The Edinburgh Review, Том 111A. and C. Black, 1860 |
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... nearly every article that lies before her . Those glazed visiting - cards , if they could speak , possibly could tell of the paralyzed hand that made them ; that splendid mirror which lights up the stately room , has , without doubt ...
... nearly every article that lies before her . Those glazed visiting - cards , if they could speak , possibly could tell of the paralyzed hand that made them ; that splendid mirror which lights up the stately room , has , without doubt ...
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... nearly black , and , under the microscope , appeared to consist of fibres of sooty particles . It was very light and flocculent . One hundred and fifty grains of the dust were examined by Reinsch's process , and enough metallic arsenic ...
... nearly black , and , under the microscope , appeared to consist of fibres of sooty particles . It was very light and flocculent . One hundred and fifty grains of the dust were examined by Reinsch's process , and enough metallic arsenic ...
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... nearly what an English gentleman's drawing - room is . For warming it , two ordinary drawing - room grates were put in as close to the floor as possible , and with low chimney openings , that the heated air in the room should not escape ...
... nearly what an English gentleman's drawing - room is . For warming it , two ordinary drawing - room grates were put in as close to the floor as possible , and with low chimney openings , that the heated air in the room should not escape ...
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... nearly two entire days in succession . Is it surprising that their rate of sickness is dreadful - greater than even that of the tailors ? Dr. Guy tells us that no less than thirty- one in the hundred spit blood , and that every other ...
... nearly two entire days in succession . Is it surprising that their rate of sickness is dreadful - greater than even that of the tailors ? Dr. Guy tells us that no less than thirty- one in the hundred spit blood , and that every other ...
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... nearly as unhealthy as the tailors . The evidence given before the Select Committee of the House of Lords in 1855 , to inquire into the expediency of passing a bill for the protection of needlewomen , certainly is ap- palling in the ...
... nearly as unhealthy as the tailors . The evidence given before the Select Committee of the House of Lords in 1855 , to inquire into the expediency of passing a bill for the protection of needlewomen , certainly is ap- palling in the ...
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