British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 11Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1821 - Natural history |
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... extremely rapacious and devouring , and not unfrequently prey upon each other . Those are most esteemed which are found in the coldest streams , and they are generally regard- ed as an elegant and luxurious article of food . They appear ...
... extremely rapacious and devouring , and not unfrequently prey upon each other . Those are most esteemed which are found in the coldest streams , and they are generally regard- ed as an elegant and luxurious article of food . They appear ...
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... extremely rapid . For if the motion of light were infinite , or came to us in an instant , it is evident that we should see the commencement of an eclipse of a satellite at the same moment , at whatever distance we might be from it ...
... extremely rapid . For if the motion of light were infinite , or came to us in an instant , it is evident that we should see the commencement of an eclipse of a satellite at the same moment , at whatever distance we might be from it ...
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... extremely ac tive and nimble , climbing trees with great rapidity , and bounding from one to another with a spring truly astonishing . Some are supplied with membranes , which enable them to extend this leap into something approximating ...
... extremely ac tive and nimble , climbing trees with great rapidity , and bounding from one to another with a spring truly astonishing . Some are supplied with membranes , which enable them to extend this leap into something approximating ...
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... extremely dis- tant from each other , presents such a sur- face to the air beneath , as gives it consi- derable buoyancy , and converts its elastic bounds into a species of flight . The mem- brane is also highly serviceable in che ...
... extremely dis- tant from each other , presents such a sur- face to the air beneath , as gives it consi- derable buoyancy , and converts its elastic bounds into a species of flight . The mem- brane is also highly serviceable in che ...
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... extremely probable that every essay at imitating animated objects was in each nation made in wood originally , and it is vain to sup . pose the tools were any other at first than the sharp edges of broken stones or flints ; a visit to ...
... extremely probable that every essay at imitating animated objects was in each nation made in wood originally , and it is vain to sup . pose the tools were any other at first than the sharp edges of broken stones or flints ; a visit to ...
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Page 1 - I scarce could turn to fall upon the ground, with my head to the northward, when I felt the heat of its current plainly upon my face. We all lay flat on the ground, as if dead, till Idris told us it was blown over. The meteor, or purple haze, which I saw, was indeed passed, but the light air that still blew was of heat to threaten suffocation.
Page 5 - Of the nature of those changes which take place in the Digestion of Food. Of the Chemical Principles of the process of Tanning Leather; and of the objects that must particularly be had in view in attempts to improve that most useful art. Of the Chemical Principles of the art of making Soap ; of the art of Bleaching; of the art of Dyeing; and in general of all the Mechanical Arts, as they apply to the various branches of manufacture.
Page 25 - Hence too it follows, that the infamous and unchristian practice of withholding baptism from negro servants, lest they should thereby gain their liberty, is totally without foundation, as well as without excuse. The lĞw of England acts upon general and extensive principles : it gives liberty, rightly understood, that is, protection, to a Jew, a Turk, or a Heathen...
Page 11 - It is very probable that the great stratum called the milky way, is that in which the sun is placed, though perhaps not in the very centre of its thickness.
Page 3 - The distance between two points on the surface of a sphere is the length of the minor arc of a great circle between them.
Page 19 - To this head may also be referred the practice of what is called a set-off: whereby the defendant acknowledges the justice of the plaintiff's demand on the one hand, but on the other sets up a demand of his own, to counterbalance that of the plaintiff, either in the whole or in part...