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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... pleasure ; then one of the faces which make right angles with each other is to be turned towards the object or objects to be delineated , and the rays , after pass- ing through that surface and reflection from the two next faces , will ...
... pleasure ; then one of the faces which make right angles with each other is to be turned towards the object or objects to be delineated , and the rays , after pass- ing through that surface and reflection from the two next faces , will ...
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... pleasure , to bring it to the pro- per note it is to perform when placed in the instrument : this is done by sliding the plug , D , up or down in the pipe . A metal pipe , a section of which is shown in fig . 6 , is nearly the same in ...
... pleasure , to bring it to the pro- per note it is to perform when placed in the instrument : this is done by sliding the plug , D , up or down in the pipe . A metal pipe , a section of which is shown in fig . 6 , is nearly the same in ...
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... pleasure . Each subject , however different its character , is com- posed in a manner so similar to the other , that the spectator may view a gallery of such pictures , seldom discovering the subjects they are intended to represent ...
... pleasure . Each subject , however different its character , is com- posed in a manner so similar to the other , that the spectator may view a gallery of such pictures , seldom discovering the subjects they are intended to represent ...
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... pleasure to the sight . As in a composition one group , or one figure , should strike the eye with supe- riority over the secondary groups , or other objects in the picture ; so there should be in a picture one principal mass of light ...
... pleasure to the sight . As in a composition one group , or one figure , should strike the eye with supe- riority over the secondary groups , or other objects in the picture ; so there should be in a picture one principal mass of light ...
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... pleasure an inha- bitant of the air . PAPILIONACEI , in botany , a term applied to certain flowers , from their supposed resemblance to the figure of a butterfly . The term is applied also to the thirty - second order of Linnĉus's ...
... pleasure an inha- bitant of the air . PAPILIONACEI , in botany , a term applied to certain flowers , from their supposed resemblance to the figure of a butterfly . The term is applied also to the thirty - second order of Linnĉus's ...
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