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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... substance which Aristotle had called Gavdapan , which is a reddish - 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 ...
... substance which Aristotle had called Gavdapan , which is a reddish - 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 ...
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... in June , dried in the shade , and beat in a mortar till they become like tow ; this substance is then rubbed between the hands , till the harder fibres and membranes are separated , and there remains nothing ART ART.
... in June , dried in the shade , and beat in a mortar till they become like tow ; this substance is then rubbed between the hands , till the harder fibres and membranes are separated , and there remains nothing ART ART.
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... substance , and water takes up about one - fourth , if applied before the spirit . It yields an oil , when distilled with water and alcohol . The specific gravity is 1.32 . ASARUM , or ASARA BACCA , in botany , a genus of plants without ...
... substance , and water takes up about one - fourth , if applied before the spirit . It yields an oil , when distilled with water and alcohol . The specific gravity is 1.32 . ASARUM , or ASARA BACCA , in botany , a genus of plants without ...
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... tubes , or in vessels filled with sand , ashes , or the like porous substances . This effect happens as well in vacuo as in the open air , and in crooked as well as F : : straight tubes . Some liquors , as spirit ASC ASC.
... tubes , or in vessels filled with sand , ashes , or the like porous substances . This effect happens as well in vacuo as in the open air , and in crooked as well as F : : straight tubes . Some liquors , as spirit ASC ASC.
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... substances . They are more or less gelatinous , and have the power of squirting out the water which they take in . Some of them are esculent , most of them sessile , though a few are furnished with a long stalk , or tubular stem . They ...
... substances . They are more or less gelatinous , and have the power of squirting out the water which they take in . Some of them are esculent , most of them sessile , though a few are furnished with a long stalk , or tubular stem . They ...
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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...