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 617
... reafon ; but in others is merely arbi- trary , and for that reafon is found to vary according to the languages and even according to the words in- troduced from one language into another . Thus the names of trees are generally feminine ...
... reafon ; but in others is merely arbi- trary , and for that reafon is found to vary according to the languages and even according to the words in- troduced from one language into another . Thus the names of trees are generally feminine ...
Page 642
... reafon indeed only extends to fuch trades , in the exercise whereof fkill is required : but another of their arguments goes much farther ; viz . that apprenticefhips are useful to the commonwealth , by employing of youth , and learn ...
... reafon indeed only extends to fuch trades , in the exercise whereof fkill is required : but another of their arguments goes much farther ; viz . that apprenticefhips are useful to the commonwealth , by employing of youth , and learn ...
Page 683
... reafon is , because the definitions of the terms are premised , and every body that reads a propofition has the fame idea of every part of it . Hence it is easy to put an end to all mathematical controverfies , by fhowing , either that ...
... reafon is , because the definitions of the terms are premised , and every body that reads a propofition has the fame idea of every part of it . Hence it is easy to put an end to all mathematical controverfies , by fhowing , either that ...
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