Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Volumen6,Parte1Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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... rife abun- dantly . Several good varieties may alfo be expected from the plants of each fowing ; and poffibly not one exactly like those from which the feed was faved . The fingle flowers are always more numerous than the double ones ...
... rife abun- dantly . Several good varieties may alfo be expected from the plants of each fowing ; and poffibly not one exactly like those from which the feed was faved . The fingle flowers are always more numerous than the double ones ...
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... rife two or three feet high , crowned with fpikes of yellow iron - coloured or purple flowers . The thrubby fort rifes five or fix feet high , having fpear fhaped rough leaves , four or five inches long , and half as broad ; the ...
... rife two or three feet high , crowned with fpikes of yellow iron - coloured or purple flowers . The thrubby fort rifes five or fix feet high , having fpear fhaped rough leaves , four or five inches long , and half as broad ; the ...
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... rife to a certain degree of dignity when their objects are grand or elevated . The fame is the cafe of the fym- pathetic paffions : a virtuous perfon behaving with for- titude and dignity under cruel misfortunes , makes a capital figure ...
... rife to a certain degree of dignity when their objects are grand or elevated . The fame is the cafe of the fym- pathetic paffions : a virtuous perfon behaving with for- titude and dignity under cruel misfortunes , makes a capital figure ...
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... rife ftill higher in our esteem : The reafon of which is explained above . Dii . DIGNITY , in oratory , is one of the three parts of , general elocution ; and confifts in the right ufe of tropes and figures . See ORATORY , no 48 . H ...
... rife ftill higher in our esteem : The reafon of which is explained above . Dii . DIGNITY , in oratory , is one of the three parts of , general elocution ; and confifts in the right ufe of tropes and figures . See ORATORY , no 48 . H ...
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... rife gradually out of the pedestal , aud on drawing up the glafs will disappear in an inftant . Obferve , that when you exhibit this experiment , you must put out all the lights in the room ; and the box fhould be pla- ced on a high ...
... rife gradually out of the pedestal , aud on drawing up the glafs will disappear in an inftant . Obferve , that when you exhibit this experiment , you must put out all the lights in the room ; and the box fhould be pla- ced on a high ...
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Página 66 - Being asked how he was able so readily to find the cup that had been thrown in, he replied, that it happened to be flung by the waves into the cavity of a rock, against which he himself was urged in his descent.
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Página 68 - ... their descent ; and to let it out again when they were drawn up full from below. And to a hole in the uppermost part of these barrels, I fixed a leathern trunk or hose well liquored with bees...
Página 65 - ... but, upon its approach, it was known to be Nicholas, whom they took into their ship. When they asked him whither he was going in so stormy and rough a sea, and at such a distance from land, he...
Página 248 - ... in the body of this earth, is to consolidate the sediment collected at the bottom of the sea, and to form thereof a mass of permanent land above the level of the ocean, for the purpose of maintaining plants and animals. The power appointed for this purpose is, as on all other...