The British encyclopedia, or, Dictionary of arts and sciences, Volume 6 |
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... earth . Those who are negligent of this caution experience instant death . SAMOLUS , in botany , a genus of the Pentandria Monogynia class and order . Natural order of Precia . Lysimachiĉ , Jussieu . Essential character : corolla sal ...
... earth . Those who are negligent of this caution experience instant death . SAMOLUS , in botany , a genus of the Pentandria Monogynia class and order . Natural order of Precia . Lysimachiĉ , Jussieu . Essential character : corolla sal ...
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... earth , of which they consist . Add to this , that in all these boggy lands , the burning them , or firing their own turf upon them , is also a great advantage . The common peat , or turf- ashes , mixed with the sand for these pur ...
... earth , of which they consist . Add to this , that in all these boggy lands , the burning them , or firing their own turf upon them , is also a great advantage . The common peat , or turf- ashes , mixed with the sand for these pur ...
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... earth of the glacis , and yields a fragrant and wholesome smell . in order to open a covered passage into the The greatest quantity of this wood , to which moat . It is only a deep trench , covered at a sharp and attenuating virtue is ...
... earth of the glacis , and yields a fragrant and wholesome smell . in order to open a covered passage into the The greatest quantity of this wood , to which moat . It is only a deep trench , covered at a sharp and attenuating virtue is ...
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... Earth . They are so called because they al- ways attend them , and make the tour about the Sun together with them ... Earth's attendant , and applying the term satellite to the little moons more recently discovered about Jupiter , Saturn ...
... Earth . They are so called because they al- ways attend them , and make the tour about the Sun together with them ... Earth's attendant , and applying the term satellite to the little moons more recently discovered about Jupiter , Saturn ...
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... Earth , they are at their greatest distance asunder , the distance being more than before by the whole diameter of the Earth's annual orbit , or by double the Earth's distance from the Sun , then the eclipses are seen to happen the ...
... Earth , they are at their greatest distance asunder , the distance being more than before by the whole diameter of the Earth's annual orbit , or by double the Earth's distance from the Sun , then the eclipses are seen to happen the ...
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