Pocket Encyclopedia: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Polite Literature, Volumen2Edward Augustus Kendall Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, 1811 - 415 páginas |
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Página 4
... ..... Snow Chryst . muriate of lime 2 Snow Chryst . muriate of lime Snow Diluted sulphuric acid 10 ) COLD ; effects of Different animals will endure different degrees 4 COLD . Combinations of FRIGORIFIC MIXTURES. ...
... ..... Snow Chryst . muriate of lime 2 Snow Chryst . muriate of lime Snow Diluted sulphuric acid 10 ) COLD ; effects of Different animals will endure different degrees 4 COLD . Combinations of FRIGORIFIC MIXTURES. ...
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... animals will endure different degrees of cold without injury . Some perish suddenly upon the approach of intense cold , such as insects of almost all kinds : others are only thrown into a state of lethargic insensibility , from which ...
... animals will endure different degrees of cold without injury . Some perish suddenly upon the approach of intense cold , such as insects of almost all kinds : others are only thrown into a state of lethargic insensibility , from which ...
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... animal springs suddenly to a considerable dis- tance , and bites , without the least provocation , those who approach it . The inhabitants are said to have a preparation of herbs with which they arm themselves against the bite . The ...
... animal springs suddenly to a considerable dis- tance , and bites , without the least provocation , those who approach it . The inhabitants are said to have a preparation of herbs with which they arm themselves against the bite . The ...
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... animal : it multiplies his ideas , and his wants ; ' brings riches to nations , and poverty to individuals , making the rich poor , and the poor , " poor indeed . " In nations under these circum- stances , it has been justly observed ...
... animal : it multiplies his ideas , and his wants ; ' brings riches to nations , and poverty to individuals , making the rich poor , and the poor , " poor indeed . " In nations under these circum- stances , it has been justly observed ...
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... animals as detects imposition in those authors that . have delineated and described parts of brutes as belonging to the human body . 2. It interprets several passages in ancient writers in medicine who have reasoned from those ...
... animals as detects imposition in those authors that . have delineated and described parts of brutes as belonging to the human body . 2. It interprets several passages in ancient writers in medicine who have reasoned from those ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 123 - We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us, while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God.
Página 344 - Or, as the whole stock, is to the whole gain or loss, So is each man's particular stock, To his particular share of the gain or loss.
Página 51 - The ram, the bull, the heavenly twins, And next the crab the lion shines, The virgin and the scales, The scorpion, archer, and sea-goat, The man that holds the watering-pot, And fish with glittering tails.
Página 428 - ... 3. In most places he had a power of devising lands by will, before the statute for that purpose was made. 4. The lands descend not to the eldest, youngest, or any one son only, but to all the sons together...
Página 124 - That lies in old wood like a hare in her form ; With teeth or with claws it will bite or will scratch, And chambermaids christen this worm a deathwatch...
Página 37 - When those companies do not trade upon a joint stock, but are obliged to admit any person, properly qualified, upon paying a certain fine, and agreeing to submit to the regulations of the company, each member trading upon his own stock, and at his own risk, they are called regulated companies.
Página 51 - The names of the signs of the zodiac are: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, and Pisces.
Página 72 - ... care. But how was this to be effected ? The freehold was vested in the parson; and, if we suppose it vested in his natural capacity, on his death it might descend to his heir, and would be liable to his debts and...
Página 221 - Britain, to deliver and set forth the judgment of the sessions, in the face of the sun, and in the eye of the light, on all, with respect to genius and moral conduct, who may seek for presid^ncy and privilege.
Página 333 - When two adjacent circles meet, and interfere with each other's progress, they not only do not cross each other, but both circles are invariably obliterated between the points of contact : for the exhaustion occasioned by each obstructs the progress of the other, and both are starved.