Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 11. köide,2. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Page 406
... says , that he began to reign at Babylon 26 years after the begin- ning of the era of Nabonaffar , that is , in the year of the world 2283 . In the year 1560 , near the island of Manar , on the stern coast of the island of Ceylon , fome ...
... says , that he began to reign at Babylon 26 years after the begin- ning of the era of Nabonaffar , that is , in the year of the world 2283 . In the year 1560 , near the island of Manar , on the stern coast of the island of Ceylon , fome ...
Page 434
... says , that it is a luna cornea , or filver combined with marine acid ; and that it is incapable of being de- compofed but by fubftances which can unite with that acid . This latter opinion feems to be the moft obable ; as the ore ...
... says , that it is a luna cornea , or filver combined with marine acid ; and that it is incapable of being de- compofed but by fubftances which can unite with that acid . This latter opinion feems to be the moft obable ; as the ore ...
Page 525
... say be true or false , because he has no idea or conception of the things of which you speak . This is not the cafe with refpest to power ; for every man who has reflected on the operations of his own mind has a very diftin & t no- tion ...
... say be true or false , because he has no idea or conception of the things of which you speak . This is not the cafe with refpest to power ; for every man who has reflected on the operations of his own mind has a very diftin & t no- tion ...
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