Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Miscellaneous Litterature, 5. köide,1. number1810 - 400 pages |
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... fire . These are the characters of what the ancients called fimply terra ci- molia : but befides this , they had , from the fame place , another earth which they called by the fame general name , but diftinguished by the epithet purple ...
... fire . These are the characters of what the ancients called fimply terra ci- molia : but befides this , they had , from the fame place , another earth which they called by the fame general name , but diftinguished by the epithet purple ...
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... fire on red hot coals , by which the mercury is difen- gaged and forms vapours , which , being applied to the body of the difeafed perfon , penetrate through the pores of the fkin , and produce effects fimilar to thofe of mercury ...
... fire on red hot coals , by which the mercury is difen- gaged and forms vapours , which , being applied to the body of the difeafed perfon , penetrate through the pores of the fkin , and produce effects fimilar to thofe of mercury ...
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... fire , 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 ...
... fire , 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 ...
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... fire ; then add as much water as will jutt make the matter milky ( which will be about 7 quarts or 2 gallons ) ; and laftly , add two pounds of fine fugar . This compofition may be improved by fresh elder flowers , hung in a cloth in ...
... fire ; then add as much water as will jutt make the matter milky ( which will be about 7 quarts or 2 gallons ) ; and laftly , add two pounds of fine fugar . This compofition may be improved by fresh elder flowers , hung in a cloth in ...
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... fire - place with a flue or two carried alongst a low wall in the fronts and ends . To have the trees as ftandards , a more capacious and lofty glafs - cafe fhould be erected against the wall , in the manner of a hot houfe , but higher ...
... fire - place with a flue or two carried alongst a low wall in the fronts and ends . To have the trees as ftandards , a more capacious and lofty glafs - cafe fhould be erected against the wall , in the manner of a hot houfe , but higher ...
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