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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... nature or art . Such is the general fignification of the word ; but in the plural number it has been ufed , in a particular fenfe , to denote thofe ex- ternal marks by which phyfiognomifts and other dabblers in the occult fciences ...
... nature or art . Such is the general fignification of the word ; but in the plural number it has been ufed , in a particular fenfe , to denote thofe ex- ternal marks by which phyfiognomifts and other dabblers in the occult fciences ...
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... nature , where all have equal rights , no individual can submit himself to the absolute difpofal of another without being guilty of the greatest The reason is obvious . From the relation in crime . which men ftand to one another as ...
... nature , where all have equal rights , no individual can submit himself to the absolute difpofal of another without being guilty of the greatest The reason is obvious . From the relation in crime . which men ftand to one another as ...
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... nature ; and alfo numbers of fhort hiftories of nature , arts , manufactures , ufeful en . gines , contrivances , & c . The fervices which they have rendered to the public are very great . They have im . proved naval , civil , and ...
... nature ; and alfo numbers of fhort hiftories of nature , arts , manufactures , ufeful en . gines , contrivances , & c . The fervices which they have rendered to the public are very great . They have im . proved naval , civil , and ...
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