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 6
... reafon of the in- flexible quality of its fibres not applicable to the fame ufe . ANGLING , among fportfimen , the art of fishing with a rod , to which are fitted a line , hook , and bait . Angling , See FISHING - Rod , FISHING - Hook ...
... reafon of the in- flexible quality of its fibres not applicable to the fame ufe . ANGLING , among fportfimen , the art of fishing with a rod , to which are fitted a line , hook , and bait . Angling , See FISHING - Rod , FISHING - Hook ...
Side 22
... reafon , as the true characteristic of animal - life . This principle is undoubtedly a confequence of fenfation ; and as it is never obferved to take place in vegetables , we have a right to fay that the foundation of it , namely ...
... reafon , as the true characteristic of animal - life . This principle is undoubtedly a confequence of fenfation ; and as it is never obferved to take place in vegetables , we have a right to fay that the foundation of it , namely ...
Side 23
... reafon may also be adduced why we do not believe vegetables to be endowed with fen- fation . - Had they been fo , we must suppose them to fuffer pain when they are cut or deftroyed ; and , if fo , what an unhappy state must they be in ...
... reafon may also be adduced why we do not believe vegetables to be endowed with fen- fation . - Had they been fo , we must suppose them to fuffer pain when they are cut or deftroyed ; and , if fo , what an unhappy state must they be in ...
Side 36
... reafon in the world to conclude that The eels in paste have no other origin than the union it can produce effects utterly beyond our comprehen- of the organic particles of the most effential part of the fion , it is impoffible for us to ...
... reafon in the world to conclude that The eels in paste have no other origin than the union it can produce effects utterly beyond our comprehen- of the organic particles of the most effential part of the fion , it is impoffible for us to ...
Side 37
... reafon of the cure being effected by cutaneous applications . On this foundation fome have attributed the fmall - pox and meafles , and'infectious difeafes ; others the epilep- fy , & c . to animalcules . Langius goes farther ,, and ...
... reafon of the cure being effected by cutaneous applications . On this foundation fome have attributed the fmall - pox and meafles , and'infectious difeafes ; others the epilep- fy , & c . to animalcules . Langius goes farther ,, and ...
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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.