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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... nearly . But it is obvious , Dr. M. Young observes , that the confinement of the voice can have little effect in increasing the strength of the sound , as this strength depends on the ve- locity with which the particles move . Were this ...
... nearly . But it is obvious , Dr. M. Young observes , that the confinement of the voice can have little effect in increasing the strength of the sound , as this strength depends on the ve- locity with which the particles move . Were this ...
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... nearly . And 9 therefore , unless the sum of the lines drawn from each of the obstacles to the points A and B ... nearly , will be described while six half , or three whole , syllables are pronounced ; that is , the speaker must stand ...
... nearly . And 9 therefore , unless the sum of the lines drawn from each of the obstacles to the points A and B ... nearly , will be described while six half , or three whole , syllables are pronounced ; that is , the speaker must stand ...
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... nearly at the same instant , as to produce an echo , though the distance of the reflecting sur- face from the ear be less than the limit of echoes . This is confirmed by a singular echo in a grotto on the banks of the little brook ...
... nearly at the same instant , as to produce an echo , though the distance of the reflecting sur- face from the ear be less than the limit of echoes . This is confirmed by a singular echo in a grotto on the banks of the little brook ...
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... nearly resembles the javanicus , except that the head is covered with very minute , rough , and warted scales , differing in size alone from those on the other part of the animal . The dubius mea- sures only about three feet in length ...
... nearly resembles the javanicus , except that the head is covered with very minute , rough , and warted scales , differing in size alone from those on the other part of the animal . The dubius mea- sures only about three feet in length ...
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... nearly three years are required . The soapy matter of latest for- mation is soft , very ductile , light , and spungy , and contains water ; in 30 or 40 years it becomes much dryer , more brittle , and assumes the appearance of dense ...
... nearly three years are required . The soapy matter of latest for- mation is soft , very ductile , light , and spungy , and contains water ; in 30 or 40 years it becomes much dryer , more brittle , and assumes the appearance of dense ...
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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.