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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... common holly , and bearing white flowers , similar to those of the common acanthus , but smaller . 6 , 7 , 8 , 9. These species , viz . the entire- leaved , procumbent , forked , and Cape acan- thi , are natives of the Cape of Good Hope ...
... common holly , and bearing white flowers , similar to those of the common acanthus , but smaller . 6 , 7 , 8 , 9. These species , viz . the entire- leaved , procumbent , forked , and Cape acan- thi , are natives of the Cape of Good Hope ...
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... common turpentine , and one ounce of flour of sulphur ; pour upon these ingredients a gallon of boiling water , work the whole together with a whisk , and let the mixture be used warin . This mixture may also be of use for preventing ...
... common turpentine , and one ounce of flour of sulphur ; pour upon these ingredients a gallon of boiling water , work the whole together with a whisk , and let the mixture be used warin . This mixture may also be of use for preventing ...
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... common M. or yar- row ; abundant in pastures and by the sides ACETOUS acid . See ACETIC ACID . ACHANIA , in botany , a genus of the Monadelphia Polyandria class , and the natu- ral order of Columniferæ . There are three species , viz ...
... common M. or yar- row ; abundant in pastures and by the sides ACETOUS acid . See ACETIC ACID . ACHANIA , in botany , a genus of the Monadelphia Polyandria class , and the natu- ral order of Columniferæ . There are three species , viz ...
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... common monk's - hood , has been long known as one of the most virulent of all vege- table poisons . Linnæus says , that it is fatal to swine and goats , but does no injury to horses , who eat it dry . He also informs us , from the ...
... common monk's - hood , has been long known as one of the most virulent of all vege- table poisons . Linnæus says , that it is fatal to swine and goats , but does no injury to horses , who eat it dry . He also informs us , from the ...
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... common , and glassy . The asbestos colours greenish grey , mountain green , smelt blue , olive green , yellowish , and liver- brown , Massive , and in capillary crystals . Soft ; brittle ; specific gravity 2.5 to 2.9 . Melts before the ...
... common , and glassy . The asbestos colours greenish grey , mountain green , smelt blue , olive green , yellowish , and liver- brown , Massive , and in capillary crystals . Soft ; brittle ; specific gravity 2.5 to 2.9 . Melts before the ...
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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.