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... remarkable , and well worthy of careful analysis . He has been called , and with much justice , an universal genius . ' His powers were most various and versatile , harmoniously proportioned one to another , and individually vast ; each ...
... remarkable , and well worthy of careful analysis . He has been called , and with much justice , an universal genius . ' His powers were most various and versatile , harmoniously proportioned one to another , and individually vast ; each ...
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... remarkable things , ' to use the words of Montucla . But still , results only are given ; no hint is afford- ed of the methods by which they are attained . The method of Fluxions , ' says the late eminent Professor Playfair , is not com ...
... remarkable things , ' to use the words of Montucla . But still , results only are given ; no hint is afford- ed of the methods by which they are attained . The method of Fluxions , ' says the late eminent Professor Playfair , is not com ...
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... remarkable , that two different men should have made this sublime discovery at the same time , but we must re- member , that the necessities of science were simultaneously turning the attention of all the mathematical genius of the age ...
... remarkable , that two different men should have made this sublime discovery at the same time , but we must re- member , that the necessities of science were simultaneously turning the attention of all the mathematical genius of the age ...
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... remarkable manner from those of the Northern Arabs , as well as from the ferocity of the Tuarichs of the real Desert , or the savage Fetichism of the Negro ; and he points out the great lines of commercial intercourse , by which a very ...
... remarkable manner from those of the Northern Arabs , as well as from the ferocity of the Tuarichs of the real Desert , or the savage Fetichism of the Negro ; and he points out the great lines of commercial intercourse , by which a very ...
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... remarkable chain of eminences , ' says Dr Shaw , which some- times borders on the Sahara , and sometimes lies within the Tell , may well be taken to be the Astrixis of Orvinus , the same with Mount Atlas so noted in history . Yet , it ...
... remarkable chain of eminences , ' says Dr Shaw , which some- times borders on the Sahara , and sometimes lies within the Tell , may well be taken to be the Astrixis of Orvinus , the same with Mount Atlas so noted in history . Yet , it ...
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