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 3Mitchell, Ames and White, 1819 - Natural history |
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... nerally received opinion , took its rise in Sicily . Bucolics , says Vossius , have some conformity with comedy . Like it , they are pictures and imitations of ordinary life ; with this difference , however , that comedy represents the ...
... nerally received opinion , took its rise in Sicily . Bucolics , says Vossius , have some conformity with comedy . Like it , they are pictures and imitations of ordinary life ; with this difference , however , that comedy represents the ...
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... nerally two or three more growing on the edge of the leaves . The flowers are pro- duced at the ends of the branches single : these are of a pale yellow colour , and have scaly calyxes . It grows naturally in America . B. arborescens ...
... nerally two or three more growing on the edge of the leaves . The flowers are pro- duced at the ends of the branches single : these are of a pale yellow colour , and have scaly calyxes . It grows naturally in America . B. arborescens ...
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... nerally of a yellowish brown colour , with its tail straight , bushy , and tipped with white , from the base of which it emits a rank and fetid odour . The skill of the fox in the construction of its mansion ranks it among the higher ...
... nerally of a yellowish brown colour , with its tail straight , bushy , and tipped with white , from the base of which it emits a rank and fetid odour . The skill of the fox in the construction of its mansion ranks it among the higher ...
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... nerally are from 44 to 81 , or thereabouts , The point blank range of a cannon is that distance at which the shot cuts a line , supposed to be drawn parallel with the surface of earth , at a distance equal to the height of the chase of ...
... nerally are from 44 to 81 , or thereabouts , The point blank range of a cannon is that distance at which the shot cuts a line , supposed to be drawn parallel with the surface of earth , at a distance equal to the height of the chase of ...
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... nerally be found to exhibit an alternate inflation and contraction , resembling that of the lungs in the larger animals . This species is found during the summer on various plants , and particularly on net- tles . CANTHIUM , in botany ...
... nerally be found to exhibit an alternate inflation and contraction , resembling that of the lungs in the larger animals . This species is found during the summer on various plants , and particularly on net- tles . CANTHIUM , in botany ...
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