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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... COTTON it the produce of the gossy- pium , a plant about the size of a currant bush , a native of the torrid zone , though it is produced in parts of Turkey , so far as 44 or 45 degrees from the equator . The finest cotton is known by ...
... COTTON it the produce of the gossy- pium , a plant about the size of a currant bush , a native of the torrid zone , though it is produced in parts of Turkey , so far as 44 or 45 degrees from the equator . The finest cotton is known by ...
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... COTTON spinning , the art or process of reducing cotton - wool into yarn or thread . The most simple method for this purpose , and the only one in use for a long time in this country , was by the hand , upon the well - known domestic ma ...
... COTTON spinning , the art or process of reducing cotton - wool into yarn or thread . The most simple method for this purpose , and the only one in use for a long time in this country , was by the hand , upon the well - known domestic ma ...
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... cotton , folded or plaited ; in salt - wort and all the pot - herbs , they are spiral , or twisted like a screw . DICRANIUM , in botany , a genus of the Cryptogamia Musci class and order . Capsule ovate , oblong ; fringe simple , of ...
... cotton , folded or plaited ; in salt - wort and all the pot - herbs , they are spiral , or twisted like a screw . DICRANIUM , in botany , a genus of the Cryptogamia Musci class and order . Capsule ovate , oblong ; fringe simple , of ...
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... cotton , in hopes that , as the warm season advanced , the animal would revive from its suspended vitality . This hope , however , was not gratified . As the jerboa is not seen in Canada from October till May , it may be concluded that ...
... cotton , in hopes that , as the warm season advanced , the animal would revive from its suspended vitality . This hope , however , was not gratified . As the jerboa is not seen in Canada from October till May , it may be concluded that ...
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... cotton , and such - like substances , affords no bad spe- cimens of this sort ; since the thread which has been produced by this means has often been so very fine , as almost to exceed the bounds of credibility , had it not been ...
... cotton , and such - like substances , affords no bad spe- cimens of this sort ; since the thread which has been produced by this means has often been so very fine , as almost to exceed the bounds of credibility , had it not been ...
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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.