American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ; Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 5Mitchell, Ames and White, 1819 - Natural history |
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... measure , explain the sense of the device , and at the same time instruct us in some moral truth , or other matter of know . ledge . The emblem is somewhat plain- er than the enigma , and the invention is more modern , it being entirely ...
... measure , explain the sense of the device , and at the same time instruct us in some moral truth , or other matter of know . ledge . The emblem is somewhat plain- er than the enigma , and the invention is more modern , it being entirely ...
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... measure time , as clocks , watches , & c .; and others for the illustra- tion of some branch of science , as the or- rery , cometarium , and the like In general , we may observe , concerning engines , that they consist of one , two , or ...
... measure time , as clocks , watches , & c .; and others for the illustra- tion of some branch of science , as the or- rery , cometarium , and the like In general , we may observe , concerning engines , that they consist of one , two , or ...
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... measure , upon Heath , Sharp , Bromley , and a few others , as in this par- ticular instance we do not include those eminent foreigners , who have or do at present reside in England . Whatever de- ficiencies we may discover in the prose ...
... measure , upon Heath , Sharp , Bromley , and a few others , as in this par- ticular instance we do not include those eminent foreigners , who have or do at present reside in England . Whatever de- ficiencies we may discover in the prose ...
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... measure intro- duced by Bartolozzi , whose works in this way are astonishingly numerous , exclusive of those to which his name is affixed , and not the products of himself . Some pasto- ral scenes , with figures , when printed in ...
... measure intro- duced by Bartolozzi , whose works in this way are astonishingly numerous , exclusive of those to which his name is affixed , and not the products of himself . Some pasto- ral scenes , with figures , when printed in ...
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... measure for things dry , containing 1.0961 of a bushel . See MEASURE . EPHEDRA , in botany , a genus of the Dioecia Monodelphia class and order . Natural order of Coniferæ . Essential character : : male , calyx of the ament two- cleft ...
... measure for things dry , containing 1.0961 of a bushel . See MEASURE . EPHEDRA , in botany , a genus of the Dioecia Monodelphia class and order . Natural order of Coniferæ . Essential character : : male , calyx of the ament two- cleft ...
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