Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 7. köide,2. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Page 458
... seems pro- bable that he himself confidered on what he should fay to any illuftrious perfon who happened to come to his court . His univerfal knowledge enabled him to converfe on all fubjects ; and thus he talked of war with military ...
... seems pro- bable that he himself confidered on what he should fay to any illuftrious perfon who happened to come to his court . His univerfal knowledge enabled him to converfe on all fubjects ; and thus he talked of war with military ...
Page 501
... seems to have been a conftant rule to recede as much as poffible in habit and behaviour from their ordinary cuftoms . For this reason they abstained from banquets and entertainments ; they divefted themselves of all or naments ; they ...
... seems to have been a conftant rule to recede as much as poffible in habit and behaviour from their ordinary cuftoms . For this reason they abstained from banquets and entertainments ; they divefted themselves of all or naments ; they ...
Page 582
... seems not to poffefs any property abfolutely detrimental to them , further than as it con- tains none , or only a fmall quantity , of that phlogistic matter , which is now found to be the proper food of plants . The heat produced by it ...
... seems not to poffefs any property abfolutely detrimental to them , further than as it con- tains none , or only a fmall quantity , of that phlogistic matter , which is now found to be the proper food of plants . The heat produced by it ...
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