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[H] ere on Earth the Loadstone is a Mineral so differing in divers affections, not onely from all other Stones, but from all other bodies, that are not Magnetical, that this Heteroclite [44]
Sticky Wants to Grab 2009
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It informs about the chances of open source for blind people from developing or newly industrializing countries, accessible satellite navigation on accessible handsets, The volunteer project Loadstone-GPS, corporate responsibility, mobile web access and the open
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The principal part of this story is borrowed from the First Voyage of Aboulfawaris in the Thousand and One Days; it has some resemblance to the story of the Mountain of Loadstone in No. 3c.
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Loadstone Mountain, whither the waters crave us with a violent send.
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And that there is such a huge promontorie called Tabin, I am certainly perswaded not onely out of Plinie, but also other writers, and some Maps (though somewhat rudely drawen:) and that the Pole of the Loadstone is not farre beyond Tabin, I haue learned by the certaine obseruations of the Loadstone: about which pole and
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Tabin I thinke there are very many rockes, and very hard and dangerous sailing: and yet a more hard and difficile passage I think it to bee this way which is now attempted by the West, for it is neerer to the pole of the Loadstone, to the which I thinke it not safe to approach.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And because the Loadstone hath another pole then that of the world, to the which from all parts it hath a respect, the neerer you come vnto it, the more the needle of the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The Loadstone is in Possession of the most remarkable, wonderfull and misterious
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Loadstone was also recommended as a sovereign remedy for this malady.
Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing George Barton Cutten
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Jack, while Loadstone was well beaten, to the chagrin of those who had tried to set him off against the better horse Surplice.
The Portland Peerage Romance Charles J. Archard
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