The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volum 6Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - 666 sider |
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... extremely rapa- cious and devouring , and not unfrequently prey upon each other . Those are most esteemed which are found in the coldest streams , and they are generally regarded as an elegant and luxurious article of food . They appear ...
... extremely rapa- cious and devouring , and not unfrequently prey upon each other . Those are most esteemed which are found in the coldest streams , and they are generally regarded as an elegant and luxurious article of food . They appear ...
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... extremely rapid . For if the motion of light were infinite , or came to us in an in- stant , it is evident that we should see the commencement of an eclipse of a satellite at the same moment , at whatever distance we might be from it ...
... extremely rapid . For if the motion of light were infinite , or came to us in an in- stant , it is evident that we should see the commencement of an eclipse of a satellite at the same moment , at whatever distance we might be from it ...
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... extremely offensive and trouble- some . Their numerous young , hatched from the eggs which they had lodged under ground , near the surface of the earth , did still more harm in that close retirement than all the flying swarms of their ...
... extremely offensive and trouble- some . Their numerous young , hatched from the eggs which they had lodged under ground , near the surface of the earth , did still more harm in that close retirement than all the flying swarms of their ...
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... extremely active and nim- ble , climbing trees with great rapidity , and bounding from one to another with a spring truly astonishing . Some are supplied with membranes , which enable them to extend this leap into something ...
... extremely active and nim- ble , climbing trees with great rapidity , and bounding from one to another with a spring truly astonishing . Some are supplied with membranes , which enable them to extend this leap into something ...
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... extremely distant from each other , presents such a surface to the air beneath as gives it considerable buoyancy , and converts its elastic bounds into a species of flight . The membrane is also highly serviceable in cherishing the ...
... extremely distant from each other , presents such a surface to the air beneath as gives it considerable buoyancy , and converts its elastic bounds into a species of flight . The membrane is also highly serviceable in cherishing the ...
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