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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... square , and sometimes octagonal . : SALPA , in natural history , a genus of the Vermes Mollusca class and order : body loose , nayant , gelatinous , tubular , and open at each extremity intestine placed obliquely eleven species have ...
... square , and sometimes octagonal . : SALPA , in natural history , a genus of the Vermes Mollusca class and order : body loose , nayant , gelatinous , tubular , and open at each extremity intestine placed obliquely eleven species have ...
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... square , raised upon a small frame , so as to lie hol- low , which board was divided into a great number of little squares , by lines inter- secting one another perpendicularly , and parallel to the sides of the table , and the parallel ...
... square , raised upon a small frame , so as to lie hol- low , which board was divided into a great number of little squares , by lines inter- secting one another perpendicularly , and parallel to the sides of the table , and the parallel ...
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... square . Persons travelling on the roads , or abroad in the fields , found it very uneasy to make their way through them , they would so beat and knock themselves against their faces in their flight , and with such a force as to make ...
... square . Persons travelling on the roads , or abroad in the fields , found it very uneasy to make their way through them , they would so beat and knock themselves against their faces in their flight , and with such a force as to make ...
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... square - sail . In larger ships it is the fore - sail . SCULPTURE . It is beyond human research to ascertain when this art was first practised , and by what nation . We may , however , safely conjecture that it was almost one of the ...
... square - sail . In larger ships it is the fore - sail . SCULPTURE . It is beyond human research to ascertain when this art was first practised , and by what nation . We may , however , safely conjecture that it was almost one of the ...
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... square stalks , and opposite leaves ; the flowers are either solitary , axillary , and naked , or else in terminating bracted spikes , with one bracte , or floral leaf , to each flower ; they are chiefly natives of the south of Europe ...
... square stalks , and opposite leaves ; the flowers are either solitary , axillary , and naked , or else in terminating bracted spikes , with one bracte , or floral leaf , to each flower ; they are chiefly natives of the south of Europe ...
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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...