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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... feet . The shell is composed chiefly of sand and very fine fragments of shells ; the tubes straightish , two or ... feet high , according to the goodness of the ground ; in very good rich soils , canes have been measured nearly twenty ...
... feet . The shell is composed chiefly of sand and very fine fragments of shells ; the tubes straightish , two or ... feet high , according to the goodness of the ground ; in very good rich soils , canes have been measured nearly twenty ...
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... feet and three quarters long , and has been seen of the length of six , and weighing in this case seventy - four pounds . This fish is re- markable for the excellence of its fla- vour , and its richness , and is a welcome dish at every ...
... feet and three quarters long , and has been seen of the length of six , and weighing in this case seventy - four pounds . This fish is re- markable for the excellence of its fla- vour , and its richness , and is a welcome dish at every ...
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... feet high , spreading wide . The leaves on the principal stalk , and those on the lower part of the branches , are long , slender , and have no spines those on the upper part of the stalk and branches are slender , short , and crooked ...
... feet high , spreading wide . The leaves on the principal stalk , and those on the lower part of the branches , are long , slender , and have no spines those on the upper part of the stalk and branches are slender , short , and crooked ...
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... feet , laying their hands on their breast , & c . In Eng- land , we salute by uncovering the head , bending the body , & c . The pope for- merly paid reverence to none except the emperor , to whom he stooped a very lit- tle , when he ...
... feet , laying their hands on their breast , & c . In Eng- land , we salute by uncovering the head , bending the body , & c . The pope for- merly paid reverence to none except the emperor , to whom he stooped a very lit- tle , when he ...
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... of the glacis . SAPPHIC , in poetry , a kind of verse much used by the Greeks and Latins , de- nominated from the inventress Sappho . The sapphic verse consists of five feet , C whereof the first , fourth , and fifth , are SAN SAP.
... of the glacis . SAPPHIC , in poetry , a kind of verse much used by the Greeks and Latins , de- nominated from the inventress Sappho . The sapphic verse consists of five feet , C whereof the first , fourth , and fifth , are SAN SAP.
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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.
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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...