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 12Mitchell, Ames and White, 1821 - Natural history |
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... supposed to signify the destruction of the world by fire , & c . commonly called the last judgment , must be understood according to the above science , which teaches , that by the end of the world is not meant the destruction of it ...
... supposed to signify the destruction of the world by fire , & c . commonly called the last judgment , must be understood according to the above science , which teaches , that by the end of the world is not meant the destruction of it ...
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... supposed , that the motion of fish in the water depends principally up- on the pectoral fins , but the contrary is easily proved by experiment ; for if the pectoral fins of a fish are cut off , and it be again put into the water , it ...
... supposed , that the motion of fish in the water depends principally up- on the pectoral fins , but the contrary is easily proved by experiment ; for if the pectoral fins of a fish are cut off , and it be again put into the water , it ...
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... supposed , by a cursory observer , the real leaves of some of the fuci tribe . In the one presented to Sir Joseph Banks , and engraved in Shaw's Zoology , there are fourteen of these curious processes . This animal presents one of the ...
... supposed , by a cursory observer , the real leaves of some of the fuci tribe . In the one presented to Sir Joseph Banks , and engraved in Shaw's Zoology , there are fourteen of these curious processes . This animal presents one of the ...
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... supposed to grow naturally in some parts of Persia ; but is so hardy as to resist the greatest cold of this country . SYRINGE , an instrument serving to imbibe , or suck in a quantity of any fluid , and to squirt or expel the same with ...
... supposed to grow naturally in some parts of Persia ; but is so hardy as to resist the greatest cold of this country . SYRINGE , an instrument serving to imbibe , or suck in a quantity of any fluid , and to squirt or expel the same with ...
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... supposed to be transparent , acquired ; they must be so perfectly fa.every adverse argument. Or t , the nineteenth letter , and fif- TABLE , in perspective , denotes a the sound whereof is formed by a strong expulsion of the breath ...
... supposed to be transparent , acquired ; they must be so perfectly fa.every adverse argument. Or t , the nineteenth letter , and fif- TABLE , in perspective , denotes a the sound whereof is formed by a strong expulsion of the breath ...
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