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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... four segments ; and the fruit is a cap- sule , in which are contained many seeds . There are four species . ARGEMONE , in botany , a genus of the Polyand : Monogynia class of plants , the calyx of which is a roundish spatha , composed ...
... four segments ; and the fruit is a cap- sule , in which are contained many seeds . There are four species . ARGEMONE , in botany , a genus of the Polyand : Monogynia class of plants , the calyx of which is a roundish spatha , composed ...
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... four species . A sphyræna , or European atherine , inhabits the Mediterranean , and sometimes wanders to the British coast , it is from two to four inches long ; body round and tapering ; back and sides , as far as the lateral line ...
... four species . A sphyræna , or European atherine , inhabits the Mediterranean , and sometimes wanders to the British coast , it is from two to four inches long ; body round and tapering ; back and sides , as far as the lateral line ...
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... four- leaved ; petals four : female calyx five- leaved ; no corol ; three styles forked ; capsule three celled : seeds solitary . There is but a single species , a shrub , found in Jamaica , with a whitish bark ; leaves oval ; flowers ...
... four- leaved ; petals four : female calyx five- leaved ; no corol ; three styles forked ; capsule three celled : seeds solitary . There is but a single species , a shrub , found in Jamaica , with a whitish bark ; leaves oval ; flowers ...
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... four centuries , con- firm the opinion that they are the works of a copyist . Upon the whole , this trea- tise of Boethius does not warrant our re- jecting the commonly received system with regard to the origin of our arithme- tic ; but ...
... four centuries , con- firm the opinion that they are the works of a copyist . Upon the whole , this trea- tise of Boethius does not warrant our re- jecting the commonly received system with regard to the origin of our arithme- tic ; but ...
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... four rules , do not necessarily make a fundamental part of arithmetic . ADDITION . Addition is that operation by which we find the amount of two or more numbers . The method of doing this in simple cases is obvious , as soon as the ...
... four rules , do not necessarily make a fundamental part of arithmetic . ADDITION . Addition is that operation by which we find the amount of two or more numbers . The method of doing this in simple cases is obvious , as soon as the ...
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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...