British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 9Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1821 - Natural history |
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... feeling , a sense which , besides men , few mammalia enjoy : that is , few animals possess the faculty of dis- tinguishing the form of external objects , and their qualities , by organs destined for that purpose , a property very differ ...
... feeling , a sense which , besides men , few mammalia enjoy : that is , few animals possess the faculty of dis- tinguishing the form of external objects , and their qualities , by organs destined for that purpose , a property very differ ...
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... feeling of the piece , and , in short , to judge rightly between a bad picture and a good one . Nay , a moment is sufficient for one of these self - dubbed critics to pass an irrevocable sentence on the most extensive and studied ...
... feeling of the piece , and , in short , to judge rightly between a bad picture and a good one . Nay , a moment is sufficient for one of these self - dubbed critics to pass an irrevocable sentence on the most extensive and studied ...
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... feelings by means of lines , lights with its just proportions , has completed and shades , and colours , it cannot truly his work , which is rather the simple tran- script than the imitation of the image be this as it may , a thorough ...
... feelings by means of lines , lights with its just proportions , has completed and shades , and colours , it cannot truly his work , which is rather the simple tran- script than the imitation of the image be this as it may , a thorough ...
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... feeling . PALY , or PALE , in heraldry , is when the shield is divided into four or more equal parts , by perpendicular lines falling from the top to the bottom . Palybendy is when the escutcheon is divided by per- pendicular lines ...
... feeling . PALY , or PALE , in heraldry , is when the shield is divided into four or more equal parts , by perpendicular lines falling from the top to the bottom . Palybendy is when the escutcheon is divided by per- pendicular lines ...
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... feelings are divided into a variety of branches , and those we shall endeavour , in the succeeding pages , to explain , as far as our limited powers will permit . The passions are , in a great degree , selfish ; and yet , fortunately ...
... feelings are divided into a variety of branches , and those we shall endeavour , in the succeeding pages , to explain , as far as our limited powers will permit . The passions are , in a great degree , selfish ; and yet , fortunately ...
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