Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 1. köide,2. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Page 598
... refpect to the form of the coated glafs , the for jars , & c . theory prefcribes that which will occafion fuch a diftri . bution of the electric fluid as fhall make its repulfion for the fluid in the canal which connects it with the ...
... refpect to the form of the coated glafs , the for jars , & c . theory prefcribes that which will occafion fuch a diftri . bution of the electric fluid as fhall make its repulfion for the fluid in the canal which connects it with the ...
Page 746
... refpect to giving active powers to matter , therefore , the followers of Hutchinfon rave juft as much as thofe of Newton ; and we fee not the ra- ving of either in any other light than as the necessary confequence of the poverty of ...
... refpect to giving active powers to matter , therefore , the followers of Hutchinfon rave juft as much as thofe of Newton ; and we fee not the ra- ving of either in any other light than as the necessary confequence of the poverty of ...
Page 779
... refpect even to the lowest of which , his degree of priest will be found no more than child's play . " The ritual of thefe degrees , ( fays he ) , I ne- ver fuffer to go out of my hands . It is of too ferious an import ; it is the key ...
... refpect even to the lowest of which , his degree of priest will be found no more than child's play . " The ritual of thefe degrees , ( fays he ) , I ne- ver fuffer to go out of my hands . It is of too ferious an import ; it is the key ...
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