Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Miscellaneous Litterature, 5. köide,1. number1810 - 400 pages |
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... contains at leaft as much ex- tractive matter , but more in a state of folution ; and its colour , on ftanding fome time with the chalybeate , be- comes darker , while that of the decoction becomes more faint . When they are of a ...
... contains at leaft as much ex- tractive matter , but more in a state of folution ; and its colour , on ftanding fome time with the chalybeate , be- comes darker , while that of the decoction becomes more faint . When they are of a ...
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... contain two alphabets in fucceffion , that fome letter of that part may conftantly correfpond to one in the lower ... containing a fin- gle and the other a double alphabet , would answer ex- actly the fame purpofe . In this cafe a blank ...
... contain two alphabets in fucceffion , that fome letter of that part may conftantly correfpond to one in the lower ... containing a fin- gle and the other a double alphabet , would answer ex- actly the fame purpofe . In this cafe a blank ...
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... contains all those - ftars which never appear in our hemifphere . The ftars fituated between these circles . alternately rife and fet at : certain times . Polar CIRCLES , are immoveable circles , parallel to the equator , and at a ...
... contains all those - ftars which never appear in our hemifphere . The ftars fituated between these circles . alternately rife and fet at : certain times . Polar CIRCLES , are immoveable circles , parallel to the equator , and at a ...
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... contained , the firft one hundred and forty , the fecond fix hundred and fifty two , and occupied many acres of ground . All thefe different numbers and measures and arrangements had their pretended reference ; either to the aftronomi ...
... contained , the firft one hundred and forty , the fecond fix hundred and fifty two , and occupied many acres of ground . All thefe different numbers and measures and arrangements had their pretended reference ; either to the aftronomi ...
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... contained together ; so that the whole care is divided betwixt the gardener and nature : the former , with his ligaments of leather , fecures the main branches ; and nature , with thofe of her own providing , fecures the lefs . Their ...
... contained together ; so that the whole care is divided betwixt the gardener and nature : the former , with his ligaments of leather , fecures the main branches ; and nature , with thofe of her own providing , fecures the lefs . Their ...
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