British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, 10. köideMitchell, Ames, and White, 1821 |
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... distance ; it is very common in Barbadoes and Japan . PHYLICA , in botany , a genus of the Pentandria Monogynia class and order . Natural order of Dumosæ . Rhamni , Jus- sieu . Essential character : perianth five- parted , turbinate ...
... distance ; it is very common in Barbadoes and Japan . PHYLICA , in botany , a genus of the Pentandria Monogynia class and order . Natural order of Dumosæ . Rhamni , Jus- sieu . Essential character : perianth five- parted , turbinate ...
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... distance from the pupil , is in flakes , and round ; but the blue so far overpow- ers it , that the eye assumes the appear- ance of being wholly of that colour . The fire and vivacity emitted by the eye can- not be so powerful in those ...
... distance from the pupil , is in flakes , and round ; but the blue so far overpow- ers it , that the eye assumes the appear- ance of being wholly of that colour . The fire and vivacity emitted by the eye can- not be so powerful in those ...
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... distance in quest of nourishment for the plant to which they belong ; their action is quiet and constant , being liable to interruption only when drought deprives them of the necessary juices . Animals , on the contrary , fixed to no ...
... distance in quest of nourishment for the plant to which they belong ; their action is quiet and constant , being liable to interruption only when drought deprives them of the necessary juices . Animals , on the contrary , fixed to no ...
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... distance through which it passes in a given time , nor the velocity of its course , can be de- fined with any certainty ; much less can we form any accurate estimate of the ob- stacles which occur to the blood's motion , which must ...
... distance through which it passes in a given time , nor the velocity of its course , can be de- fined with any certainty ; much less can we form any accurate estimate of the ob- stacles which occur to the blood's motion , which must ...
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... distance and figure of objects , were it not corrected and assisted by the touch . The person born blind , mentioned by Cheselden , thought when he had gained his sight , that all ob- jects touched his eyes . A square tower , at a great ...
... distance and figure of objects , were it not corrected and assisted by the touch . The person born blind , mentioned by Cheselden , thought when he had gained his sight , that all ob- jects touched his eyes . A square tower , at a great ...
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