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... present in the first five notes to be doing no more than extending and diversifying the means by which a melody might be sung in unison by different voices . How they came to prefer for this purpose the 4th to the 5th seems puzzling ...
... present in the first five notes to be doing no more than extending and diversifying the means by which a melody might be sung in unison by different voices . How they came to prefer for this purpose the 4th to the 5th seems puzzling ...
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... present in the dominant 7th ) , while the peculiarly dissonant interval from which the chord takes its name is very nearly the same as a major 6th . Now it can only be said that an intonation which makes nonsense of chords of which ...
... present in the dominant 7th ) , while the peculiarly dissonant interval from which the chord takes its name is very nearly the same as a major 6th . Now it can only be said that an intonation which makes nonsense of chords of which ...
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... present limits of Harrisburg . In 1753 his son estab- lished a ferry over the river , and the place was called Harris's Ferry until 1785 , when the younger Harris laid out the town and named it Harrisburg . In the same year it was made ...
... present limits of Harrisburg . In 1753 his son estab- lished a ferry over the river , and the place was called Harris's Ferry until 1785 , when the younger Harris laid out the town and named it Harrisburg . In the same year it was made ...
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... present state of Indiana and- portions of the present states of Illinois , Wisconsin and Missouri were opened to settlement . For a few months after the division in 1804 of the Louisiana Purchase into the Orleans Territory and the ...
... present state of Indiana and- portions of the present states of Illinois , Wisconsin and Missouri were opened to settlement . For a few months after the division in 1804 of the Louisiana Purchase into the Orleans Territory and the ...
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... present in both sexes . This antelope is the Cape Hartebeest ( Bubalis cama ) . Bubalis cama or Alcelaphus cama of naturalists ; but the name hartebeest has been extended to include all the numerous members of the same genus , some of ...
... present in both sexes . This antelope is the Cape Hartebeest ( Bubalis cama ) . Bubalis cama or Alcelaphus cama of naturalists ; but the name hartebeest has been extended to include all the numerous members of the same genus , some of ...
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Page 38 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
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