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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... tain in place , as the muscles of the calf are so apt to move the foot . SURIANA , in botany , so named in ho- nour of Joseph Donat Surian , a genus of the Decandria Pentagynia class and order . Natural order of Succulenta . Rosacea ...
... tain in place , as the muscles of the calf are so apt to move the foot . SURIANA , in botany , so named in ho- nour of Joseph Donat Surian , a genus of the Decandria Pentagynia class and order . Natural order of Succulenta . Rosacea ...
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... tain 8,400 square yards . It will be seen that this proportion is , in a great mea- sure , the foundation of all horizontal com- putation ; and the student should remark , that all figures , having many sides , may be divided into ...
... tain 8,400 square yards . It will be seen that this proportion is , in a great mea- sure , the foundation of all horizontal com- putation ; and the student should remark , that all figures , having many sides , may be divided into ...
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... tain confidence , both in his comrades and in himself . Habituated to certain regu- lated paces , independent of musical bias , each soldier preserves his situation with correctness , and feels himself , in all situ- ations , fully ...
... tain confidence , both in his comrades and in himself . Habituated to certain regu- lated paces , independent of musical bias , each soldier preserves his situation with correctness , and feels himself , in all situ- ations , fully ...
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... tain the whole relatively , as it were , in his hand and management , at every in- stant , so as to be capable of restraining the bad effects of such ideas of indepen- dent and individual exertion as are vision- ary and hurtful , and of ...
... tain the whole relatively , as it were , in his hand and management , at every in- stant , so as to be capable of restraining the bad effects of such ideas of indepen- dent and individual exertion as are vision- ary and hurtful , and of ...
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... tain the full lustre and glow of plumage till their third year ; and in sickness and confinement lose almost all their brillian- cy . T. ibis , or the Egyptian ibis , is more than three feet long , and as large as a stork . On the ...
... tain the full lustre and glow of plumage till their third year ; and in sickness and confinement lose almost all their brillian- cy . T. ibis , or the Egyptian ibis , is more than three feet long , and as large as a stork . On the ...
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