Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 1. köide,1. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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... contain fome information of the transactions of those who have been in poffeffion of the world before us ; of the various revolutions of ftates and empires ; and of all the other means which have contributed to bring every thing into ...
... contain fome information of the transactions of those who have been in poffeffion of the world before us ; of the various revolutions of ftates and empires ; and of all the other means which have contributed to bring every thing into ...
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... contain the numbers from 1 to 60 ; and its area , the facta of each two of the numbers perpendicularly oppofite . This is alfo called a canon of fexagefimals . ABACUS & Palmula , in the ancient mufic , denote the machinery , whereby the ...
... contain the numbers from 1 to 60 ; and its area , the facta of each two of the numbers perpendicularly oppofite . This is alfo called a canon of fexagefimals . ABACUS & Palmula , in the ancient mufic , denote the machinery , whereby the ...
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... contained in the medium , but the medium not fo evidently in the leffer extreme as not to require some farther medium or proof to make it ap- pear . It is called abduction , becaufe , from the con- clufion , it draws us on to prove the ...
... contained in the medium , but the medium not fo evidently in the leffer extreme as not to require some farther medium or proof to make it ap- pear . It is called abduction , becaufe , from the con- clufion , it draws us on to prove the ...
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... contain 25,000 people . Its trade is confiderable , but might be greatly extended by an attention to the white fifheries . The harbour was long a great detriment to its trade , and occafioned the lofs of many lives and much pro- perty ...
... contain 25,000 people . Its trade is confiderable , but might be greatly extended by an attention to the white fifheries . The harbour was long a great detriment to its trade , and occafioned the lofs of many lives and much pro- perty ...
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... contained in the library of the monaftery of the Holy Cross on Mount Ama- SKirchem's's ria , in Ethiopia § . The book on the creation was treatife of printed at Paris 1552 , and tranflated into Latin by lib aries , Poftel : Rittangel ...
... contained in the library of the monaftery of the Holy Cross on Mount Ama- SKirchem's's ria , in Ethiopia § . The book on the creation was treatife of printed at Paris 1552 , and tranflated into Latin by lib aries , Poftel : Rittangel ...
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