Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Miscellaneous Litterature, 5. köide,1. number1810 - 400 pages |
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... fall to Cicero's fhare ; and that part of it , for it was confiderable enough to be di- vided into two provinces , which was called Lilybaum . This office he received , not as a gift , but a truft ; and he acquitted himself fo well in ...
... fall to Cicero's fhare ; and that part of it , for it was confiderable enough to be di- vided into two provinces , which was called Lilybaum . This office he received , not as a gift , but a truft ; and he acquitted himself fo well in ...
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... fall into it ; a fpot of ground is fometimes entirely perforated in this manner . The infects belonging to this genus are in general very beautiful , and merit the attention of the curious in their microscopic obfervations ; fome are ...
... fall into it ; a fpot of ground is fometimes entirely perforated in this manner . The infects belonging to this genus are in general very beautiful , and merit the attention of the curious in their microscopic obfervations ; fome are ...
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... fall down from the mountains . It lies on the eastern coaft of the fea of Ca- lifornia , and has a town of the fame name , fituated in W. Long . 110. N. Lat . 26 . CINARA , in botany , the ARTICHOKE . See CY- NARA . On its firft ...
... fall down from the mountains . It lies on the eastern coaft of the fea of Ca- lifornia , and has a town of the fame name , fituated in W. Long . 110. N. Lat . 26 . CINARA , in botany , the ARTICHOKE . See CY- NARA . On its firft ...
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... falls back , to be returned and difilled feveral times . CIRCULATION of Money . See COMMERCE , and Mo- NEY . Subterranean CIRCULATION . See SPRINGS . CIRCULUS , in chemistry , an iron inftrument in form of a ring , which being heated ...
... falls back , to be returned and difilled feveral times . CIRCULATION of Money . See COMMERCE , and Mo- NEY . Subterranean CIRCULATION . See SPRINGS . CIRCULUS , in chemistry , an iron inftrument in form of a ring , which being heated ...
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... falls or lowers it : the circumflex is a kind of undulation , or wavering of the voice , between the two . It is feldom used among the moderns , unless to show the omiffion of a letter which made the fyllable long and open ; a thing ...
... falls or lowers it : the circumflex is a kind of undulation , or wavering of the voice , between the two . It is feldom used among the moderns , unless to show the omiffion of a letter which made the fyllable long and open ; a thing ...
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