Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 10. köide,1. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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... also a writing addreffed and fent to a perfon . See EPISTLE . Ward's Oratory . The art of epiftolary writing , as the late tranflator of Pliny's Letters has obferved , was efteemed by the Romans in the number of liberal and polite accom ...
... also a writing addreffed and fent to a perfon . See EPISTLE . Ward's Oratory . The art of epiftolary writing , as the late tranflator of Pliny's Letters has obferved , was efteemed by the Romans in the number of liberal and polite accom ...
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... also a name given to the eastern part of the Mediterranean fea , bounded by Natolia or the Leffer Afia on the north , by Syria and Palestine on the eaft , by Egypt and Barca on the fouth , and by the island of Candia and the other part ...
... also a name given to the eastern part of the Mediterranean fea , bounded by Natolia or the Leffer Afia on the north , by Syria and Palestine on the eaft , by Egypt and Barca on the fouth , and by the island of Candia and the other part ...
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... also its ball under water , that one may obferve the liquor at D , in each experiment , when the thermometer ftands at the fame height as before . The water is poured out when the inftrument is carried ; which one may do conve- niently ...
... also its ball under water , that one may obferve the liquor at D , in each experiment , when the thermometer ftands at the fame height as before . The water is poured out when the inftrument is carried ; which one may do conve- niently ...
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... also made with two cups fitted to the two ends . of a pipe , three or four feet long , about an inch in diameter , by means whereof the water communicates from the one to the other cup ; and this pipe being * moveable on its ftand by ...
... also made with two cups fitted to the two ends . of a pipe , three or four feet long , about an inch in diameter , by means whereof the water communicates from the one to the other cup ; and this pipe being * moveable on its ftand by ...
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... also sometimes fixed a compafs- box I , divided into 360 degrees , and again into four 90 ° ; having a centre pin and needle , and trigger , at d , to throw off the needle from the centre when not used ; fo in this manner it conftitutes ...
... also sometimes fixed a compafs- box I , divided into 360 degrees , and again into four 90 ° ; having a centre pin and needle , and trigger , at d , to throw off the needle from the centre when not used ; fo in this manner it conftitutes ...
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Page 292 - ... to be precarious. The nobility, therefore, are the pillars, which are reared from among the people, more immediately to support the throne; and, if that falls, they must also be buried under its ruins.
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Page 292 - III. ; viz. that every lord spiritual or temporal summoned to parliament, and passing through the king's forests, may, both in going and returning, kill one or two of the king's deer, without warrant, in view of the forester if he be present, or on blowing a horn if he be absent, that he may not seem to take the king's venison by stealth.
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Page 233 - An immense forest originally extended to the river side, and, even as late as the reign of Henry II. covered the northern neighbourhood of the city, and was filled with various species of beasts of chase.
Page 292 - A body of nobility is also more peculiarly necessary in our mixed and compounded constitution, in order to support the rights of both the crown and the people, by forming a barrier to withstand the encroachments of both.
Page 392 - These being of different standing and proficiency, he was obliged to divide them into four or five classes, in each of which he employed a full hour every day, from the first of Nov. to the first of June. In the first class he taught the first six books of " Euclid's Elements," plain trigonometry, practical geometry, the elements of fortification, and an introduction to algebra.