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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... sensation or by imagination . OBJECT glass of a telescope , or microscope , the glass placed at the end of the tube which is next the object . To prove the goodness and regularity of an object - glass , on a paper describe two ...
... sensation or by imagination . OBJECT glass of a telescope , or microscope , the glass placed at the end of the tube which is next the object . To prove the goodness and regularity of an object - glass , on a paper describe two ...
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... sensation of 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 ...
... sensation of 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 ...
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... sensations of the soul excited by pleasure and pain ; which two principal 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 ...
... sensations of the soul excited by pleasure and pain ; which two principal 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 ...
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... sensations . Fear is wholly engaged in the contemplation of misery , which contains not a single particle in its nature calculated to soothe and mitigate its agonizing influence . But still it is the vigilant guardian of well- being ...
... sensations . Fear is wholly engaged in the contemplation of misery , which contains not a single particle in its nature calculated to soothe and mitigate its agonizing influence . But still it is the vigilant guardian of well- being ...
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... sensation . Resentment is a far more generous inmate , because it pos- sesses the power of discriminating an un- intentional from a voluntary insult , and is vented generally , and immediately , in words alone . It must be obvious ...
... sensation . Resentment is a far more generous inmate , because it pos- sesses the power of discriminating an un- intentional from a voluntary insult , and is vented generally , and immediately , in words alone . It must be obvious ...
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