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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... native of the city of Samos ; but at what period he flourished is not certain . It must have been before the time of Archimedes , as some parts of his writings and opinions are cited by that author .. He held the doctrine of Pytha ...
... native of the city of Samos ; but at what period he flourished is not certain . It must have been before the time of Archimedes , as some parts of his writings and opinions are cited by that author .. He held the doctrine of Pytha ...
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... natives of Peru , by the different arrangements of their grains of maze , surpass the Euro- pean , aided by all his rules , with regard both to accuracy and dispatch . The He- brews and Greeks , however , at a very early period , and ...
... natives of Peru , by the different arrangements of their grains of maze , surpass the Euro- pean , aided by all his rules , with regard both to accuracy and dispatch . The He- brews and Greeks , however , at a very early period , and ...
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... natives of Archangel , and the ad- jacent governments , of the lowest class ; they are frequently slaves , generally of the crown ; and yet the merchant has no to distrust their fidelity , partly from the nature of their association ...
... natives of Archangel , and the ad- jacent governments , of the lowest class ; they are frequently slaves , generally of the crown ; and yet the merchant has no to distrust their fidelity , partly from the nature of their association ...
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... native of our less temperate climate can do by ploughing in the cold winter , and reaping in the summer's heat , as often as these seasons return ; even if , after he has procured bread for his present household , he should convert a ...
... native of our less temperate climate can do by ploughing in the cold winter , and reaping in the summer's heat , as often as these seasons return ; even if , after he has procured bread for his present household , he should convert a ...
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... natives of Otaheite reckon at least eight varieties of trees which produce the former . This most useful tree is distri- buted very extensively over the East In- dian continent and islands , as well as the innumerable islands of the ...
... natives of Otaheite reckon at least eight varieties of trees which produce the former . This most useful tree is distri- buted very extensively over the East In- dian continent and islands , as well as the innumerable islands of 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...