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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... effect , and vice versa , a communication might be opened between the several parts of the work , and the de- tached articles be in fome measure replaced in the natural order of science , out of which the alphabetical order had removed ...
... effect , and vice versa , a communication might be opened between the several parts of the work , and the de- tached articles be in fome measure replaced in the natural order of science , out of which the alphabetical order had removed ...
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... effect an immediate re- treat , without turning to the right or left ; or , in the fea- phrase , to give the fhip Stern - way , in order to avoid fome danger discovered before her in a narrow channel , or when she has advanced beyond ...
... effect an immediate re- treat , without turning to the right or left ; or , in the fea- phrase , to give the fhip Stern - way , in order to avoid fome danger discovered before her in a narrow channel , or when she has advanced beyond ...
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... effect levied a power- ful army ; but death put a stop to all his great defigns , at 37 years of age , in 1666 . ABASCIA , or ABCAS , a country in Afia , tribu- tary to the Turks , fituated on the coaft of the Black Sea . The people are ...
... effect levied a power- ful army ; but death put a stop to all his great defigns , at 37 years of age , in 1666 . ABASCIA , or ABCAS , a country in Afia , tribu- tary to the Turks , fituated on the coaft of the Black Sea . The people are ...
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... effect as the Latin ablative . ABLE , or ABEL ( Thomas ) , chaplain to qucen Ca- tharine confort to Henry VIII . diftinguifhed himself by his zeal in oppofing the proceedings against that unfortunate princefs for a divorce . For this ...
... effect as the Latin ablative . ABLE , or ABEL ( Thomas ) , chaplain to qucen Ca- tharine confort to Henry VIII . diftinguifhed himself by his zeal in oppofing the proceedings against that unfortunate princefs for a divorce . For this ...
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... effect of fharp corrofive medicines or humours in wearing away the natural mucus which co- vers the membranes , and particularly thofe of the fto- mach and intestines . The word is compofed of the Latin ab and rado , to fhave or fcrape ...
... effect of fharp corrofive medicines or humours in wearing away the natural mucus which co- vers the membranes , and particularly thofe of the fto- mach and intestines . The word is compofed of the Latin ab and rado , to fhave or fcrape ...
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