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The Scots Magazine, Or, General Repository of Literature, History, and Politics - Page 381
1803
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Essays

Sydney Smith - 1847 - 524 pages
...foreigners, who are occupied in some way or other with the pearls, some separating and assorting them^others weighing and ascertaining their number and value,...them about, or drilling and boring them for future use ; — all these circumstances tend to impress the mind with the value and importance of that object...
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The ocean

Philip Henry Gosse - 1849 - 396 pages
...and foreigners, who are occupied in some way or other with the pearls, some separating and assorting them, others weighing and ascertaining their number...them about, or drilling and boring them for future use ; — all these circumstances tend to impress the mind with the value and importance of that object...
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An Introduction to Conchology: Or, Elements of the Natural History of ...

George Johnston - 1850 - 634 pages
...and foreigners, who are occupied in some way or other with the pearls, some separating and assorting them, others weighing and ascertaining their number...them about, or drilling and boring them for future use : all these circumstances tend to impress the mind with the value and importance of that object...
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The Modern British Essayists: Smith, Sydney. Works

1852 - 498 pages
...and foreigners, who are occupied in some way or other with the pearls, some separating and assorting them, others weighing and ascertaining their number...them about, or drilling and boring them for future use ; — all these circumstances tend to impress the mind with the value and importance of that object,...
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The works of ... Sydney Smith, including his contributions to the Edinburgh ...

Sydney Smith - 1859 - 1360 pages
...and foreigners, who are occupied in some way or other with the pearls, some separating and assorting them, others weighing and ascertaining their number...them about, or drilling and boring them for future use ; — all these circumstances' tend to impress the mind with the value and importance of that object...
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Elements of conchology, Volume 31

Lovell Augustus Reeve - 1860 - 860 pages
...and foreigners, who are occupied in some way or other with the pearls, some separating and assorting them, others weighing and ascertaining their number...them about, or drilling and boring them for future use ; — all these circumstances tend to impress the mind with the valne and importance of that object...
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Walks abroad and evenings at home [by R.K. Philp].

Robert Kemp Philp - 1861 - 354 pages
...and foreigners, who are occupied in some way or other with the pearls, some separating and assorting them, others weighing and ascertaining their number...them about, or drilling and boring them for future use ; — all these circumstances tend to impress the mind with the value and importance of that object...
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Beadle's Monthly, Volume 1

1866 - 584 pages
...and foreigners, who are occupied in some way or other with the pearls, some separating and assorting them, others weighing and ascertaining their number...them about, or drilling and boring them for future use ; all these circumstances tend to impress the mind with the value and importance of that object...
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Chambers's Miscellany of Instructive & Entertaining Tracts, Volumes 15-16

William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1869 - 526 pages
...and foreigners, who are occupied in some way or other with the pearls, some separating and assorting them, others weighing and ascertaining their number...them about, or drilling and boring them for future use : all these circumstances tend to impress the mind with the value and importance of that object...
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The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith

Sydney Smith - 1870 - 842 pages
...and foreigners, who are occupied in some way or other with the pearls, some separating and assorting them, others weighing and ascertaining their number...them about, or drilling and boring them for future use ;—all these circumstances tend to impress the mind with the value and importance of that object,...
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