Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Volum 2,Del 1Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Side 2
... divided into 74 parishes , of which moft of the churches are fituated near the fhores . By an account given on the 13th of August 1563 , there were 2010 houfholds , or families , in Angle- Anglefey . fey ; allowing five to a family ...
... divided into 74 parishes , of which moft of the churches are fituated near the fhores . By an account given on the 13th of August 1563 , there were 2010 houfholds , or families , in Angle- Anglefey . fey ; allowing five to a family ...
Side 33
... divided state ; at ( b ) and ( c ) its na- tural ftate : this is common to moft vegetable infufions , as is the following . Fig . 5. is the volvox volutans , or the roller . At ( a ) the animal is feparated , and becomes two diftinct be ...
... divided state ; at ( b ) and ( c ) its na- tural ftate : this is common to moft vegetable infufions , as is the following . Fig . 5. is the volvox volutans , or the roller . At ( a ) the animal is feparated , and becomes two diftinct be ...
Side 38
... divided . ANNA , one of the chief cities of the above principa lity , and formerly a famed mart - town , is fituated in Lat . 33. 57. and E. Long . 42. 10. on the river Eu- phrates , in a fruitful and pleasant foil . It has two streets ...
... divided . ANNA , one of the chief cities of the above principa lity , and formerly a famed mart - town , is fituated in Lat . 33. 57. and E. Long . 42. 10. on the river Eu- phrates , in a fruitful and pleasant foil . It has two streets ...
Side 39
... divided and brought into culture , and the country has affumed a new appearance ; which may be ascribed not only to the divifion of the commons , but likewife to the improvement made in the roads , and particular ly in the great weftern ...
... divided and brought into culture , and the country has affumed a new appearance ; which may be ascribed not only to the divifion of the commons , but likewife to the improvement made in the roads , and particular ly in the great weftern ...
Side 42
... divided ; fome holding that the universe shall not be annihilated , but only its exter- nal face changed ; others afferting , that the substance of it fhall be destroyed . How widely have the fentiments of mankind differ- ed as to the ...
... divided ; fome holding that the universe shall not be annihilated , but only its exter- nal face changed ; others afferting , that the substance of it fhall be destroyed . How widely have the fentiments of mankind differ- ed as to the ...
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Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volum 2,Del 1 Colin Macfarquhar,George Gleig Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1801 |
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Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.