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, Volume 9Mitchell, Ames and White, 1821 - Natural history |
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... mind rise up and disappear , accord- ing as we set ourselves to call them into view ; and , therefore , without some par- ticular method of fixing and ascertaining them as they occur , the retrieving them when out of sight would be no ...
... mind rise up and disappear , accord- ing as we set ourselves to call them into view ; and , therefore , without some par- ticular method of fixing and ascertaining them as they occur , the retrieving them when out of sight would be no ...
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... mind , by sensation or by imagination . OBJECT glass of a telescope , or microscope , the glass placed at the end of the tube which is next the object . To prove the goodness and regularity of an object - glass , on a paper describe two ...
... mind , by sensation or by imagination . OBJECT glass of a telescope , or microscope , the glass placed at the end of the tube which is next the object . To prove the goodness and regularity of an object - glass , on a paper describe two ...
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... mind , he says , judges of the size of objects by means of a preconceived idea of their distance from us ; and this distance is fancied to be greater , when a number of objects are interposed between the eye and the body we are viewing ...
... mind , he says , judges of the size of objects by means of a preconceived idea of their distance from us ; and this distance is fancied to be greater , when a number of objects are interposed between the eye and the body we are viewing ...
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... mind that contemplates the works of nature , for the purpose of obtaining a glimpse of the beauty which they display , and of the power which they manifest . By this science we ob- tain , not only a knowledge of the peculiar beings ...
... mind that contemplates the works of nature , for the purpose of obtaining a glimpse of the beauty which they display , and of the power which they manifest . By this science we ob- tain , not only a knowledge of the peculiar beings ...
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... mind , it cannot fall under any judicial cognisance . Bare words are held not to amount to an overt act , unless put into writing ; in which case they are then held to be an overt act , as arguing a more diliberate intention . No ...
... mind , it cannot fall under any judicial cognisance . Bare words are held not to amount to an overt act , unless put into writing ; in which case they are then held to be an overt act , as arguing a more diliberate intention . No ...
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