Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 10. köide,2. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Page 441
... neceffary to polish these bars ; though it will be better to do so , they being in this state much less liable to ruft . One extremity is generally marked with a line . all round , to diftinguifh one pole from another ; and it is the ...
... neceffary to polish these bars ; though it will be better to do so , they being in this state much less liable to ruft . One extremity is generally marked with a line . all round , to diftinguifh one pole from another ; and it is the ...
Page 514
... neceffary to its life and growth . It has lived , or rather enjoyed a kind of vegetable exiftence , which was shut up within itself , and which it was in capable of communicating . In this first stage of life , reason is still asleep ...
... neceffary to its life and growth . It has lived , or rather enjoyed a kind of vegetable exiftence , which was shut up within itself , and which it was in capable of communicating . In this first stage of life , reason is still asleep ...
Page 639
... neceffary , the yards must be extremely fhort , that they may not entangle each other in working the ship , and by confequence their fails will be very narrow , and receive a small portion of wind . If , on the contrary , there is not a ...
... neceffary , the yards must be extremely fhort , that they may not entangle each other in working the ship , and by confequence their fails will be very narrow , and receive a small portion of wind . If , on the contrary , there is not a ...
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