Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 17. köide,2. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Page 503
... seems to have paffed over them almost instantaneously , it con- tinued to blow fo as to exhaust them till twenty minutes before five in the afternoon , lafting through all its flages very near fix hours , and leaving them in a state of ...
... seems to have paffed over them almost instantaneously , it con- tinued to blow fo as to exhaust them till twenty minutes before five in the afternoon , lafting through all its flages very near fix hours , and leaving them in a state of ...
Page 588
... seem to lead towards them ; and they oblige themselves to oppofe the affectation of brilliancies , and the oftentation of empty fpeculation , when compared with plain , fimple , and ufeful facts . The object of the fociety is phyfical ...
... seem to lead towards them ; and they oblige themselves to oppofe the affectation of brilliancies , and the oftentation of empty fpeculation , when compared with plain , fimple , and ufeful facts . The object of the fociety is phyfical ...
Page 593
... seems on the ground of the admonitions which he profeffed to have received from an invifible power , he disclaimed , by pleading that it was no new thing for men to confult the gods and receive inftructions from them . To refute the ...
... seems on the ground of the admonitions which he profeffed to have received from an invifible power , he disclaimed , by pleading that it was no new thing for men to confult the gods and receive inftructions from them . To refute the ...
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