The British Encyclopedia, Or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Τόμος 1Whittingham, 1809 |
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... ancient mathematicians , was a table strewed over with dust , or sand , on which they drew their figures or schemes . ABACUS , in arithmetic , an instrument for facilitating operations by means of counters . Its form is various ; but ...
... ancient mathematicians , was a table strewed over with dust , or sand , on which they drew their figures or schemes . ABACUS , in arithmetic , an instrument for facilitating operations by means of counters . Its form is various ; but ...
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... ancients , were called Academici ; whereas those who have done the same , since the restoration of learning , have as- sumed the denomination of Platonists . We usually reckon three sects of Academics ; though some make five . The ancient ...
... ancients , were called Academici ; whereas those who have done the same , since the restoration of learning , have as- sumed the denomination of Platonists . We usually reckon three sects of Academics ; though some make five . The ancient ...
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... ancients were so surprised at their pernicious effects , that they were afraid to touch the plants ; and hence sprung ... ancient writers , be the same with ours , or should be refer- red to the genus of Ranunculus . It is confi- dently ...
... ancients were so surprised at their pernicious effects , that they were afraid to touch the plants ; and hence sprung ... ancient writers , be the same with ours , or should be refer- red to the genus of Ranunculus . It is confi- dently ...
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... ancient custom ; these effects , however much to be regretted , are only partial , and infor- mation is still making its way into the most remote recesses , and the most stubborn minds . With a view to lessen the darkness and intricacy ...
... ancient custom ; these effects , however much to be regretted , are only partial , and infor- mation is still making its way into the most remote recesses , and the most stubborn minds . With a view to lessen the darkness and intricacy ...
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... ancient , and partly of novel institution , enforced by the consideration of rewards and punishments , both temporal and eternal , and to bring all to the obedience of Mahomet , as the prophet and ambassador of God , who was to ...
... ancient , and partly of novel institution , enforced by the consideration of rewards and punishments , both temporal and eternal , and to bring all to the obedience of Mahomet , as the prophet and ambassador of God , who was to ...
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Σελίδα 154 - The dexterity of hand, indeed, even in common trades, cannot be acquired without much practice and experience. But a young man would practise with much more diligence and attention if, from the beginning, he wrought as a journeyman, being paid in proportion to the little work which he could execute, and paying in his turn for the materials which he might sometimes spoil through awkwardness and inexperience.
Σελίδα 124 - The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Σελίδα 152 - It is in this manner that the policy of Europe, by restraining the competition in some employments to a smaller number than would otherwise be disposed to enter into them, occasions a very important inequality in the whole of the advantages and disadvantages of the different employments of labour and stock .... Thirdly, the policy of Europe, by obstructing the free circulation of labour and stock both from employment to employment, and from place to place...
Σελίδα 153 - When those particular incorporations which are now peculiarly called universities were first established, the term of years which it was necessary to study, in order to obtain the degree of master of arts, appears evidently to have been copied from the term of apprenticeship in common trades, of which the incorporations were much more ancient.