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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... side to side . In the up- per space every string has two beads , which are each counted for five ; and in the lowest space every string has five beads , of dif- ferent values , the first being counted as 1 , the second as 10 , the third ...
... side to side . In the up- per space every string has two beads , which are each counted for five ; and in the lowest space every string has five beads , of dif- ferent values , the first being counted as 1 , the second as 10 , the third ...
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... side : general habit and appearance like the genus Chatodon , which see . This genus consists of such species of the Linnæan ge- nus Chaetodon , as , in contradiction to the principal character of that genus , have mo- derately broad ...
... side : general habit and appearance like the genus Chatodon , which see . This genus consists of such species of the Linnæan ge- nus Chaetodon , as , in contradiction to the principal character of that genus , have mo- derately broad ...
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... side the head : feelers two , jointed ; egg - shaped . The most familiar species are , 1. the A. siro , or common cheese - mite , which is a favourite subject for microscopic observations . This insect is covered with hairs or bristles ...
... side the head : feelers two , jointed ; egg - shaped . The most familiar species are , 1. the A. siro , or common cheese - mite , which is a favourite subject for microscopic observations . This insect is covered with hairs or bristles ...
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... wide space , without being supported on either side , there is a certain degree of diver- gence , by means of which it sometimes becomes audible in every part of the me- dium transmitting it : but the sound thus diverging is ...
... wide space , without being supported on either side , there is a certain degree of diver- gence , by means of which it sometimes becomes audible in every part of the me- dium transmitting it : but the sound thus diverging is ...
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... side of an inch and a half in diameter , in which is drilled small holes . On this side seven , ten , or more strings of very fine gut are stretched over bridges at each end , like the bridge of a fiddle , and screwed up or re- laxed ...
... side of an inch and a half in diameter , in which is drilled small holes . On this side seven , ten , or more strings of very fine gut are stretched over bridges at each end , like the bridge of a fiddle , and screwed up or re- laxed ...
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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.