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, Volume 1Mitchell, Ames and White, 1819 - Arts |
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... former conveying chyle , a milky fluid , from the intestines ; the latter a lymph , a thin pellucid liquor , from the places whence they take their origin . The lymphatics also take up any fluids that are extravasated , and likewise sub ...
... former conveying chyle , a milky fluid , from the intestines ; the latter a lymph , a thin pellucid liquor , from the places whence they take their origin . The lymphatics also take up any fluids that are extravasated , and likewise sub ...
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... former , the defendant needs only say , that he paid the plaintiff such a sum in full satisfaction of the accord , which he received . ACCOUNTANT - general , in the court of Chancery , an officer appointed by act of parliament to ...
... former , the defendant needs only say , that he paid the plaintiff such a sum in full satisfaction of the accord , which he received . ACCOUNTANT - general , in the court of Chancery , an officer appointed by act of parliament to ...
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... former demonstration , namely , vapours in the air , and then finds the motion of sound to be 1142 feet in one second , or near 13 miles in a minute , a proportion which experience had esta- blished nearly before . Many other theo- ries ...
... former demonstration , namely , vapours in the air , and then finds the motion of sound to be 1142 feet in one second , or near 13 miles in a minute , a proportion which experience had esta- blished nearly before . Many other theo- ries ...
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... former , and directly opposite to it . At the point C is to be placed the figure of a man , seated on a pedestal , with his ear exactly in the focus of the first mirror ; his lower jaw must be made to open by a wire , and shut by a ...
... former , and directly opposite to it . At the point C is to be placed the figure of a man , seated on a pedestal , with his ear exactly in the focus of the first mirror ; his lower jaw must be made to open by a wire , and shut by a ...
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... former be discharged , the latter of consequence is acquitted . ACQUITTANCE , a discharge in wri- ting for a sum of money , witnessing that the party is paid the same . A man is obliged to give an acquittance on receiving money : and a ...
... former be discharged , the latter of consequence is acquitted . ACQUITTANCE , a discharge in wri- ting for a sum of money , witnessing that the party is paid the same . A man is obliged to give an acquittance on receiving money : and a ...
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