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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... Italian or Latin ; even the provisions for the conclave are examined , that no letters be conveyed by that means from the ministers of foreign powers , or other persons , who may have an interest in the election of the pontiff ...
... Italian or Latin ; even the provisions for the conclave are examined , that no letters be conveyed by that means from the ministers of foreign powers , or other persons , who may have an interest in the election of the pontiff ...
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... Italy . The lily of the valley claims our notice as an ornamental plant ; few are held in greater estimation ; indeed few flowers can boast such delicacy with so much fragrance . When dried they have a narcotic scent , and if reduced to ...
... Italy . The lily of the valley claims our notice as an ornamental plant ; few are held in greater estimation ; indeed few flowers can boast such delicacy with so much fragrance . When dried they have a narcotic scent , and if reduced to ...
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... Italy , and Geneva . CORPORAL , an inferior officer , under a sergeant , in a company of foot , who has charge over one of the divisions , places and relieves centinels , and keeps good order in the corps de garde ; he also re- ceives ...
... Italy , and Geneva . CORPORAL , an inferior officer , under a sergeant , in a company of foot , who has charge over one of the divisions , places and relieves centinels , and keeps good order in the corps de garde ; he also re- ceives ...
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... Italy , and is remark- able for the extreme length of its neck as well as legs ; it runs with peculiar speed , and derives , unquestionably , from this circumstance its popular designation of courier . It seems to be extremely rare , as ...
... Italy , and is remark- able for the extreme length of its neck as well as legs ; it runs with peculiar speed , and derives , unquestionably , from this circumstance its popular designation of courier . It seems to be extremely rare , as ...
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... Italy , and is unknown in Ireland and America . See Aves , Plate IV . fig . 6 . C. pica , the magpie . This bird is ex- tremely common in England , and is found in most countries between Sweden and Italy in Europe . In America it has ...
... Italy , and is unknown in Ireland and America . See Aves , Plate IV . fig . 6 . C. pica , the magpie . This bird is ex- tremely common in England , and is found in most countries between Sweden and Italy in Europe . In America it has ...
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Страница 28 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in 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 very hard as never to wear or break in pieces, no ordinary power being able to...
Страница 28 - 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 28 - ... the nature of things depending on them would be changed. Water and earth composed of old worn particles and fragments of particles, would not be of the same nature and texture now with water and earth composed of entire particles in the beginning. 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...
Страница 28 - 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 14 - The solidity of a cylinder is equal to the area of its base multiplied by its altitude.
Страница 28 - ... even so very 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. While the particles continue entire, they may compose bodies of one and the same nature and texture in all ages ; but should they wear away or break in pieces, the nature of things depending on them would be changed.