Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, Τόμος 15John Brown, 1816 |
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Σελίδα 7
... present ( see 14. 15. ) , which , from its greater proportion or activity , ftamps the character of the water , and gives it thofe properties by which it is moft readily diftinguished . This fubftance claims the greateft attention ...
... present ( see 14. 15. ) , which , from its greater proportion or activity , ftamps the character of the water , and gives it thofe properties by which it is moft readily diftinguished . This fubftance claims the greateft attention ...
Σελίδα 16
... present time , have been engaged in this attempt , their fuccefs has been but limited . In botany and zoology , regular methods have been propofed and follow- ed : in mineralogy , however , the greater number of writers , excepting ...
... present time , have been engaged in this attempt , their fuccefs has been but limited . In botany and zoology , regular methods have been propofed and follow- ed : in mineralogy , however , the greater number of writers , excepting ...
Σελίδα 30
... present imperfect state of mineralogy , I do not take upon me to deter- mine . But furely the want of fuccefs , which has hitherto attended all attempts to combine the two arrangements , ought to fuggeft the propriety of feparating them ...
... present imperfect state of mineralogy , I do not take upon me to deter- mine . But furely the want of fuccefs , which has hitherto attended all attempts to combine the two arrangements , ought to fuggeft the propriety of feparating them ...
Σελίδα 31
... present known are ten in num- ber ; namely , 1. Barytes ; 2. Strontian ; 3. Lime ; 4. Magnefia ; 5. Alumina ; 6. Yttria ; 7. Glucina ; 8. Zirconia ; 9. Aguftina ; 10. Silica . " Every one of the above characteristics is not perhaps ...
... present known are ten in num- ber ; namely , 1. Barytes ; 2. Strontian ; 3. Lime ; 4. Magnefia ; 5. Alumina ; 6. Yttria ; 7. Glucina ; 8. Zirconia ; 9. Aguftina ; 10. Silica . " Every one of the above characteristics is not perhaps ...
Σελίδα 35
... present this feems unneceffary . " The following is a view of the different gene- ra belonging to this order , denoted each by its fymbol . Every genus is followed by the fpecies included under it ; and the whole are in the order which ...
... present this feems unneceffary . " The following is a view of the different gene- ra belonging to this order , denoted each by its fymbol . Every genus is followed by the fpecies included under it ; and the whole are in the order which ...
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Σελίδα 113 - A crime, or misdemeanor, is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it.
Σελίδα 355 - You may as well go stand upon the beach, And bid the main flood bate his usual height ; You may as well use question with the wolf, Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb ; You may as well forbid the mountain pines To wag their high tops, and to make no noise, When they are fretted with the gusts of heaven...
Σελίδα 302 - OF Man's firft difobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whofe mortal tafte Brought death into the world, and all our woe.
Σελίδα 133 - We do it wrong, being so majestical, To offer it the show of violence ; For it is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery.
Σελίδα 398 - To make the killing either murder or manslaughter, it is requisite that the party die within a year and a day after the stroke received or the cause of death administered; in the computation of which the whole of the day on which the act was done shall be reckoned the first.
Σελίδα 373 - Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me And after bite me, then like hedgehogs which Lie tumbling in my barefoot way and mount Their pricks at my footfall. Sometime am I All wound with adders who with cloven tongues Do hiss me into madness.
Σελίδα 313 - But, besides this general licence from the king, as lord paramount of the kingdom, it was also requisite, whenever there was a mesne or intermediate lord between the king and the alienor, to obtain his licence also (upon the same feudal principles), for the alienation of the specific land.
Σελίδα 311 - But, so long as it continues conditional, that is, between the time of lending the money and the time allotted for payment, the mortgagee is called tenant in mortgage.
Σελίδα 398 - To kill a child in its mother's womb is now no murder, but a great misprision : but if the child be born alive and dieth by reason of the potion or bruises it received in the womb, it seems by the better opinion to be murder in such as administered or gave them.
Σελίδα 315 - ... within six months previous to the donor's death), and unless such gift be made to take effect immediately, and be without power of revocation: and that all other ¡gifts shall be void...