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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... pain- ful , than the very first exercise of deduc- ing them one from another . As , there- fore , we have frequent occasion to look back upon the discoveries already made , could these be no otherwise brought into view than by the same ...
... pain- ful , than the very first exercise of deduc- ing them one from another . As , there- fore , we have frequent occasion to look back upon the discoveries already made , could these be no otherwise brought into view than by the same ...
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... pain which this ope- ration occasions is extreme ; and hence cattle , as if foreseeing their cruel enemy , are observed to be seized with the most violent horror when apprehensive of the approaches of the female oestrus , flying ...
... pain which this ope- ration occasions is extreme ; and hence cattle , as if foreseeing their cruel enemy , are observed to be seized with the most violent horror when apprehensive of the approaches of the female oestrus , flying ...
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... pain for hire , or perhaps for friendship . Fire ordeal was perform- ed either by taking up in the hand a piece of red hot iron , of one , two , or three pounds weight ; or else by walking bare- foot and blindfold over nine red hot ...
... pain for hire , or perhaps for friendship . Fire ordeal was perform- ed either by taking up in the hand a piece of red hot iron , of one , two , or three pounds weight ; or else by walking bare- foot and blindfold over nine red hot ...
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... PAIN , is defined to be an uneasy sen- sation arising from a sudden and violent solution of the continuity , or some other accident in the nerves , membranes , ves- sels , muscles , & c . of the body ; or , accord- ing to some , it ...
... PAIN , is defined to be an uneasy sen- sation arising from a sudden and violent solution of the continuity , or some other accident in the nerves , membranes , ves- sels , muscles , & c . of the body ; or , accord- ing to some , it ...
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... , practising law or physic ; from holding offices civil or military ; were subject to excommunication ; could not travel five miles from home , nor come to court , un- der pain of 100. Marriages and burials of Papists were PAP PAP.
... , practising law or physic ; from holding offices civil or military ; were subject to excommunication ; could not travel five miles from home , nor come to court , un- der pain of 100. Marriages and burials of Papists were PAP PAP.
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