A Group of Englishmen (1795 to 1815) Being Records of the Younger Wedgwoods and Their Friends: Embracing the History of the Discovery of Photography and a Facsimile of the First PhotographLongmans, Green, and Company, 1871 - 416 páginas |
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... town in which he had been born and reared , and had his sons been likely to occupy the same position and no more , a practical and simple education might have sufficed . But by this time genius and industry combined had raised him to a ...
... town in which he had been born and reared , and had his sons been likely to occupy the same position and no more , a practical and simple education might have sufficed . But by this time genius and industry combined had raised him to a ...
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... town clerk of Nottingham ; Peter Crompton , the father of Chief Justice Crompton , and the friend and associate of Roscoe , and Thomas Percival , son of the well known Manchester physician.1 In the autumn of 1787 , Wedgwood sent his ...
... town clerk of Nottingham ; Peter Crompton , the father of Chief Justice Crompton , and the friend and associate of Roscoe , and Thomas Percival , son of the well known Manchester physician.1 In the autumn of 1787 , Wedgwood sent his ...
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... Town Council , jealous of this attempt to supersede their authority , and encou- raged by the support of many eminent and liberal men , stood firm , and elected Leslie to the vacant chair . After a long contest in both the civil and ...
... Town Council , jealous of this attempt to supersede their authority , and encou- raged by the support of many eminent and liberal men , stood firm , and elected Leslie to the vacant chair . After a long contest in both the civil and ...
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... towns . But much sand being used in its composition , thus forming a paste easily vitrified and warped , the goods , as a general rule , were misshapen and otherwise defective . Yet , in spite of these drawbacks , much of this ware ...
... towns . But much sand being used in its composition , thus forming a paste easily vitrified and warped , the goods , as a general rule , were misshapen and otherwise defective . Yet , in spite of these drawbacks , much of this ware ...
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... towns , was literally far removed . Unless the port of Havre were chosen , it was easier to despatch goods by way of Liverpool to America or the West Indies than overland to Dover or Southampton , and thence across the Channel . Bentley ...
... towns , was literally far removed . Unless the port of Havre were chosen , it was easier to despatch goods by way of Liverpool to America or the West Indies than overland to Dover or Southampton , and thence across the Channel . Bentley ...
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