Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 4. köide,2. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Page 558
... Some vitriolic acid came over into the receiver ; and after breaking the retort , a mafs was found in it weighing 12 drachms , hard and white in the in- fide , but red on the outfide . A great part of it dif- folved in diftilled water ...
... Some vitriolic acid came over into the receiver ; and after breaking the retort , a mafs was found in it weighing 12 drachms , hard and white in the in- fide , but red on the outfide . A great part of it dif- folved in diftilled water ...
Page 621
... Some coals , particularly those of animal fubitances , can fcarce be reduced to ashes , ib . Bullock's blood affords a coal of this kind , ib . Concrete oily fubflances , or foot , burn with equal difficulty , ib . some of thefe coals ...
... Some coals , particularly those of animal fubitances , can fcarce be reduced to ashes , ib . Bullock's blood affords a coal of this kind , ib . Concrete oily fubflances , or foot , burn with equal difficulty , ib . some of thefe coals ...
Page 699
... some diftreffed damiel was the ipang and mover of every knight's adventure . She was to be refcued by his arms , or won by the fame and admiration of his prow- efs . The plain meaning of all which was this : That as , in theie turbulent ...
... some diftreffed damiel was the ipang and mover of every knight's adventure . She was to be refcued by his arms , or won by the fame and admiration of his prow- efs . The plain meaning of all which was this : That as , in theie turbulent ...
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