The British Encyclopedia, Or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge : Illustrated with Upwards of 150 Elegant Engravings. N - R. 5Longman, 1809 - 680 pages |
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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 fire . These birds form pensile nests , se- cure from all depredation . They are about seven inches long . O. galbula , or the golden oriole , is as large as a blackbird , and of a fine golden yellow , with wings almost ...
... sensation of fire . These birds form pensile nests , se- cure from all depredation . They are about seven inches long . O. galbula , or the golden oriole , is as large as a blackbird , and of a fine golden yellow , with wings almost ...
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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 ex- plain , as far as our limited powers will per ...
... 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 ex- plain , as far as our limited powers will per ...
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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 . Re- sentment is a far more generous inmate , be- cause it possesses the power of discriminat- ing an unintentional from a voluntary in- sult , and is vented generally , and immedi- ately , in words alone . It must be obvious ...
... sensation . Re- sentment is a far more generous inmate , be- cause it possesses the power of discriminat- ing an unintentional from a voluntary in- sult , and is vented generally , and immedi- ately , in words alone . It must be obvious ...
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