British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 12Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1821 - Natural history |
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... round the chest , and tying it to some immoveable point . The extension should be gradual , and kept up unremittingly , which can be best effected by means of pullies . The elbow should be bent , and the extending power applied just ...
... round the chest , and tying it to some immoveable point . The extension should be gradual , and kept up unremittingly , which can be best effected by means of pullies . The elbow should be bent , and the extending power applied just ...
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... round surface of the half orange will offer more surface than the flat section which lays upon the table : but , if it were required to build on the semi - spherical surface , it would be found that no more houses , & c . could be ...
... round surface of the half orange will offer more surface than the flat section which lays upon the table : but , if it were required to build on the semi - spherical surface , it would be found that no more houses , & c . could be ...
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... round , and defy their enemies to the attack , which , however , is gene- rally declined , they at length refuse to proceed , and halt for the grand and final conflict ; in which , though eventually overpowered by the number of dogs ...
... round , and defy their enemies to the attack , which , however , is gene- rally declined , they at length refuse to proceed , and halt for the grand and final conflict ; in which , though eventually overpowered by the number of dogs ...
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... round the branch of a tree . It can swim with rapidity , and is valued for food . S. sajassu , or the Mexican hog , or pe- cari , is the only animal of the genus na- tive of America , where it is gregarious , fierce , and dangerous ...
... round the branch of a tree . It can swim with rapidity , and is valued for food . S. sajassu , or the Mexican hog , or pe- cari , is the only animal of the genus na- tive of America , where it is gregarious , fierce , and dangerous ...
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... round the earth , is more convex than in the quadratures , for which reason the moon is less distant from the earth at the former than the latter . When the moon is in the syzygies , her absides go backwards , or are retrograde . When ...
... round the earth , is more convex than in the quadratures , for which reason the moon is less distant from the earth at the former than the latter . When the moon is in the syzygies , her absides go backwards , or are retrograde . When ...
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