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... exhibited of his progrefs in Botany , we may conclude that he would have extended the difcoveries in that science . The last compofition which he read in this Society , was a description of select Indian plants , and I hope his ...
... exhibited of his progrefs in Botany , we may conclude that he would have extended the difcoveries in that science . The last compofition which he read in this Society , was a description of select Indian plants , and I hope his ...
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... exhibited , ( though we can only judge perfectly by confulting the originals ) , we cannot but thirst for the whole work of VYA'SA , with which a member of our fociety , whose presence deters me from saying more of him , will in due ...
... exhibited , ( though we can only judge perfectly by confulting the originals ) , we cannot but thirst for the whole work of VYA'SA , with which a member of our fociety , whose presence deters me from saying more of him , will in due ...
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... exhibited , and our corre- fpondents would be apprised of those points , to which we chiefly direct our investigations . Much may , I am confident , be expected from the communications of learned natives , whether lawyers , phyficians ...
... exhibited , and our corre- fpondents would be apprised of those points , to which we chiefly direct our investigations . Much may , I am confident , be expected from the communications of learned natives , whether lawyers , phyficians ...
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... exhibiting a more diffuse , but ftill fuperficial , sketch of the various discoveries in History , Science , and Art , which we might justly expect from our inquiries into the literature of Afia . I now propose to fill up that outline ...
... exhibiting a more diffuse , but ftill fuperficial , sketch of the various discoveries in History , Science , and Art , which we might justly expect from our inquiries into the literature of Afia . I now propose to fill up that outline ...
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... exhibited by HYDE as Khatayan writing , is evidently a sort of broken Cúfick ; and the fine manuscript at Oxford , from which it was taken , is more probably a Mendean work on some religious subject than , as he imagined , a code of ...
... exhibited by HYDE as Khatayan writing , is evidently a sort of broken Cúfick ; and the fine manuscript at Oxford , from which it was taken , is more probably a Mendean work on some religious subject than , as he imagined , a code of ...
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