The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 4Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1818 - Natural history |
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... particular kind of substance requires a different degree of temperature for its congelation , which affords an obvious reason why particular substances remain always fluid , while others remain always solid , in the common temperature ...
... particular kind of substance requires a different degree of temperature for its congelation , which affords an obvious reason why particular substances remain always fluid , while others remain always solid , in the common temperature ...
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... particular foods to particular organs of digestion , or to particular states of the same organs ; so that the greatest pos- sible portion of nutriment may be ex- tracted from a given quantity of nutritive matter ; or a sufficient ...
... particular foods to particular organs of digestion , or to particular states of the same organs ; so that the greatest pos- sible portion of nutriment may be ex- tracted from a given quantity of nutritive matter ; or a sufficient ...
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... particular influence on the muscular system ; certain determinate attitudes fol- low each sensation of the soul , and it is the muscles which express their energy ; in sleeping or quiescent bodies , they are not obtruded on the view ...
... particular influence on the muscular system ; certain determinate attitudes fol- low each sensation of the soul , and it is the muscles which express their energy ; in sleeping or quiescent bodies , they are not obtruded on the view ...
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