American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ; Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Τόμος 1Mitchell, Ames and White, 1819 |
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... animal , which shall have no precise colour , figure , magnitude , or the like ; but it is an useful artifice of the understanding , to leave these out in our general reasonings . Thus it is that the a , b , c , & c . of the algebraists ...
... animal , which shall have no precise colour , figure , magnitude , or the like ; but it is an useful artifice of the understanding , to leave these out in our general reasonings . Thus it is that the a , b , c , & c . of the algebraists ...
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... animal may sometimes be seen for a day together struggling to get rid of its egg - shell . The mite is a very voracious animal , feasting equally upon animal and vegetable substances . It is also extremely tenacious of life ; for , upon ...
... animal may sometimes be seen for a day together struggling to get rid of its egg - shell . The mite is a very voracious animal , feasting equally upon animal and vegetable substances . It is also extremely tenacious of life ; for , upon ...
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... animals , and on dead carcases , and they are unfit for food . They live in pairs , and are monogamous ; and build their nests in lofty situations . The female is generally larger and stronger than the male , and usually lays four eggs ...
... animals , and on dead carcases , and they are unfit for food . They live in pairs , and are monogamous ; and build their nests in lofty situations . The female is generally larger and stronger than the male , and usually lays four eggs ...
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... animals , dip their arrows into the juice of these plants , which renders the wounds occasioned by them mortal . A decoction of the roots has been used to kill bugs ; and the powder , dis- guised in bread , or some other palatable ...
... animals , dip their arrows into the juice of these plants , which renders the wounds occasioned by them mortal . A decoction of the roots has been used to kill bugs ; and the powder , dis- guised in bread , or some other palatable ...
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... animal . The dubius measures only about three feet in length . A specimen is to be seen in the British Museum . Its native place is not ascer tained . A. fasciatus , resembles the du- bius so much , that some naturalists sup- pose them ...
... animal . The dubius measures only about three feet in length . A specimen is to be seen in the British Museum . Its native place is not ascer tained . A. fasciatus , resembles the du- bius so much , that some naturalists sup- pose them ...
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