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DENCE , in optics , the angle which a ray of AN'IMA , among divines and naturalists , light makes with a perpendicular to that denotes the soul , or principle of life in point of the surface of any medium on animals .
DENCE , in optics , the angle which a ray of AN'IMA , among divines and naturalists , light makes with a perpendicular to that denotes the soul , or principle of life in point of the surface of any medium on animals .
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Flying artillery , a sort of arspring , which will flow up to the surface of tillery , so called from the celerity with the earth . If this has its source in a neigh- which it can be moved . Seats are contrived bouring hill , the water ...
Flying artillery , a sort of arspring , which will flow up to the surface of tillery , so called from the celerity with the earth . If this has its source in a neigh- which it can be moved . Seats are contrived bouring hill , the water ...
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It is also the name pressure of the atmosphere on the whole of a chain of high mountains in Africa , ex- surface of the earth is said to be equivalent tending from the coast of the Atlantic to to that of a globe of lead of sixty - miles ...
It is also the name pressure of the atmosphere on the whole of a chain of high mountains in Africa , ex- surface of the earth is said to be equivalent tending from the coast of the Atlantic to to that of a globe of lead of sixty - miles ...
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It also contains , in the form present a condensing surface of enormous of vapour , a multitude of adventitious sub . extent to the increasing elasticity of the stances , in those injurious mixtures known aqueous atmosphere . under the ...
It also contains , in the form present a condensing surface of enormous of vapour , a multitude of adventitious sub . extent to the increasing elasticity of the stances , in those injurious mixtures known aqueous atmosphere . under the ...
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... found in the West Indian sexs . lowing rules are of use : 1 , If the surface of it is about ten feet long , and very vorathe mercury is convex , it is a sign that the cious . mercury is then rising ; 2 , If the surface is BARʻRATOR ...
... found in the West Indian sexs . lowing rules are of use : 1 , If the surface of it is about ten feet long , and very vorathe mercury is convex , it is a sign that the cious . mercury is then rising ; 2 , If the surface is BARʻRATOR ...
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Page 163 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by law ; and will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? ' King or queen :
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Page 248 - Equity, then, in its true and genuine meaning, is the soul and spirit of all law: positive law is construed, and rational law is made, by it. In this, equity is synonymous to justice ; in that, to the true sense and sound interpretation of the rule.
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| Title | The Scientific and Literary Treasury: A New and Popular Encyclopedia of the Belles Lettres |
| Author | Samuel Maunder |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 11 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 832 pages |
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