The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - Natural history |
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... sufficient for the conduct of life . However , his secret design seems to have been to establish the doctrine of Plato , that the knowledge de- rived from sensible objects is uncertain , and that the only true science is that which is ...
... sufficient for the conduct of life . However , his secret design seems to have been to establish the doctrine of Plato , that the knowledge de- rived from sensible objects is uncertain , and that the only true science is that which is ...
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... sufficient guide , because it is unreasonable not to allow some degree of credit to those witnesses who commonly give a true report . ACADEMY , in Grecian antiquity , a large villa in one of the suburbs of Athens , where the sect of ...
... sufficient guide , because it is unreasonable not to allow some degree of credit to those witnesses who commonly give a true report . ACADEMY , in Grecian antiquity , a large villa in one of the suburbs of Athens , where the sect of ...
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... sufficient number to distinguish them from other sub- stances . See CHEMISTRY . ACIDIFIABLE buse , or RADICAL , any substance capable of uniting without de- composition with such a quantity of oxygen as to become possessed of acid ...
... sufficient number to distinguish them from other sub- stances . See CHEMISTRY . ACIDIFIABLE buse , or RADICAL , any substance capable of uniting without de- composition with such a quantity of oxygen as to become possessed of acid ...
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... sufficient to compensate for the decay of sound which arises from its being propagated through a greater space . This is finely illustrated in the celebrated echoes at the lake of Killarny , in Kerry , where the first return of the ...
... sufficient to compensate for the decay of sound which arises from its being propagated through a greater space . This is finely illustrated in the celebrated echoes at the lake of Killarny , in Kerry , where the first return of the ...
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... sufficient numbers , and also so nearly at the same instant , as to produce an echo , though the distance of the reflecting sur- face from the ear be less than the limit of echoes . This is confirmed by a singular echo in a grotto on ...
... sufficient numbers , and also so nearly at the same instant , as to produce an echo , though the distance of the reflecting sur- face from the ear be less than the limit of echoes . This is confirmed by a singular echo in a grotto on ...
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