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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... birds , in the Linnæan system of ornithology , the first order of birds ; the characters of which are , that the bill bends downwards , that the up- per mandible is dilated a little on both sides towards the point , or armed with a ...
... birds , in the Linnæan system of ornithology , the first order of birds ; the characters of which are , that the bill bends downwards , that the up- per mandible is dilated a little on both sides towards the point , or armed with a ...
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... birds , and annexed to the human body , might bear it up , and by their motion , produced either by mechanical ... bird with that of the muscles of the breast and arms of a man , finds the latter altogether insufficient to produce , by ...
... birds , and annexed to the human body , might bear it up , and by their motion , produced either by mechanical ... bird with that of the muscles of the breast and arms of a man , finds the latter altogether insufficient to produce , by ...
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... birds of the order of Passeres ; the cha- racters of which are , that the beak is cylin- drical , subulate , and straight , bending to- wards the point , the mandibles are of equal size and opening downwards at their base ; the tongue ...
... birds of the order of Passeres ; the cha- racters of which are , that the beak is cylin- drical , subulate , and straight , bending to- wards the point , the mandibles are of equal size and opening downwards at their base ; the tongue ...
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... bird , or attracted by a mate , in either of which cases they fall like a stone These small birds , at the height to which they soar , are liable to be wafted by the wind ; and they have been observed at sea , clinging to the masts and ...
... bird , or attracted by a mate , in either of which cases they fall like a stone These small birds , at the height to which they soar , are liable to be wafted by the wind ; and they have been observed at sea , clinging to the masts and ...
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... bird , and apt to catch the note of any other which hangs near it , even after its own note is fixed , the bird- fanciers often place it next to one which has not been long caught , in order to keep the caged sky - lark honest . Plate ...
... bird , and apt to catch the note of any other which hangs near it , even after its own note is fixed , the bird- fanciers often place it next to one which has not been long caught , in order to keep the caged sky - lark honest . Plate ...
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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.