He had come at the time to New York to read a course of lectures.
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In the year 1788 delivered a course of lectures on animal magnetism at Bristol, and afterwards in London.
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The book was based on a course of lectures he had given.
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After a course of lectures in that city he was again forced to spend some time in a hospital with valvular heart trouble.
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In the spring of 1824 Smith went to York to deliver a course of lectures on geology, and his nephew Phillips accompanied him.
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Thus during the session 1778-1779, in addition to his mathematical work, he delivered an original course of lectures on morals.
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He felt, in fact, compelled to begin by spending some time in arguing out the justification of the appropriateness of his undertaking a course of lectures.
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There, in 1762 William Shippen the younger, after a sojourn of five years abroad, began, in the very year of his return home, a course of lectures on midwifery.
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But his first course of lectures on Sound were a complete failure, owing to an invincible repugnance to public speaking, and a distrust of his powers in that direction.