Arts and Sciences: Or, Fourth Division of "The English Encyclopedia", Volume 7Charles Knight Bradbury, Evans & Company, 1868 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... employed for actual support , as in open loggie , it is only in combination with arches springing from them , the columns per- forming the office of piers to the arches . A great deal of Italian Renaissance is , however , astylar , with ...
... employed for actual support , as in open loggie , it is only in combination with arches springing from them , the columns per- forming the office of piers to the arches . A great deal of Italian Renaissance is , however , astylar , with ...
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... employed more productively on those lands which are already in cultivation . In such case , capital will be preferably employed on the old land , and will equally create a rent ; for rent is always the difference between the produce ...
... employed more productively on those lands which are already in cultivation . In such case , capital will be preferably employed on the old land , and will equally create a rent ; for rent is always the difference between the produce ...
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... employ the repeating circle . This is one of the most complicated as well as ingenious of existing instruments , and obtained an immense reputation , from being the only instrument employed in the geodesical and astronomical ...
... employ the repeating circle . This is one of the most complicated as well as ingenious of existing instruments , and obtained an immense reputation , from being the only instrument employed in the geodesical and astronomical ...
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... employed . In preparing hydrofluoric acid , lead is used ; and in concentrating sulphuric acid , platinum retorts are now largely employed , and would be universally so , were it not for their very high price . In the destructive ...
... employed . In preparing hydrofluoric acid , lead is used ; and in concentrating sulphuric acid , platinum retorts are now largely employed , and would be universally so , were it not for their very high price . In the destructive ...
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... employed for powdering . " Holes are remarked in many of the pieces , of which one occasionally extends entirely through , the others only partially ; the former having been made in order to suspend the piece in drying , the others in ...
... employed for powdering . " Holes are remarked in many of the pieces , of which one occasionally extends entirely through , the others only partially ; the former having been made in order to suspend the piece in drying , the others in ...
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Page 247 - That no contract for the sale of any goods, wares, and merchandise, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards, shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same...
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Page 227 - And thou shalt remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God brought thee out thence by a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm : therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
Page 199 - London, for the purpose of cultivating and improving the Arts of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture'.
Page 337 - An Act to redress the Misemployment of Lands, Goods, and Stocks of Money heretofore given to Charitable Uses.
Page 227 - And shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, Nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord ; And I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, And feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
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