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 21
... fupport ; the one fcrewing to the right , the other to the left . If a honeyfuckle twig meets with a dead branch , it screws from the right to the left . The clafpers of briony shoot into a fpiral , and lay hold of whatever comes in ...
... fupport ; the one fcrewing to the right , the other to the left . If a honeyfuckle twig meets with a dead branch , it screws from the right to the left . The clafpers of briony shoot into a fpiral , and lay hold of whatever comes in ...
Side 35
... fupport little oblong oval feed - veffels , with a hole on the top of each . From thefe I could plainly fee minute globu lar feeds iffue forth in great abundance with an elastic force , and turn about in the water as if they were ani ...
... fupport little oblong oval feed - veffels , with a hole on the top of each . From thefe I could plainly fee minute globu lar feeds iffue forth in great abundance with an elastic force , and turn about in the water as if they were ani ...
Side 37
... fupport the most whimsical and chimerical fyftems . ANIMALCULES Invifible . - Naturalifts fuppofe another fpecies or order of invifible animalcules , viz . fuch as e- fcape the cognizance even of the best microscopes , and give many ...
... fupport the most whimsical and chimerical fyftems . ANIMALCULES Invifible . - Naturalifts fuppofe another fpecies or order of invifible animalcules , viz . fuch as e- fcape the cognizance even of the best microscopes , and give many ...
Side 63
... fupport of his life . Acordingly Mofes informs us , that for this purpose a grant was made him to eat of every tree of the garden , excepting one . At the fame time it was made known to him , in what manner he was to repair the ...
... fupport of his life . Acordingly Mofes informs us , that for this purpose a grant was made him to eat of every tree of the garden , excepting one . At the fame time it was made known to him , in what manner he was to repair the ...
Side 84
... fupport , he had re- courfe to the antidofis ; that is , he was to feek fome other citizen of better substance than himself , who was free from this , and other offices ; in which cafe the for- mer was excused . In case the perfon thus ...
... fupport , he had re- courfe to the antidofis ; that is , he was to feek fome other citizen of better substance than himself , who was free from this , and other offices ; in which cafe the for- mer was excused . In case the perfon thus ...
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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.