Encyclopædia Britannica: or, A dictionary of arts and sciences, compiled by a society of gentlemen in Scotland [ed. by W. Smellie]. Suppl. to the 3rd. ed., by G. Gleig, Volumen12 |
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Página 12
... caufe . When in the light of the fun , he examined , with a microscope , a small piece of a fifh which had thined very much the night before , he found nothing remarkable on its furface , except that he thought he perceived what he ...
... caufe . When in the light of the fun , he examined , with a microscope , a small piece of a fifh which had thined very much the night before , he found nothing remarkable on its furface , except that he thought he perceived what he ...
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... caufe , the effect is fingular and highly curious . LIGHTS , in Painting , are those parts of a piece which are illuminated , or that lie open to the luminary by which the piece is fuppofed to be enlightened ; and which , for this ...
... caufe , the effect is fingular and highly curious . LIGHTS , in Painting , are those parts of a piece which are illuminated , or that lie open to the luminary by which the piece is fuppofed to be enlightened ; and which , for this ...
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... caufe ? Lilly , who made his fortune by favourable predictions to both parties , affured the general that God would be with him and his army . In 1648 , he published his Treatife of the Three Suns feen the preceding winter ; and also an ...
... caufe ? Lilly , who made his fortune by favourable predictions to both parties , affured the general that God would be with him and his army . In 1648 , he published his Treatife of the Three Suns feen the preceding winter ; and also an ...
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... caufe of fevers , especially to Europeans , Limburgh , from their being lefs habituated to the climate , and more apt than the natives to fuffer themselves to be fur- prifed by the cool air when in a state of perfpiration . This wind ...
... caufe of fevers , especially to Europeans , Limburgh , from their being lefs habituated to the climate , and more apt than the natives to fuffer themselves to be fur- prifed by the cool air when in a state of perfpiration . This wind ...
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... caufe of his death , was an ulceration of the urinary bladder ; of which , after a tedious indifpofition , he died , January 11. 1778 , in the 71st year of his age , -His principal other works , befide thofe already men- tioned , are ...
... caufe of his death , was an ulceration of the urinary bladder ; of which , after a tedious indifpofition , he died , January 11. 1778 , in the 71st year of his age , -His principal other works , befide thofe already men- tioned , are ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 233 - A body of nobility is also more peculiarly necessary in our mixed and compounded constitution, in order to support the rights of both the crown and the people, by forming a barrier to withstand the encroachments of both.
Página 269 - I am lawfully called," said he, " to appear in that city, and thither will I go in the name of the Lord, though as many devils as there are tiles on the houses were there combined against me.
Página 290 - Her speech was the melodious voice of Love, Her song the warbling of the vernal grove ; Her eloquence was sweeter than her song, Soft as her heart, and as her...
Página 233 - ... to be precarious. The nobility, therefore, are the pillars, which are reared from among the people, more immediately to support the throne; and, if that falls, they must also be buried under its ruins.
Página 152 - ... as there are a great many other ways by which heat might have been communicated to it. And if we cannot argue from the removal of the antecedent to the removal of the consequent, no more can we from the admission of the consequent to the admis.
Página 72 - The logarithm of the root of a number is found by dividing the logarithm of the number by the index of the root.
Página 327 - These being of different standing and proficiency, he was obliged to divide them into four or five classes, in each of which he employed a full hour every day, from the first of Nov. to the first of June. In the first class he taught the first six books of " Euclid's Elements," plain trigonometry, practical geometry, the elements of fortification, and an introduction to algebra.
Página 14 - ... it, for fome minutes, globules of light as large as the heads of pins. When he prefled thefe globules, they appeared to his touch like a foft and thin pulp ; and fome days after the fea was covered near the coafts with whole banks of thefe little iifh.
Página 191 - The Golden Orb or Globe, put into the king's right hand before he is crowned, and borne in his left, with the sceptre in his right, upon his return into Westminster-hall after he is crowned.
Página 410 - I could walk with, till this soul, like a ray of light, entered into me, and my tongue began to speak, my eye to see, and my foot to walk ; therefore punish it eternally, but deliver me.