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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... sometimes open , as in the words talk , walk ; and at others close , as take , wake . A is also used , on many occasions , as a character , mark , or abbreviation . Thus , in the calender , it is the first of the domi- nical letters ...
... sometimes open , as in the words talk , walk ; and at others close , as take , wake . A is also used , on many occasions , as a character , mark , or abbreviation . Thus , in the calender , it is the first of the domi- nical letters ...
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... sometimes be seen for a day together struggling to get rid of its egg - shell . The mite is a very voracious animal , feasting equally upon animal and vegetable substances . It is also extremely tenacious of life ; for , upon the ...
... sometimes be seen for a day together struggling to get rid of its egg - shell . The mite is a very voracious animal , feasting equally upon animal and vegetable substances . It is also extremely tenacious of life ; for , upon the ...
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... sometimes ripen fruit . ACHERNER , in astronomy , a star of the first magnitude in the southern extre- mity of the constellation Eridanus . See the article ERIDANUS . to September : mixed instead of hops by the inhabitants of Dalecarlia ...
... sometimes ripen fruit . ACHERNER , in astronomy , a star of the first magnitude in the southern extre- mity of the constellation Eridanus . See the article ERIDANUS . to September : mixed instead of hops by the inhabitants of Dalecarlia ...
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... sometimes softer , now more near , then more distant . There is an ac- count , in the Memoirs of the French Aca- demy , of a similar echo near Rome . It has been already observed , that every point against which the pulses of sound ...
... sometimes softer , now more near , then more distant . There is an ac- count , in the Memoirs of the French Aca- demy , of a similar echo near Rome . It has been already observed , that every point against which the pulses of sound ...
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... sometimes they can even dis- tinguish whether any person be in the room or not . A great deal of furniture in a room checks , in a great measure , the sounds that are produced in it , for they hinder the free communication of the vi ...
... sometimes they can even dis- tinguish whether any person be in the room or not . A great deal of furniture in a room checks , in a great measure , the sounds that are produced in it , for they hinder the free communication of the vi ...
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