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 2Mitchell, Ames and White, 1819 |
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... Colour greenish and pearl grey ; in the middle often violet and green . Always crystallized in regular six - sided prisms . Fracture between imperfect , foliated , and fibrous . Colour arranged in the direc- tion of the fibres ; the ...
... Colour greenish and pearl grey ; in the middle often violet and green . Always crystallized in regular six - sided prisms . Fracture between imperfect , foliated , and fibrous . Colour arranged in the direc- tion of the fibres ; the ...
Strona 32
... coloured mineral , composed of arsenic and sulphur , used by the ancients in painting , and as a medicine . ARSENIC , as it is to be found in the shops , occurs in the state of a white ox- ide , from which the metal may be obtain- ed by ...
... coloured mineral , composed of arsenic and sulphur , used by the ancients in painting , and as a medicine . ARSENIC , as it is to be found in the shops , occurs in the state of a white ox- ide , from which the metal may be obtain- ed by ...
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... colour , with small tuber- cles thinly scattered over it . Wherever the tree is wounded , it pours out a glutinous milky liquor . The branches form an am- ple almost globular head ; the lower ones , which are the longest , spring from ...
... colour , with small tuber- cles thinly scattered over it . Wherever the tree is wounded , it pours out a glutinous milky liquor . The branches form an am- ple almost globular head ; the lower ones , which are the longest , spring from ...
Strona 15
... colour : the eyes black : the upper half of the abdomen velvet black ; the lower half bright orange colour ; the whole having a bright silky or downy surface : the wings are a dull yellow brown , and marked on their inner edge by ...
... colour : the eyes black : the upper half of the abdomen velvet black ; the lower half bright orange colour ; the whole having a bright silky or downy surface : the wings are a dull yellow brown , and marked on their inner edge by ...
Strona 16
... Colour , asparagus - green , sometimes passing to a greenish - white , or pistachio - green , some- times between orange and yellowish brown ; always crystalized in equiangu- lar six - sided prisms ; frangible , brittle . Specific ...
... Colour , asparagus - green , sometimes passing to a greenish - white , or pistachio - green , some- times between orange and yellowish brown ; always crystalized in equiangu- lar six - sided prisms ; frangible , brittle . Specific ...
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Strona 22 - The ideas of -goblins and sprites have really no more to do with darkness than light : yet let but a foolish maid inculcate these often on the mind of a child, and raise them there together, possibly he shall never be able to separate them again so long as he lives ; but darkness shall ever afterwards bring with it those frightful ideas, and they shall be so joined, that he can no more bear the one than the other.
Strona 22 - That which thus captivates their reasons, and leads men of sincerity blindfold from common sense, will, when examined, be found to be what we are speaking of ; some independent ideas, of no alliance to one another, are by education, custom and the constant din of their party, so coupled in their minds, that they always appear there together...