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 477
... first kind : the propriety or impropriety of introduction comes under the other . - To begin with rules of the first kind ; fome of which coincide with thofe already given for fimilies ; fome are peculiar to metaphors and allegories ...
... first kind : the propriety or impropriety of introduction comes under the other . - To begin with rules of the first kind ; fome of which coincide with thofe already given for fimilies ; fome are peculiar to metaphors and allegories ...
Page 503
... first and laft ; but brutes have no idea of time , or of first and last ; and it is certain that they have not consciousness or reflection , by which only they could review their own operations . At the fame time he admits , that imagi ...
... first and laft ; but brutes have no idea of time , or of first and last ; and it is certain that they have not consciousness or reflection , by which only they could review their own operations . At the fame time he admits , that imagi ...
Page 688
... first on each fide will take in one - third of that before it , e . g . beginning at A , of which the first third must be left out ; a third of B vill confequently be taken in , and fo of the reft . Thefe lines of the fecond order must ...
... first on each fide will take in one - third of that before it , e . g . beginning at A , of which the first third must be left out ; a third of B vill confequently be taken in , and fo of the reft . Thefe lines of the fecond order must ...
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