Encyclopędia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Volume 2, Part 1Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... Nature hath been profufe in beftowing her mine- ral favours on this fpot : for above the copper ore , and not more than three quarters of a yard beneath the common foil , is a bed of yellowish greafy clay , from one to four yards thick ...
... Nature hath been profufe in beftowing her mine- ral favours on this fpot : for above the copper ore , and not more than three quarters of a yard beneath the common foil , is a bed of yellowish greafy clay , from one to four yards thick ...
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... nature ; but on earth pervading elementary bodies , and inti- mately mixing with all the minute atoms thereof , it af fumes fomewhat of their nature , and becomes of a pe- culiar kind . So the poet : Spiritus Anima . Spiritus intus alit ...
... nature ; but on earth pervading elementary bodies , and inti- mately mixing with all the minute atoms thereof , it af fumes fomewhat of their nature , and becomes of a pe- culiar kind . So the poet : Spiritus Anima . Spiritus intus alit ...
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... natural history , an organized and li . ving body , which is alfo endowed with fenfation : thus , minerals are faid to grow or increase , plants to grow and live , but animals alone to have fenfation . It is this property of fenfation ...
... natural history , an organized and li . ving body , which is alfo endowed with fenfation : thus , minerals are faid to grow or increase , plants to grow and live , but animals alone to have fenfation . It is this property of fenfation ...
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... nature proceeds , by imperceptible degrees , from the most per- fect to the most imperfect animal , and from that to the vegetables ; and the fresh - water polypus may be regard- ed as the laft of animals and the first of plants . " It ...
... nature proceeds , by imperceptible degrees , from the most per- fect to the most imperfect animal , and from that to the vegetables ; and the fresh - water polypus may be regard- ed as the laft of animals and the first of plants . " It ...
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... nature has deprived them of the power of progref- five motion : but , as we obferve them conftantly to use the means which nature has given them for felf - prefer- vation , we can have no reason to think that they are deftitute of that ...
... nature has deprived them of the power of progref- five motion : but , as we obferve them conftantly to use the means which nature has given them for felf - prefer- vation , we can have no reason to think that they are deftitute of that ...
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