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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Page viii
... method , and reducing their ideas to the order of nature , that mankind can make ( A ) To be convinced of the truth of this affertion , one needs but to caft his eye over the author's table of arrangement It is as follows . KNOWLEDGE is ...
... method , and reducing their ideas to the order of nature , that mankind can make ( A ) To be convinced of the truth of this affertion , one needs but to caft his eye over the author's table of arrangement It is as follows . KNOWLEDGE is ...
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... numerous nor very important ; for many fubjects , which have been fup- - posed to be omitted , are treated under titles different from thofe under which they have 1 have been looked for . Thus the method of calculating PREFACE . xiii.
... numerous nor very important ; for many fubjects , which have been fup- - posed to be omitted , are treated under titles different from thofe under which they have 1 have been looked for . Thus the method of calculating PREFACE . xiii.
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... method of calculating compound interefts , which one of our correfpondents cannot find in our Work , is taught in the article ALGEBRA ; that of coating mirrors , of which another complains that no account is given , will be found under ...
... method of calculating compound interefts , which one of our correfpondents cannot find in our Work , is taught in the article ALGEBRA ; that of coating mirrors , of which another complains that no account is given , will be found under ...
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... method than he did any other . This diftinction could not but be very advantageous to Abaris . The Hyperborean , in return , prefented the Samian , as though he equalled Apollo himself in wif dom , with the facred arrow , on which the ...
... method than he did any other . This diftinction could not but be very advantageous to Abaris . The Hyperborean , in return , prefented the Samian , as though he equalled Apollo himself in wif dom , with the facred arrow , on which the ...
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... method may be followed . It would be foreign to our plan to give ex- amples of abridgements for the public : But as it may be useful , especially to young people , to know how to abridge books for their own ufe , after giving a few di ...
... method may be followed . It would be foreign to our plan to give ex- amples of abridgements for the public : But as it may be useful , especially to young people , to know how to abridge books for their own ufe , after giving a few di ...
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