Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, Том 7John Brown, 1816 |
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... seems to have been a very confiderable place ; as the tacred hiftorian tells us , that the Syrians of Damafcus fent 20,000 men to the relief of Hadadezer king of Zobah . We are not informed whether at that time it was governed by kings ...
... seems to have been a very confiderable place ; as the tacred hiftorian tells us , that the Syrians of Damafcus fent 20,000 men to the relief of Hadadezer king of Zobah . We are not informed whether at that time it was governed by kings ...
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... seems to be the cafe with the tops of fome high mountains , purticularly Mont Blanc , the highest in Europe ; on the top of which M. Sauffure found the atmosphere fo much impreg nated with fixed air , that lime - water expofed to it ...
... seems to be the cafe with the tops of fome high mountains , purticularly Mont Blanc , the highest in Europe ; on the top of which M. Sauffure found the atmosphere fo much impreg nated with fixed air , that lime - water expofed to it ...
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... seems to refide in our nerves . Some people , however , have their nerves conftructed in fuch a manner , that they cannot be affected by the founds which affect others , and fome fearce with any ; while o thers have fuch an irritability ...
... seems to refide in our nerves . Some people , however , have their nerves conftructed in fuch a manner , that they cannot be affected by the founds which affect others , and fome fearce with any ; while o thers have fuch an irritability ...
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... seems to have been of the chafte and platonic kind , according to the account he has himfelf given of it , in one of his early productions intitled Vita Nuova ; a mixture of mysterious poetry and profe ; in which he mentions both the ...
... seems to have been of the chafte and platonic kind , according to the account he has himfelf given of it , in one of his early productions intitled Vita Nuova ; a mixture of mysterious poetry and profe ; in which he mentions both the ...
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... seem to provoke : Captain Campbell made his escape in his veffel , and , flopping nowhere , arrived fafely at New York , and from thence to Scotland , where the company presented him with a gold medal , in which his virtue was ...
... seem to provoke : Captain Campbell made his escape in his veffel , and , flopping nowhere , arrived fafely at New York , and from thence to Scotland , where the company presented him with a gold medal , in which his virtue was ...
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