The Edinburgh Magazine, Or, Literary Miscellany, Volumen7J. Sibbald, Parliament-Square, 1796 |
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... for centuries buried in the ground ; on one was fculptured a mitred abbot , unknown ; for either no infcription had been ad- ded to the effigy , or is now irrecover- A 2 ably SHORT RECAPITULATION OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS OF 1795 . Dec.
... for centuries buried in the ground ; on one was fculptured a mitred abbot , unknown ; for either no infcription had been ad- ded to the effigy , or is now irrecover- A 2 ably SHORT RECAPITULATION OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS OF 1795 . Dec.
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... ground to graze sheep and cows . It did not even contain fifty foreign plants . the intereft of Count Teffin , obtained the best part of Upfal into a heap ed the profefforfhip of phyfic and a- of ruins in 1702 , destroyed it entire ...
... ground to graze sheep and cows . It did not even contain fifty foreign plants . the intereft of Count Teffin , obtained the best part of Upfal into a heap ed the profefforfhip of phyfic and a- of ruins in 1702 , destroyed it entire ...
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... ground . One of them contains the perennial plants ; the other those from which the feeds are annually gathered . Each of thefe tracts is divided into forty - four beds furrounded with a low hedge and little doors . The plant - houfe is ...
... ground . One of them contains the perennial plants ; the other those from which the feeds are annually gathered . Each of thefe tracts is divided into forty - four beds furrounded with a low hedge and little doors . The plant - houfe is ...
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... ground four days , without annoyance , and then re - interred . Holing fhed . At this period hay , too , was fold at 10s . the load , on account of a fe- vere drought , About this time ( the beginning of the fixteenth century ) there ...
... ground four days , without annoyance , and then re - interred . Holing fhed . At this period hay , too , was fold at 10s . the load , on account of a fe- vere drought , About this time ( the beginning of the fixteenth century ) there ...
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... ground ; and that it was , in his opinion , the hortest and the levelleft that could be laid out be tween the two ends of the district through which the road paffed . Should it be made appear by mea furement , and taking the elevations ...
... ground ; and that it was , in his opinion , the hortest and the levelleft that could be laid out be tween the two ends of the district through which the road paffed . Should it be made appear by mea furement , and taking the elevations ...
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