The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful Knowledge, Τόμος 11Charles Knight, 1838 |
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... animals is used as fuel : and from the use of camel's dung the formation of sal ammoniac was derived in Egypt ; this salt subliming from the excrement during its combustion . In small chemical operations , as for the blow - pipe ...
... animals is used as fuel : and from the use of camel's dung the formation of sal ammoniac was derived in Egypt ; this salt subliming from the excrement during its combustion . In small chemical operations , as for the blow - pipe ...
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... animal heat in the icy regions inhabited by these birds . We select as our example : - Somateria mollissima ( Anas mollissima , Linn . ) , the Eider Duck . This is the Oie à duvet ou Eider of the French ; Die Eidergans and Eiterente of ...
... animal heat in the icy regions inhabited by these birds . We select as our example : - Somateria mollissima ( Anas mollissima , Linn . ) , the Eider Duck . This is the Oie à duvet ou Eider of the French ; Die Eidergans and Eiterente of ...
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... animals , among which muscles and other conchifers , turbinated testaceans , and occasionally sea - eggs ( Echini ) are said to be taken . Utility to Man . - The down above described is the prin- cipal tribute paid by the Eider Duck to ...
... animals , among which muscles and other conchifers , turbinated testaceans , and occasionally sea - eggs ( Echini ) are said to be taken . Utility to Man . - The down above described is the prin- cipal tribute paid by the Eider Duck to ...
Σελίδα 8
... animals which were met with during the period in which the expedition remained within the Arctic Circle , appended to Captain Sir W. E. Parry's First Voyage , nor in Captain James Ross's Ap- pendix to Captain Sir John Ross's Last Voyage ...
... animals which were met with during the period in which the expedition remained within the Arctic Circle , appended to Captain Sir W. E. Parry's First Voyage , nor in Captain James Ross's Ap- pendix to Captain Sir John Ross's Last Voyage ...
Σελίδα 11
... animal and vegetable , form its food , particularly the Zostera , or Grass - wrack , for which it dives like others of its congeners . Late in the evening , or early in the morning , ' writes Nuttall in his Manual , * towards spring ...
... animal and vegetable , form its food , particularly the Zostera , or Grass - wrack , for which it dives like others of its congeners . Late in the evening , or early in the morning , ' writes Nuttall in his Manual , * towards spring ...
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Σελίδα 212 - I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed.
Σελίδα 212 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Σελίδα 70 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Σελίδα 125 - This is another factor which may have caused local cultivation of grain to increase in the second half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth century.
Σελίδα 157 - An Act for the security of Her " Majesty's Person and Government, and of the " succession to the Crown of Great Britain in the
Σελίδα 168 - Charlotte, in which are equally involved the happiness of your royal highness in your parental and royal character, and the most important interests of the state, that the intercourse between her royal highness the princess of Wales, and her royal highness the princess Charlotte, should continue to be subject to regulation and restraint.
Σελίδα 127 - geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy...
Σελίδα 289 - A Catalogue of the Bishops of England since the first planting of the Christian Religion in this Island ; together with a brief history of their lives and memorable actions, as near as can be gathered from antiquity.
Σελίδα 159 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Σελίδα 212 - A candid but rational inquiry into the progress and establishment of Christianity may be considered as a very essential part of the history of the Roman empire. While that great body was invaded by open violence, or undermined by slow decay, a pure and humble religion gently insinuated itself into the minds of men, grew up in silence and obscurity, derived new...