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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... former of these philofophers admitted of only four predicables , all different from those of the ancients ; the latter at firft extended the number to feven , but afterwards reduced it to three ; among which none of the ancient ...
... former of these philofophers admitted of only four predicables , all different from those of the ancients ; the latter at firft extended the number to feven , but afterwards reduced it to three ; among which none of the ancient ...
Page x
... former editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica were honoured by the Public ; the ftill greater encouragement which has been given to the prefent ; and the adoption of the plan by the editors of other repofitories of arts and fciences ...
... former editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica were honoured by the Public ; the ftill greater encouragement which has been given to the prefent ; and the adoption of the plan by the editors of other repofitories of arts and fciences ...
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... former , it is not perhaps too much to say , that in all the fubdivifions of its three great kingdoms , it will be found more fully , more accurately , and more fcientifically , detailed in this Work than in any other dictionary which ...
... former , it is not perhaps too much to say , that in all the fubdivifions of its three great kingdoms , it will be found more fully , more accurately , and more fcientifically , detailed in this Work than in any other dictionary which ...
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... former , induced the trustees for his children , together with Mr Bell the furviving partner , to requeft the latter to undertake the tafk which their deceased friend had hitherto discharged with so much credit to himself . In this ...
... former , induced the trustees for his children , together with Mr Bell the furviving partner , to requeft the latter to undertake the tafk which their deceased friend had hitherto discharged with so much credit to himself . In this ...
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... former of these gentlemen the world will foon receive one of the most splendid anatomical works which it has yet feen ; and as the latter has long officiated under Dr Monro as diffector in the anatomical school of the university of ...
... former of these gentlemen the world will foon receive one of the most splendid anatomical works which it has yet feen ; and as the latter has long officiated under Dr Monro as diffector in the anatomical school of the university of ...
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