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This term is chicily employed to express the be joined with all nouns which denote quantily , height of man and other animals ; and is applied quality , number , excellence , or defeels ; or such as to denote the height of the body only ...
This term is chicily employed to express the be joined with all nouns which denote quantily , height of man and other animals ; and is applied quality , number , excellence , or defeels ; or such as to denote the height of the body only ...
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With regard to animals , the general rule is ap- cases in which both these terms are applied , with plied , without any exceptions : tall , and not long , a greater difference of meaning ; thus we say a being employed to denote the ...
With regard to animals , the general rule is ap- cases in which both these terms are applied , with plied , without any exceptions : tall , and not long , a greater difference of meaning ; thus we say a being employed to denote the ...
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The of the animal from nose to tail is ten inches , and the tail dog - teeth are long ; the tongue is somewhat ciliated ; exceeds the length of head and body . Its whole figure and they have a pocket formed by a duplicature of the is of ...
The of the animal from nose to tail is ten inches , and the tail dog - teeth are long ; the tongue is somewhat ciliated ; exceeds the length of head and body . Its whole figure and they have a pocket formed by a duplicature of the is of ...
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This animal has a small head , distance from the rest . — The largest kanguroo which neck , and shoulders ; the body increasing in thickness has yet been shot , we are there told , weighed about to the rump .
This animal has a small head , distance from the rest . — The largest kanguroo which neck , and shoulders ; the body increasing in thickness has yet been shot , we are there told , weighed about to the rump .
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The animal was found near Engrinders corresponding with those in the upper jaw . deavour ' river , on the eastern coast of New Holland , 10. The Aying opoffum , a beautiful species , and with two young ones .
The animal was found near Engrinders corresponding with those in the upper jaw . deavour ' river , on the eastern coast of New Holland , 10. The Aying opoffum , a beautiful species , and with two young ones .
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| Pealkiri | Encyclop¿dia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 6. köide,1. osa Encyclop¿dia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Colin Macfarquhar |
| Editors | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 12 okt. 2007 |
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