A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and Derivations of the Scientific Terms in General Use, Together with the History and Descriptions of the Scientific Principles of Nearly Every Branch of Human Knowledge, Volum 1William Thomas Brande Longmans, Green and Company, 1867 |
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... kind of plan- to the positions which they occupy , is entirely tain growing abundantly in the Philippine analogous to our numerical system of digits . Islands . Of the fibres of this tree a cordage is The form of the instrument admitted ...
... kind of plan- to the positions which they occupy , is entirely tain growing abundantly in the Philippine analogous to our numerical system of digits . Islands . Of the fibres of this tree a cordage is The form of the instrument admitted ...
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... kind . Its success led to the publication of other abridgements of the same kind , of which the Abrégé Chronologique de l'Histoire de l ' Allemagne , by Pfeffel , is pro- bably the best . ABRIDGEMENT . In Law , a declaration or count ...
... kind . Its success led to the publication of other abridgements of the same kind , of which the Abrégé Chronologique de l'Histoire de l ' Allemagne , by Pfeffel , is pro- bably the best . ABRIDGEMENT . In Law , a declaration or count ...
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... kind of butter is made . Adytum ( Gr . áður , from à , neg . , and dúw , to enter ) . The shrine , or holy of holies , in temples where oracles were given or where the worship was connected with mysteries . To this shrine only priests ...
... kind of butter is made . Adytum ( Gr . áður , from à , neg . , and dúw , to enter ) . The shrine , or holy of holies , in temples where oracles were given or where the worship was connected with mysteries . To this shrine only priests ...
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... kind of nearly pure native carbonate of lime , found in the clefts of calcareous rocks , in limestone caverns , and at the bottom of certain lakes , the waters of which are charged with lime . A Agastrics , Agastria , Agastrica ( Gr . à ...
... kind of nearly pure native carbonate of lime , found in the clefts of calcareous rocks , in limestone caverns , and at the bottom of certain lakes , the waters of which are charged with lime . A Agastrics , Agastria , Agastrica ( Gr . à ...
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... kind of crops that may be raised on it . climates , agriculture is calculated to attain the highest degree of perfection ; and comparing the different parts of the zones with this descrip- tion of climate in both hemispheres , we may ...
... kind of crops that may be raised on it . climates , agriculture is calculated to attain the highest degree of perfection ; and comparing the different parts of the zones with this descrip- tion of climate in both hemispheres , we may ...
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Side 132 - Book of Esdras, The Book of Tobias, The Book of Judith, The rest of the Book of Esther, The Book of Wisdom, Jesus the Son of Sirach, Baruch the Prophet, The Song of the Three Children, The Story of Susanna, Of Bel and the Dragon, The Prayer of Manasses, The First Book of Maccabees, The Second Book of Maccabees, All the Books of the New Testament, as they are commonly received, we do receive, and account them Canonical.
Side 429 - I presently found that, by means of this lens, air was expelled from it very readily. Having got about three or four times as much as the bulk of my materials, I admitted water to it, and found that it was not imbibed by it. But what surprised me more than I can well express was that a candle burned in this air with a remarkably vigorous flame...
Side 456 - The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments duly administered, according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Side 261 - I have gone too far in saying that a cultivated taste for the polite arts extinguishes the passions, and renders us indifferent to those objects which are so fondly pursued by the rest of mankind. On further reflection, I find that it rather improves our sensibility for all the tender and agreeable passions ; at the same time that it renders the mind incapable of the rougher and more boisterous emotions.
Side 8 - ... the three angles of a triangle are together equal to two right angles, although it is not known to all.
Side 337 - a naturalist to announce to the world the discovery of an animal which for the first five years of its life existed in the form of a serpent ; which then penetrating into the earth, and weaving a shroud of pure silk of the finest texture, contracted itself within this covering into a body without external mouth or limbs, and resembling more than...
Side 219 - French bailler, to deliver, is a delivery of goods in trust, upon a contract expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee.
Side 174 - An army is generally divided into a certain number of corps, each consisting of brigades, regiment .«, battalions, and squadrons; when in the field, it is formed into lines; the first line is called the vanguard, the second the main body, the third the rearguard, or body of reserve. The middle of each line is occupied by the foot ; the cavalry forms the right and left wing of each line, and sometimes squadrons of horse are placed in the intervals between the battalions.
Side 363 - ... the weight of tallow in candles 6 to the pound. But its light being equal to that of 5 of the latter candles, it appears from the above table that 2...
Side 452 - ... the herald of its decay. The gay colouring with which the Almighty has decked the pale marble of nature is not the result of any quality inherent in the coloured body, or in the particles by which it may be tinged, but is merely a property of the light in which they happen to be placed. Newton Was the first person who placed this great truth in the clearest evidence. He found that all bodies, whatever were their peculiar colours, exhibited these colours only in white light. When they were illuminated...