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The season at hand , cight or ten thousand jough state , were much heavier than others of the same persons , of all ages and sexes , come out of Soumel- biguess , especially if they were cloudy or fvul ; and pour and the neighbouring ...
The season at hand , cight or ten thousand jough state , were much heavier than others of the same persons , of all ages and sexes , come out of Soumel- biguess , especially if they were cloudy or fvul ; and pour and the neighbouring ...
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Sometimes the ap- consisting of hermaphrodite plants ; which , as the pears with sings , holding a lion in one hand and a name imports , have flowers with two ftamina or malc panther in the other , with a chariot drawn by two organs ...
Sometimes the ap- consisting of hermaphrodite plants ; which , as the pears with sings , holding a lion in one hand and a name imports , have flowers with two ftamina or malc panther in the other , with a chariot drawn by two organs ...
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These examples were given rather is larger or more commodious than this stone or this with a view to show the manner in which a work of house , which is supposed to be at hand . In the this kind might be conducted , than as perfect and ...
These examples were given rather is larger or more commodious than this stone or this with a view to show the manner in which a work of house , which is supposed to be at hand . In the this kind might be conducted , than as perfect and ...
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... those wonTheir favourite attitude is to lland with one side for- derful communications of the inward parts , wherely , ward , and one hand grasping across the back the op- when one part is affected , another comes immediately posite ...
... those wonTheir favourite attitude is to lland with one side for- derful communications of the inward parts , wherely , ward , and one hand grasping across the back the op- when one part is affected , another comes immediately posite ...
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23 . cise ; Cicero , on the other hand , is diffuse . DIEU ET MON DROIT , i . e . God and my right , the DIFFUSION , the dispersion of the fubtile effluvia motto of the royal arms of England , first assumed by of bodies into a kind of ...
23 . cise ; Cicero , on the other hand , is diffuse . DIEU ET MON DROIT , i . e . God and my right , the DIFFUSION , the dispersion of the fubtile effluvia motto of the royal arms of England , first assumed by of bodies into a kind of ...
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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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