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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... common pleas , whose treatises on the sub . ject were read with avidity , and , while they abounded in instruction , excited a taste and emulation for the pursuits of husbandry . Sir Hugh Platt followed this path of genuine patriotism ...
... common pleas , whose treatises on the sub . ject were read with avidity , and , while they abounded in instruction , excited a taste and emulation for the pursuits of husbandry . Sir Hugh Platt followed this path of genuine patriotism ...
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... common practice of indiscriminately sowing grass seeds from tife foul hay rack , including a mixture of almost every species of grass seeds and rubbish . The species of grass appropriated to any particular soil or application being ...
... common practice of indiscriminately sowing grass seeds from tife foul hay rack , including a mixture of almost every species of grass seeds and rubbish . The species of grass appropriated to any particular soil or application being ...
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... common one , and what is called the magazine air - gun . See PNEU- MATICS . AIR - pipes , a contrivance invented by Mr. Sutton , a brewer of London , for clearing the holds of ships , and other close places , of their foul air . The ...
... common one , and what is called the magazine air - gun . See PNEU- MATICS . AIR - pipes , a contrivance invented by Mr. Sutton , a brewer of London , for clearing the holds of ships , and other close places , of their foul air . The ...
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... common lark does not hatch before the month of May . This is a very tender and delicate bird ; so that it is impossible to rear the young taken out of the nest : but this is the case only in England and such cold cli- mates , for in ...
... common lark does not hatch before the month of May . This is a very tender and delicate bird ; so that it is impossible to rear the young taken out of the nest : but this is the case only in England and such cold cli- mates , for in ...
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... common worm - still are now more generally employ- ed . See CHEMISTRY , DISTILLATION , & c . ALETRIS , in botany , a genus of the Hex- andria Monogynia class and order , of the natural order of Lilia or Liliacea , of which there are ...
... common worm - still are now more generally employ- ed . See CHEMISTRY , DISTILLATION , & c . ALETRIS , in botany , a genus of the Hex- andria Monogynia class and order , of the natural order of Lilia or Liliacea , of which there are ...
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