to sleep , when he was in his own drawing - room and she was in the kitchen , the two being separated by intervening walls and ...
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... position , that it is only when the enquiry is directed , and its results recorded , by sceptical experts , that ... positions taken in regard to Mesmerism by my friend Dr. Noble , as far back as 1845 , ' and more fully developed by ...
... position , that it is only when the enquiry is directed , and its results recorded , by sceptical experts , that ... positions taken in regard to Mesmerism by my friend Dr. Noble , as far back as 1845 , ' and more fully developed by ...
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... position at right angles to it being to some quite intolerable . Von Reichenbach's doctrine came before the British public under the authority of the late Dr. Gregory , then Professor of Chemistry in the University of Edinburgh ; who ...
... position at right angles to it being to some quite intolerable . Von Reichenbach's doctrine came before the British public under the authority of the late Dr. Gregory , then Professor of Chemistry in the University of Edinburgh ; who ...
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... position of a permanent magnet in a totally darkened room ; the value of this solitary fact , for which there are plenty of ways of accounting , never having been tested by the use of an Electro- magnet , whose active or passive ...
... position of a permanent magnet in a totally darkened room ; the value of this solitary fact , for which there are plenty of ways of accounting , never having been tested by the use of an Electro- magnet , whose active or passive ...
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... strong man chained down to his chair , prevented from stepping over a stick on the floor , or obliged to remain almost doubled upon himself in a stooping position , by the assurance that he could not TABLE - TURNING , SPIRITUALISM . 39.
... strong man chained down to his chair , prevented from stepping over a stick on the floor , or obliged to remain almost doubled upon himself in a stooping position , by the assurance that he could not TABLE - TURNING , SPIRITUALISM . 39.
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