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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... soil towards the end of March , and left to grow , about six inches asunder , till au- tumn , when they should be transplanted where they are to remain ; or by roots , which may be planted either in spring or autumn for the third sort ...
... soil towards the end of March , and left to grow , about six inches asunder , till au- tumn , when they should be transplanted where they are to remain ; or by roots , which may be planted either in spring or autumn for the third sort ...
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... soil , and the animal remains con- tained therein , were removed . This cemetery having been for ages appropriated to the reception of the dead , in one of the most populous districts in Paris , was eminently well calculated to exhibit ...
... soil , and the animal remains con- tained therein , were removed . This cemetery having been for ages appropriated to the reception of the dead , in one of the most populous districts in Paris , was eminently well calculated to exhibit ...
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... soil of Arabia . ÆSCHYNOMENE , a word from the Greek , signifying to be ashamed , because it retreats from the touch : bastard sensitive plant , in botany , a genus of the Diadelphia Decandria class and order , and of the natural order ...
... soil of Arabia . ÆSCHYNOMENE , a word from the Greek , signifying to be ashamed , because it retreats from the touch : bastard sensitive plant , in botany , a genus of the Diadelphia Decandria class and order , and of the natural order ...
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... soil is similar to that of the lower region . The air here is cool and refreshing , and every breeze is loaded with a thousand perfumes , the whole ground being covered over with the richest aromatic plants . Many parts of this region ...
... soil is similar to that of the lower region . The air here is cool and refreshing , and every breeze is loaded with a thousand perfumes , the whole ground being covered over with the richest aromatic plants . Many parts of this region ...
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... all the time from Moses to Christ ; and lastly , the age of grace , or the number of years elapsed since the birth of Christ . Among ancient historians , the duration of • returned to the soil for all that is thus AGA AGE.
... all the time from Moses to Christ ; and lastly , the age of grace , or the number of years elapsed since the birth of Christ . Among ancient historians , the duration of • returned to the soil for all that is thus AGA AGE.
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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.