The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful Knowledge, Τόμος 11Charles Knight, 1838 |
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... body , with the intention of healing either generally , or particular parts . The vapours of hot vinegar , burning sulphur , and of aro- matic vegetable matters , have been long used to counteract unpleasant or unwholesome smells : this ...
... body , with the intention of healing either generally , or particular parts . The vapours of hot vinegar , burning sulphur , and of aro- matic vegetable matters , have been long used to counteract unpleasant or unwholesome smells : this ...
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... body was embalmed ; and , when the process was completed , placed in a sort of chest , which was afterwards preserved either in their houses or in the sepulchres of their ancestors . Before the dead were allowed to be deposited in a ...
... body was embalmed ; and , when the process was completed , placed in a sort of chest , which was afterwards preserved either in their houses or in the sepulchres of their ancestors . Before the dead were allowed to be deposited in a ...
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... Body ; ' setting salt or candles upon it ; fune- ral entertainments ; sin - eaters ; mortuaries ; following the ... bodies , having a concentric mode of development , often when full grown almost amorphous , absorbing oxygen and exhaling ...
... Body ; ' setting salt or candles upon it ; fune- ral entertainments ; sin - eaters ; mortuaries ; following the ... bodies , having a concentric mode of development , often when full grown almost amorphous , absorbing oxygen and exhaling ...
Σελίδα 21
... body of the furnace . The former is space beneath it therefore constituted the air - chamber , and metals , funnels are commonly made of copper , pewter , or tin plate , and this is especially the case when they are em- inches from the ...
... body of the furnace . The former is space beneath it therefore constituted the air - chamber , and metals , funnels are commonly made of copper , pewter , or tin plate , and this is especially the case when they are em- inches from the ...
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... body being from 10 to 12 inches long . The best fur is yielded by the oldest animals . They are taken by snares and in traps , and are sometimes shot , while running , with blunt arrows . The sable is a native of Northern Europe and ...
... body being from 10 to 12 inches long . The best fur is yielded by the oldest animals . They are taken by snares and in traps , and are sometimes shot , while running , with blunt arrows . The sable is a native of Northern Europe and ...
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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...