Descriptive Essays Contributed to the Quarterly Review: The air we live inJ. Murray, 1857 |
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... persons of the highest rank , beauty , and wealth in Europe . Upon their edu- cation no expense has been spared ; —money has done all in its power to add to Nature's choicest gifts the polish of Art . Their dresses are importations from ...
... persons of the highest rank , beauty , and wealth in Europe . Upon their edu- cation no expense has been spared ; —money has done all in its power to add to Nature's choicest gifts the polish of Art . Their dresses are importations from ...
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... persons present , like those in the Black - hole at Calcutta , are conglomerated together in a hermetically - sealed box full of vitiated air . Every minute a thousand gallons of air pass into the lungs of those present , from whence ...
... persons present , like those in the Black - hole at Calcutta , are conglomerated together in a hermetically - sealed box full of vitiated air . Every minute a thousand gallons of air pass into the lungs of those present , from whence ...
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... persons in the vigour of life , appears to be double the amount of what was suffered by the Allied armies in the battle of Waterloo ; . . . that dis- eases which now prevail on land did , within the experience of persons still living ...
... persons in the vigour of life , appears to be double the amount of what was suffered by the Allied armies in the battle of Waterloo ; . . . that dis- eases which now prevail on land did , within the experience of persons still living ...
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... persons in all . The room contained three wretched beds , with two persons sleeping in each : it mea- sured about twelve feet in length , and seven in breadth ; and its greatest height would not admit of a person's standing erect it ...
... persons in all . The room contained three wretched beds , with two persons sleeping in each : it mea- sured about twelve feet in length , and seven in breadth ; and its greatest height would not admit of a person's standing erect it ...
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... persons of a higher condition the habits are greatly dependent on the con- veniences it is observed that , when the supplies of water into houses of the middle class are cut off by the pipes being frozen , and it is necessary to send to ...
... persons of a higher condition the habits are greatly dependent on the con- veniences it is observed that , when the supplies of water into houses of the middle class are cut off by the pipes being frozen , and it is necessary to send to ...
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