Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-03-23
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PROSPECTUS
OF the Acadsmician, tutasied in .NfOrh.
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are convinced there are many useful p'o-
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made public, or if they have, more ele-
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Trisonometry, &c. and their applications
to he different branches OF mixed Ma
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and lightly cultivated mind, as the foun.
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oug republican institutions and the best
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