Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Miscellaneous Litterature, 5. köide,1. number1810 - 400 pages |
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... common fort ; but Linnæus has de- feribed the latter under the old name of CONIUM . See that article . There are three fpecies of water - hemlock ; the virofa , the bulbifera , and the maculata . Of these the first is the only one ...
... common fort ; but Linnæus has de- feribed the latter under the old name of CONIUM . See that article . There are three fpecies of water - hemlock ; the virofa , the bulbifera , and the maculata . Of these the first is the only one ...
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... common use . Soon af ter it was brought to London , it was tried in St Bar- tholomew's Hofpital , and in other hofpitals about town , and was faid to be more efficacious than the quill bark . This put practitioners on examining in- to ...
... common use . Soon af ter it was brought to London , it was tried in St Bar- tholomew's Hofpital , and in other hofpitals about town , and was faid to be more efficacious than the quill bark . This put practitioners on examining in- to ...
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... common at the ends of words is s , and the next frequent r and t . 4. When two fimilar characters come together , they are most likely to be the confonants f , l , or s , or the vowels e or o . 5. The letter that precedes or follows two ...
... common at the ends of words is s , and the next frequent r and t . 4. When two fimilar characters come together , they are most likely to be the confonants f , l , or s , or the vowels e or o . 5. The letter that precedes or follows two ...
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... common pack . II . By a dial . On a piece of fquare patteboard ABCD , fig . 3. 4. draw the circle EFGH , and divide it into 26 equal parts , in each of which must be wrote one of the letters of the alphabet . I shall be much obliged to ...
... common pack . II . By a dial . On a piece of fquare patteboard ABCD , fig . 3. 4. draw the circle EFGH , and divide it into 26 equal parts , in each of which must be wrote one of the letters of the alphabet . I shall be much obliged to ...
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... common pole in the zenith , and still diminishing as they approach the zenith . See ALMUCANTAR . 20 ] Circe table commodity which a traveller can carry with him in to the Tartar countries . There are here no public inns , which indeed ...
... common pole in the zenith , and still diminishing as they approach the zenith . See ALMUCANTAR . 20 ] Circe table commodity which a traveller can carry with him in to the Tartar countries . There are here no public inns , which indeed ...
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