Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Miscellaneous Litterature, 5. köide,1. number1810 - 400 pages |
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... lefs bitter ; and the darker coloured and more deeply jagged they are , the bitterer is their taste . Wild fuccory is an useful detergent , aperient , and at- tenuating medicine , acting without much irritation , tending rather to cool ...
... lefs bitter ; and the darker coloured and more deeply jagged they are , the bitterer is their taste . Wild fuccory is an useful detergent , aperient , and at- tenuating medicine , acting without much irritation , tending rather to cool ...
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... fierce countenances and terrible appearance of thefe barba- rians , that nothing could prevent their flying before them . The city of Rome was now totally defence- B lels ; Cimbri , lefs ; and , had the Cimbri only CIM CIM [ 9 ]
... fierce countenances and terrible appearance of thefe barba- rians , that nothing could prevent their flying before them . The city of Rome was now totally defence- B lels ; Cimbri , lefs ; and , had the Cimbri only CIM CIM [ 9 ]
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... lefs from a fresh infufion than from a fresh decoction ; and in the precipitate of this laft fome mild earth is perceptible . The infufion is by age reduced to the fame ftate with the fresh decoction , and then they depofite nearly an ...
... lefs from a fresh infufion than from a fresh decoction ; and in the precipitate of this laft fome mild earth is perceptible . The infufion is by age reduced to the fame ftate with the fresh decoction , and then they depofite nearly an ...
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... lefs famous for his Italian poems ; and is ranked among those who first gave graces to the Tufcan lyric poetry . CINYRA , in the Jewish antiquities , a mufical in- ftrument . This , and the Hebrew cinnor , which is ge- nerally ...
... lefs famous for his Italian poems ; and is ranked among those who first gave graces to the Tufcan lyric poetry . CINYRA , in the Jewish antiquities , a mufical in- ftrument . This , and the Hebrew cinnor , which is ge- nerally ...
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... lefs , nefs , & c . On Plate CXXXVII . * fig . 7. is given an example of a cipher wrote in arbitrary characters as is commonly practifed . It will be eafily deciphered by observing the rules : but when the characters are all placed ...
... lefs , nefs , & c . On Plate CXXXVII . * fig . 7. is given an example of a cipher wrote in arbitrary characters as is commonly practifed . It will be eafily deciphered by observing the rules : but when the characters are all placed ...
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