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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... fix his imagination , to form his judgment , and to acquire a habit of right reasoning ; and in this science he grounded himself upon the principles of Des Cartes , with whose philosophy he was greatly delighted . In the next place , he ...
... fix his imagination , to form his judgment , and to acquire a habit of right reasoning ; and in this science he grounded himself upon the principles of Des Cartes , with whose philosophy he was greatly delighted . In the next place , he ...
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... fixed in some Easter or Michael- mas term , by a jury returned from the county where the cause of action arises ; but with this proviso , nisi prius justiciarii ad assisas capiendas venerint : that is , un- less , before the day ...
... fixed in some Easter or Michael- mas term , by a jury returned from the county where the cause of action arises ; but with this proviso , nisi prius justiciarii ad assisas capiendas venerint : that is , un- less , before the day ...
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... fix with fat lute a glass tube , terminating in another large receiver , in which is a small quantity of water ; and if you wish to collect the gaseous products , let a bent glass tube from this receiver communicate with a pneumatic ...
... fix with fat lute a glass tube , terminating in another large receiver , in which is a small quantity of water ; and if you wish to collect the gaseous products , let a bent glass tube from this receiver communicate with a pneumatic ...
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... fixed upon the same lines of an object seen through the tele- scope . OBJECTIVE line , in perspective , is any line drawn on the geometrical plane , whose representation is sought for in a draught or picture : and the objective plane is ...
... fixed upon the same lines of an object seen through the tele- scope . OBJECTIVE line , in perspective , is any line drawn on the geometrical plane , whose representation is sought for in a draught or picture : and the objective plane is ...
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... fixed in the plane of the meridian , he began to verify his catalogue of the fixed stars , which had hitherto depended altogether on the distances measured with the sex- tant , after a new and very different man- ner , viz . by taking ...
... fixed in the plane of the meridian , he began to verify his catalogue of the fixed stars , which had hitherto depended altogether on the distances measured with the sex- tant , after a new and very different man- ner , viz . by taking ...
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