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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... kind , and hence they take their names , as A. coleopte- rous , found on the black beetle . ( See plate I. Entomology , fig . 1 and 2. ) These insects , which are often very trouble- some on plants , and in hot - houses , may be ...
... kind , and hence they take their names , as A. coleopte- rous , found on the black beetle . ( See plate I. Entomology , fig . 1 and 2. ) These insects , which are often very trouble- some on plants , and in hot - houses , may be ...
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... kind . See COTYLEDONES . ACOUSTICS , in physics , is that science which instructs us in the nature of sound . It is divided by some writers into diacoustics , which explains the properties of those sounds that come distinctly from the ...
... kind . See COTYLEDONES . ACOUSTICS , in physics , is that science which instructs us in the nature of sound . It is divided by some writers into diacoustics , which explains the properties of those sounds that come distinctly from the ...
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... kind was offered at Paris in 1786 and 1787 , when the old burial ground of the Innocens was laid out for building upon , in consequence of which , the surface soil , and the animal remains con- tained therein , were removed . This ...
... kind was offered at Paris in 1786 and 1787 , when the old burial ground of the Innocens was laid out for building upon , in consequence of which , the surface soil , and the animal remains con- tained therein , were removed . This ...
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... kind , the whole mass of which , including its covering and contents , and the several weights annexed to it , is of less specific gravity than that of the air in which it rises . Heat is well known to rarefy and expand , and conse ...
... kind , the whole mass of which , including its covering and contents , and the several weights annexed to it , is of less specific gravity than that of the air in which it rises . Heat is well known to rarefy and expand , and conse ...
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... kind of cloud in the bag , and when it be- came sufficiently expanded , it ascended rapidly to the ceiling . Soon afterwards the experiment was repeated by the two bro- thers at Annonay in the open air , when the machine ascended to the ...
... kind of cloud in the bag , and when it be- came sufficiently expanded , it ascended rapidly to the ceiling . Soon afterwards the experiment was repeated by the two bro- thers at Annonay in the open air , when the machine ascended to 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.