Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Band 6,Teil 1Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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... SYSTEMS , The HISTORY , THEORY , and PRACTICE , of each , according to the Latest Discoveries and Improvements ; AND FULL EXPLANATIONS GIVEN OF THE VARIOUS DETACHED PARTS OF KNOWLEDGE , WHETHER RELATING TO NATURAL and ARTIFICIAL Objects ...
... SYSTEMS , The HISTORY , THEORY , and PRACTICE , of each , according to the Latest Discoveries and Improvements ; AND FULL EXPLANATIONS GIVEN OF THE VARIOUS DETACHED PARTS OF KNOWLEDGE , WHETHER RELATING TO NATURAL and ARTIFICIAL Objects ...
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... system . ” Drowning , to infpire , a quantity of water commonly paffes into the mouth . The fkin about the face and lips then becomes blue , the pulfe ceafes , the sphincters are re- laxed , and the animal falls down without sense or mo ...
... system . ” Drowning , to infpire , a quantity of water commonly paffes into the mouth . The fkin about the face and lips then becomes blue , the pulfe ceafes , the sphincters are re- laxed , and the animal falls down without sense or mo ...
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... system . " For exciting the action of the inteftines , the moft proper mean is , the application of their ordinary itimu- lus of dilatation ; and this is most effectually applied , by forcing a quantity of the air into them by the fun ...
... system . " For exciting the action of the inteftines , the moft proper mean is , the application of their ordinary itimu- lus of dilatation ; and this is most effectually applied , by forcing a quantity of the air into them by the fun ...
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... systems philofophy , of religion and philofophy , or received them from whence de- others . Some have imagined , that the colony of Pho- cians which left Greece and built Marseilles in Gaul about the 57th Olympiad , imported the firft ...
... systems philofophy , of religion and philofophy , or received them from whence de- others . Some have imagined , that the colony of Pho- cians which left Greece and built Marseilles in Gaul about the 57th Olympiad , imported the firft ...
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... Systems of ever , was the atomic one , fuppofed to have been in- Democr vented by Democritus ; though Laertius attributes it and Epist to Leucippus , and fome make it much older . Ac- cording to this fyftem , the first principles of all ...
... Systems of ever , was the atomic one , fuppofed to have been in- Democr vented by Democritus ; though Laertius attributes it and Epist to Leucippus , and fome make it much older . Ac- cording to this fyftem , the first principles of all ...
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Seite 296 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden ; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
Seite 154 - Bishop would admit of any plea ; especially the latter, who had the Abbey lighted, the ground opened, the choir...
Seite 264 - College, in that city, when our ears were stunned with a horrid sound, resembling that of an infinite number of chariots, driven fiercely forward ; the wheels rattling, and the thongs cracking. Soon after this, a most dreadful earthquake ensued; so that the...
Seite 72 - ... will answer at the dreadful day of judgment when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed, that if either of you know any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in Matrimony, ye do now confess it. For be ye well assured, that so many as are coupled together otherwise than God's Word doth allow are not joined together by God; neither is their Matrimony lawful.
Seite 46 - There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion ; it is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them.
Seite 66 - Being asked how he was able so readily to find the cup that had been thrown in, he replied, that it happened to be flung by the waves into the cavity of a rock, against which he himself was urged in his descent.
Seite 154 - John, and suffer her to take Charles ; but Mr. Dryden was too absolute, and they parted in anger : he took Charles with him, and she was obliged to be content with John. When the fatal day came, the anxiety of the lady's...
Seite 68 - ... their descent ; and to let it out again when they were drawn up full from below. And to a hole in the uppermost part of these barrels, I fixed a leathern trunk or hose well liquored with bees...
Seite 65 - ... but, upon its approach, it was known to be Nicholas, whom they took into their ship. When they asked him whither he was going in so stormy and rough a sea, and at such a distance from land, he...
Seite 248 - ... in the body of this earth, is to consolidate the sediment collected at the bottom of the sea, and to form thereof a mass of permanent land above the level of the ocean, for the purpose of maintaining plants and animals. The power appointed for this purpose is, as on all other...