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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 211
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exaltedthere was found a humility , a gentleness , a self-forgetfulness , a , patience , and a dedication of lace life and to all work Christian sacred ends and
useswhich henceforth made every p . " well The , ; hop operation e was was once safel more y recovered springing from up , and in the for hearts a time of all those went
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to ladies . For , a time the disease seemed in abeyance , though , frequent attacks of _hemoptysis reminded Mia how frail a tenure of
the life most he held imp . ortant The succeeding part of his ten life years , so far from as Ms 1844 literary to 1854 work were is
concerned . His well known and valued researches upon colour blindness
examined were made 1 during 154 person this s de w c ith ade reference ; in 1852 to and this 1853 subject alone . , His he carefull biogra y -
phical ¦ Of these sketches , one also of the are most included interesting in this time to the . scientific reader , is
an that earl upon number the , " Life of the and British Discoveries ' Quarterl of _Daltbn y Mevieiv , " , whi and ch in appeared which the in y
is atomic " Life expounded theory of the with of Hon that singular . _" Henry great clearness lawg Cavendish iver and ; of " quantitative precision appeared . , and In _chemistry 1851 greatl , his , y " herThe
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Notices Of Books. 211
_NOTICES OF BOOKS . 211
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1862, page 211, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111862/page/67/
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