A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature and Practical Mechanics: Comprising a Popular View of the Present State of Knowledge : Illustrated by Numerous Engravings, a General Atlas, and Appropriate Diagrams, Band 1Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 |
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... surfaces are flatted against the mast by the force of the wind . This may be either by a sudden change of the wind , or an ... surface . In the centre or midst of the Pegm , there was an aback or square in which this elegy was written ...
... surfaces are flatted against the mast by the force of the wind . This may be either by a sudden change of the wind , or an ... surface . In the centre or midst of the Pegm , there was an aback or square in which this elegy was written ...
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... surface , being that whose texture has been vitiated or separated by the formation of pus or purulent matter . ABCEDARY , or ABCEDARIAN , an epithet given to compositions whose parts are arranged in the order of the alphabet , chiefly ...
... surface , being that whose texture has been vitiated or separated by the formation of pus or purulent matter . ABCEDARY , or ABCEDARIAN , an epithet given to compositions whose parts are arranged in the order of the alphabet , chiefly ...
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... surface of the river , which at ebb - tide here is 19 feet deep . The old town was formerly the seat of the bishop , and had a large cathedral commonly called St. Macher's . Two very antique spires , and one aisle , which is used as a ...
... surface of the river , which at ebb - tide here is 19 feet deep . The old town was formerly the seat of the bishop , and had a large cathedral commonly called St. Macher's . Two very antique spires , and one aisle , which is used as a ...
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... surface of the abyss , is never level with that of the ocean . The existence of such abyss or receptacle of sub- terraneous waters , is controverted by Camera- rius ; but the arguments on each side of this con- troversy may be seen ...
... surface of the abyss , is never level with that of the ocean . The existence of such abyss or receptacle of sub- terraneous waters , is controverted by Camera- rius ; but the arguments on each side of this con- troversy may be seen ...
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... surface . For about two feet immediately under the earth it is hard and pure ; at a greater depth it becomes coarse and soft , till exposed to the air . It is cut with an adze into pieces of the shape of a whetstone , and passed among ...
... surface . For about two feet immediately under the earth it is hard and pure ; at a greater depth it becomes coarse and soft , till exposed to the air . It is cut with an adze into pieces of the shape of a whetstone , and passed among ...
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