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, Том 4Mitchell, Ames and White, 1819 |
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... taken from shells alone we are not exempt from difficulty . Shells vary exceedingly in form and colour in the different stages of their growth , and in this case we should sometimes derive material assist . ance from our knowledge of ...
... taken from shells alone we are not exempt from difficulty . Shells vary exceedingly in form and colour in the different stages of their growth , and in this case we should sometimes derive material assist . ance from our knowledge of ...
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... taken from the shell , because this we are ac- quainted with , while the animal is often- times unknown to us . But the struc- ture of the animal should be regarded in the construction of genera , when it can be ascertained , as a ...
... taken from the shell , because this we are ac- quainted with , while the animal is often- times unknown to us . But the struc- ture of the animal should be regarded in the construction of genera , when it can be ascertained , as a ...
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... Taken by Mr. G. Ord in his garden , Philadelphia . This species and the preceding are re- ferable to the genus Zonitis , Montf . a name which is objectionable from its be- ing used in Entomology . It considerably resembles Helix nitens ...
... Taken by Mr. G. Ord in his garden , Philadelphia . This species and the preceding are re- ferable to the genus Zonitis , Montf . a name which is objectionable from its be- ing used in Entomology . It considerably resembles Helix nitens ...
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... taken , and also the next species , were purchased by Mr. Joseph Watson , at the sale of the late Professor Bar- ton's collection , and by him presented to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . There is also a specimen in ...
... taken , and also the next species , were purchased by Mr. Joseph Watson , at the sale of the late Professor Bar- ton's collection , and by him presented to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . There is also a specimen in ...
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... taken with advantage along with the proper aliments , the digestion and assimilation of which they in some degree modify . They are of two kinds , saline privities , in right and representation . A familiar instance CON CON.
... taken with advantage along with the proper aliments , the digestion and assimilation of which they in some degree modify . They are of two kinds , saline privities , in right and representation . A familiar instance CON CON.
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Страница 6 - And therefore, that nature may be lasting, the changes of corporeal things are to be placed only in the various separations and new associations and motions of these permanent particles; compound bodies being apt to break not in the midst of solid particles, but where those particles are laid together and only touch in a few points.
Страница 6 - ... solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them; and that these primitive particles being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them; even so hard, as never to wear or break in pieces; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.
Страница 6 - End for which he form'd them; and that these primitive Particles being Solids, are incomparably harder than any porous Bodies compounded of them; even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces...
Страница 10 - By common law: as where a person seised in fee-simple or in fee-tail dies, and his next heirs are two or more females, his daughters, sisters, aunts, cousins, or their representatives: in this case they shall all inherit, as will be more fully shown when we treat of descents hereafter; and these co-heirs are then called coparceners; or, for brevity, parceners only.
Страница 11 - In every quadrilateral inscribed in a circle, the rectangle of the two diagonals is equivalent to the sum of the rectangles of the opposite sides.
Страница 9 - ... sheathed with copper, he might easily have pierced it. But not being well skilled in the management of the vessel, in attempting to move to another place, he lost the ship. After seeking her in vain, for some time, he rowed some distance, and rose to the surface of the water, but found daylight had advanced so far, that he durst not renew the attempt. He says...
Страница 16 - When a man by the exertion of his rational powers has produced an original work, he seems to have clearly a right to dispose of that identical work as he pleases, and any attempt to vary the disposition he has made of it appears to be an invasion of that right.
Страница 11 - The result of my inquiries, in which it would be ludicrous to boast of impartiality, is that the unities of time and place are not essential to a just drama; that, though they may sometimes conduce to pleasure, they are always to be sacrificed to the nobler beauties of variety and instruction; and that a play written with nice observation of critical rules is to be contemplated as an elaborate curiosity, as the product of superfluous and ostentatious art, by which is shown rather what is possible...
Страница 7 - ... forcing-pumps served to eject the water within, when necessary for ascending. At the top, there was likewise an oar, for ascending or descending, or continuing at any particular depth— A watergauge or barometer, determined the depth of descent, a compass directed the course, and a ventilator within, supplied the vessel with fresh air, when on the surface. The entrance into the vessel was elliptical, and so small as barely to admit a person.