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... natural history , a genus of insects of the order Aptera . Some of the in- sects of this genus , of which there are seventy or eighty species , infest the bodies of quadrupeds , some infest birds , some insects , besides which there is ...
... natural history , a genus of insects of the order Aptera . Some of the in- sects of this genus , of which there are seventy or eighty species , infest the bodies of quadrupeds , some infest birds , some insects , besides which there is ...
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... natural history , genus of birds of the order Anseres , of which there are thirty species . The Pelican onocrotatus , or the great pelican , is sometimes of the weight of 25lh . and the width between the extreme points of the wings , of ...
... natural history , genus of birds of the order Anseres , of which there are thirty species . The Pelican onocrotatus , or the great pelican , is sometimes of the weight of 25lh . and the width between the extreme points of the wings , of ...
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... natural history and commerce , an aromatic , dry , and hot berry . Black - pepper , the fruit of a shrub of the ... naturally white . PERAMBULATOR , in mechanics , an instrument used by surveyors in measuring distances , and also known ...
... natural history and commerce , an aromatic , dry , and hot berry . Black - pepper , the fruit of a shrub of the ... naturally white . PERAMBULATOR , in mechanics , an instrument used by surveyors in measuring distances , and also known ...
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... natural history , the conversion of wood , bones , and other substances into stone . Petrified bodies are more or less altered from their original state , according to the different substances among which they have lain in the earth ...
... natural history , the conversion of wood , bones , and other substances into stone . Petrified bodies are more or less altered from their original state , according to the different substances among which they have lain in the earth ...
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... natural history , one of the two sub- stances of which porcelain is made ; a coarse kind of flint . The other is ... nature , whether according to the usual course of things , or uncommon , or drawn forth by experiment . PHALENA , the ...
... natural history , one of the two sub- stances of which porcelain is made ; a coarse kind of flint . The other is ... nature , whether according to the usual course of things , or uncommon , or drawn forth by experiment . PHALENA , the ...
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Page 40 - By this way of analysis we may proceed from compounds to ingredients; and from motions to the forces producing them; and in general, from effects to their causes; and from particular causes to more general ones, till the argument end in the most general.
Page 395 - Matthew then, among the Jews, wrote a gospel in their own language, while Peter and Paul were preaching the gospel at Rome, and founding a church there.
Page 40 - As in mathematics, so in natural philosophy, the investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis, ought ever to precede the method of composition. This analysis consists in making experiments and observations, and in drawing general conclusions from them by induction, and admitting of no objections against the conclusions, but such as are taken from experiments, or other certain truths. For hypotheses are not to be regarded in experimental philosophy.
Page 394 - Among these were reckoned the four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; the Acts of the Apostles; the Epistles of the apostle Paul...
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Page 40 - And although the arguing from experiments and observations by induction be no demonstration of general conclusions, yet it is the best way of arguing which the nature of things admits of, and may be looked upon as so much the stronger, by how much the induction is more general.
Page 149 - When the whole is put for a part, or a part for the whole; a genus for a species, or a species for a genus; the singular...
Page 205 - He is likewise to decide the elections of knights of the shire, (subject to the control of the house of commons,) of coroners, and of verderors ; to judge of the qualification of voters, and to return such as he shall determine to be duly elected.
Page 35 - ... connected together in the fancy, that the idea of the one seems, of its own accord, to call up and introduce that of the other. If the objects are still observed to succeed each other as before, this connection, or, as it has been called, this association of...
Page 112 - Hottoman to be a rescript, or answer of the sovereign, delivered, by advice of his council, to some college, order, or body of people, upon consulting him on some case of their community. The like answer, given to any particular person, is called simply rescript.