Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, Band 15John Brown, 1816 |
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... ftill grow , to fpeak in the mineralift's phrase , or receive additional increafe . Woodward ' MINERALIZATION , n . f . that procefs , of nature , by which any fubftance , animal or ve- getable , is converted into a mineral . Thus ...
... ftill grow , to fpeak in the mineralift's phrase , or receive additional increafe . Woodward ' MINERALIZATION , n . f . that procefs , of nature , by which any fubftance , animal or ve- getable , is converted into a mineral . Thus ...
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... ftill very little in use , borax being commonly employed . Whenever a mineral body is melted with any of these two falts , it is eafily feen , Whether it quickly diffolves ; in which cafe an effervefcence arifes , that lasts till the ...
... ftill very little in use , borax being commonly employed . Whenever a mineral body is melted with any of these two falts , it is eafily feen , Whether it quickly diffolves ; in which cafe an effervefcence arifes , that lasts till the ...
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... ftill farther examined by Vauquelin . Zirconia has hitherto been found only in the zircon and hyacinth . It may be ob- tained pure , by the procefs deferihed under CHE- MISTRY , 714. It precipitates in the form of a fine white powder ...
... ftill farther examined by Vauquelin . Zirconia has hitherto been found only in the zircon and hyacinth . It may be ob- tained pure , by the procefs deferihed under CHE- MISTRY , 714. It precipitates in the form of a fine white powder ...
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... ftill where duly cultivated ; abounded in all the neceffaries of life ; and was enriched with many mines of gold , which gave occafion to the fable of the Golden Fleece and the Argonautic expedition , fo much celebrated by the ancients ...
... ftill where duly cultivated ; abounded in all the neceffaries of life ; and was enriched with many mines of gold , which gave occafion to the fable of the Golden Fleece and the Argonautic expedition , fo much celebrated by the ancients ...
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... ftill more gentlemen's fa- milies here than in all the reft of the island . It hath a port commodious enough for the veffels employed in the trade of this country . The ter- mino of Fererias is the next , a narrow flip reach- ing acrofs ...
... ftill more gentlemen's fa- milies here than in all the reft of the island . It hath a port commodious enough for the veffels employed in the trade of this country . The ter- mino of Fererias is the next , a narrow flip reach- ing acrofs ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 113 - A crime, or misdemeanor, is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it.
Seite 355 - You may as well go stand upon the beach, And bid the main flood bate his usual height ; You may as well use question with the wolf, Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb ; You may as well forbid the mountain pines To wag their high tops, and to make no noise, When they are fretted with the gusts of heaven...
Seite 302 - OF Man's firft difobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whofe mortal tafte Brought death into the world, and all our woe.
Seite 133 - We do it wrong, being so majestical, To offer it the show of violence ; For it is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery.
Seite 398 - To make the killing either murder or manslaughter, it is requisite that the party die within a year and a day after the stroke received or the cause of death administered; in the computation of which the whole of the day on which the act was done shall be reckoned the first.
Seite 373 - Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me And after bite me, then like hedgehogs which Lie tumbling in my barefoot way and mount Their pricks at my footfall. Sometime am I All wound with adders who with cloven tongues Do hiss me into madness.
Seite 313 - But, besides this general licence from the king, as lord paramount of the kingdom, it was also requisite, whenever there was a mesne or intermediate lord between the king and the alienor, to obtain his licence also (upon the same feudal principles), for the alienation of the specific land.
Seite 311 - But, so long as it continues conditional, that is, between the time of lending the money and the time allotted for payment, the mortgagee is called tenant in mortgage.
Seite 398 - To kill a child in its mother's womb is now no murder, but a great misprision : but if the child be born alive and dieth by reason of the potion or bruises it received in the womb, it seems by the better opinion to be murder in such as administered or gave them.
Seite 315 - ... within six months previous to the donor's death), and unless such gift be made to take effect immediately, and be without power of revocation: and that all other ¡gifts shall be void...