Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Nide 2,Osa 1Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Sivu 34
... case , the spring plaits , and the whole internal apparatus moves , till the fpring , the pifton , and the barrel , have entirely efcaped . from the cafe . When this is effected , all the rest in- ftantly follow , and the milty liquor ...
... case , the spring plaits , and the whole internal apparatus moves , till the fpring , the pifton , and the barrel , have entirely efcaped . from the cafe . When this is effected , all the rest in- ftantly follow , and the milty liquor ...
Sivu 74
... case , though even this may exceed the time of doubling . Years of the World . 500 540 580 620 660 700 Number of Mankind . 200 400 800 1,600 3,200 6,400 1. It cannot be denied but that the Antediluvians were 740 ANT [ 74 ] ANT.
... case , though even this may exceed the time of doubling . Years of the World . 500 540 580 620 660 700 Number of Mankind . 200 400 800 1,600 3,200 6,400 1. It cannot be denied but that the Antediluvians were 740 ANT [ 74 ] ANT.
Sivu 77
... case , & c . ANTEPREDICAMENTS , among logicians , cer- tain preliminary questions which illuftrate the doctrine of predicaments and categories . ANTEQUIERA , a handiome town of Spain , in the kingdom of Granada , divided into two parts ...
... case , & c . ANTEPREDICAMENTS , among logicians , cer- tain preliminary questions which illuftrate the doctrine of predicaments and categories . ANTEQUIERA , a handiome town of Spain , in the kingdom of Granada , divided into two parts ...
Sivu 84
... case the perfon thus fubftituted denied himself to be the richeft , they were to exchange eftates , after this manner : the doors of their houses were clofe shut up and fealed , that nothing might be conveyed away ; then both took an ...
... case the perfon thus fubftituted denied himself to be the richeft , they were to exchange eftates , after this manner : the doors of their houses were clofe shut up and fealed , that nothing might be conveyed away ; then both took an ...
Sivu 94
... case it will be no longer the antipathy which we have defined . 2. We muft abftract thofe antipathies which can be extinguifhed or refumed at pleasure ; those fictitious a- verfions , which certain perfons feel , or pretend to feel ...
... case it will be no longer the antipathy which we have defined . 2. We muft abftract thofe antipathies which can be extinguifhed or refumed at pleasure ; those fictitious a- verfions , which certain perfons feel , or pretend to feel ...
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Sivu 329 - I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart of a King, and of a King of England too...
Sivu 71 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
Sivu 377 - ... spontaneously; but if a man plants ten of them in his lifetime, which he may do in about an hour, he will as completely fulfil his duty to his own and future generations, as the native of our less temperate climate can do by ploughing in the cold of winter, and reaping in the summer's heat, as often as these seasons return...
Sivu 91 - ... in a bed of water. In order, however, to be more certain, we sent in a Levantine mariner, who, by the promise of a good reward, ventured, with a flambeau in his hand, into this narrow aperture.
Sivu 139 - ... being paid in proportion to the little work which he could execute, and paying in his turn for the materials which he might sometimes spoil through awkwardness and inexperience.
Sivu 141 - ), would have been by the rules of the common law disappropriated, had not a clause in those statutes intervened, to give them to the king in as ample a manner as the abbots, &c. formerly held the same, at the time of their dissolution.
Sivu 223 - I would call the SAXON architecture. But our Norman works had a very different original. When the Goths had conquered Spain, and the genial warmth of the climate, and the religion of the old inhabitants...
Sivu 215 - ... and that it is the more permanent, in proportion as it recedes the more from its natural colour. Prepared archil very readily gives out its colour to water, to volatile spirits, and to alcohol ; it is the substance principally made use of for colouring the spirits of thermometers.
Sivu 50 - An annuity for a long term of years, therefore, though its intrinsic value may be very nearly the same with that of a perpetual annuity, will not find nearly the same number of purchasers. The subscribers to a new loan, who mean generally to...
Sivu 91 - ... a table. Upon our egress from this amazing cavern, we perceived a Greek inscription upon a rock at the mouth, but so obliterated by time, that we could not read it distinctly.