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, Tom 4Mitchell, Ames and White, 1819 |
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... than may be imagined ; of this we could adduce many very remarkable instances ; a few it may be necessary to mention , to guard the common observer from forming hasty and erroneous conlu- sions . Many of CONCHOLOGY .
... than may be imagined ; of this we could adduce many very remarkable instances ; a few it may be necessary to mention , to guard the common observer from forming hasty and erroneous conlu- sions . Many of CONCHOLOGY .
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... necessary in order to their being impreg- nated with the sugar , the condita , except a few that contain a large proportion of a more fixed aromatic substance , can be considered only as sugar . This is often applied to the acid and ...
... necessary in order to their being impreg- nated with the sugar , the condita , except a few that contain a large proportion of a more fixed aromatic substance , can be considered only as sugar . This is often applied to the acid and ...
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... necessary that the one party should have an estate in possession by right or wrong , and the other an estate on right from which the confirmation may come , and the one estate must continue till the other operates . CONFIRMATION , in ...
... necessary that the one party should have an estate in possession by right or wrong , and the other an estate on right from which the confirmation may come , and the one estate must continue till the other operates . CONFIRMATION , in ...
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... necessary , they will meet . 1. When FE and EG are parallel : ( fig . 17. ) let PQ meet these lines in M and N : then DMX MF : PM × MQ :: EN × NG : PN NG ( Pr . 10 ) : but it is plain that DM X MF = EN X NG ; therefore PMX MQ = PN X NG ...
... necessary , they will meet . 1. When FE and EG are parallel : ( fig . 17. ) let PQ meet these lines in M and N : then DMX MF : PM × MQ :: EN × NG : PN NG ( Pr . 10 ) : but it is plain that DM X MF = EN X NG ; therefore PMX MQ = PN X NG ...
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... necessary to the forming a contract , that a nudum pactum , or agreement to do or pay any thing on one side , without any compensation on the other , is totally void in law ; and a man cannot be compelled to perform it . A con ...
... necessary to the forming a contract , that a nudum pactum , or agreement to do or pay any thing on one side , without any compensation on the other , is totally void in law ; and a man cannot be compelled to perform it . A con ...
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Strona 6 - And therefore, that nature may be lasting, the changes of corporeal things are to be placed only in the various separations and new associations and motions of these permanent particles; compound bodies being apt to break not in the midst of solid particles, but where those particles are laid together and only touch in a few points.
Strona 6 - ... solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them; and that these primitive particles being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them; even so hard, as never to wear or break in pieces; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.
Strona 6 - End for which he form'd them; and that these primitive Particles being Solids, are incomparably harder than any porous Bodies compounded of them; even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces...
Strona 10 - By common law: as where a person seised in fee-simple or in fee-tail dies, and his next heirs are two or more females, his daughters, sisters, aunts, cousins, or their representatives: in this case they shall all inherit, as will be more fully shown when we treat of descents hereafter; and these co-heirs are then called coparceners; or, for brevity, parceners only.
Strona 11 - In every quadrilateral inscribed in a circle, the rectangle of the two diagonals is equivalent to the sum of the rectangles of the opposite sides.
Strona 9 - ... sheathed with copper, he might easily have pierced it. But not being well skilled in the management of the vessel, in attempting to move to another place, he lost the ship. After seeking her in vain, for some time, he rowed some distance, and rose to the surface of the water, but found daylight had advanced so far, that he durst not renew the attempt. He says...
Strona 16 - When a man by the exertion of his rational powers has produced an original work, he seems to have clearly a right to dispose of that identical work as he pleases, and any attempt to vary the disposition he has made of it appears to be an invasion of that right.
Strona 11 - The result of my inquiries, in which it would be ludicrous to boast of impartiality, is that the unities of time and place are not essential to a just drama; that, though they may sometimes conduce to pleasure, they are always to be sacrificed to the nobler beauties of variety and instruction; and that a play written with nice observation of critical rules is to be contemplated as an elaborate curiosity, as the product of superfluous and ostentatious art, by which is shown rather what is possible...
Strona 7 - ... forcing-pumps served to eject the water within, when necessary for ascending. At the top, there was likewise an oar, for ascending or descending, or continuing at any particular depth— A watergauge or barometer, determined the depth of descent, a compass directed the course, and a ventilator within, supplied the vessel with fresh air, when on the surface. The entrance into the vessel was elliptical, and so small as barely to admit a person.