Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, Volume 1John Brown, 1816 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... grow lefs ; as , his paffion abutes ; the form abates . It is ufed fome- times with the particle of before the thing leffen- ed - Our phyficians have obferved , that , in pro- cels of time , fome difeafes have abated of their virulence ...
... grow lefs ; as , his paffion abutes ; the form abates . It is ufed fome- times with the particle of before the thing leffen- ed - Our phyficians have obferved , that , in pro- cels of time , fome difeafes have abated of their virulence ...
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... grow , of which the natives make the best opium in the Levant . It was for- merly , a large town , but is now much reduced . Lat . 26. 30. N. * A..Bp . for ARCHBISHOP , which fee . ABRA , a filver coin ftruck in Poland , and worth about ...
... grow , of which the natives make the best opium in the Levant . It was for- merly , a large town , but is now much reduced . Lat . 26. 30. N. * A..Bp . for ARCHBISHOP , which fee . ABRA , a filver coin ftruck in Poland , and worth about ...
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... grow well in the low grounds . Formerly the territory of Aquila furnished Italy almoft exclufively with faffron ; but fince the cul- ture of that plant has been fo much followed in Lombardy , it has fallen to nothing in Abruzzo . In the ...
... grow well in the low grounds . Formerly the territory of Aquila furnished Italy almoft exclufively with faffron ; but fince the cul- ture of that plant has been fo much followed in Lombardy , it has fallen to nothing in Abruzzo . In the ...
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... grow there in as great perfection as on the Alps of Swifferland , and are applied by the natives to wounds with equal fuccefs . ABSALOM , [ pibwan , Heb . i . e . the Father's peace ! ] the fon of David by Maacah , a man as depraved in ...
... grow there in as great perfection as on the Alps of Swifferland , and are applied by the natives to wounds with equal fuccefs . ABSALOM , [ pibwan , Heb . i . e . the Father's peace ! ] the fon of David by Maacah , a man as depraved in ...
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... grow in those minds , that neithe absolutely climb the rock of virtue , nor free ! fink into the fea of vanity . Sidney . - What meri they can build upon having joined with a prote ftant army , under a king they acknowledge , t defend ...
... grow in those minds , that neithe absolutely climb the rock of virtue , nor free ! fink into the fea of vanity . Sidney . - What meri they can build upon having joined with a prote ftant army , under a king they acknowledge , t defend ...
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