Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Volume 15,Parte 1Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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... give it a direction from below upwards ; and , by reafon of the lever , will give it more and more every day . The little plant is thus turned on its fixed point of feparation till it become perfectly erect . When the plant is thus ...
... give it a direction from below upwards ; and , by reafon of the lever , will give it more and more every day . The little plant is thus turned on its fixed point of feparation till it become perfectly erect . When the plant is thus ...
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... give fire with steel , nor ferment with aquafortis ; but very freely and readily calcines in the fire into a fine ... gives an account , among his experiments with the air - pump , of his preparing a tube of this plafter , closed at one ...
... give fire with steel , nor ferment with aquafortis ; but very freely and readily calcines in the fire into a fine ... gives an account , among his experiments with the air - pump , of his preparing a tube of this plafter , closed at one ...
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... gives us the notion of inert and folid body ; for that we have fuch a notion cannot be denied . TO ACT he allows to be ... give it unity and refiftance , and in a manner tie together all the parts , forming them into one mafs about their ...
... gives us the notion of inert and folid body ; for that we have fuch a notion cannot be denied . TO ACT he allows to be ... give it unity and refiftance , and in a manner tie together all the parts , forming them into one mafs about their ...
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... give it an agreeable red colour . They pour this paste , when hot , on the ftone or medal , to the thickness of about the tenth part of an inch ; they then leave it exposed to the fun , in a place free from duft . After a few days this ...
... give it an agreeable red colour . They pour this paste , when hot , on the ftone or medal , to the thickness of about the tenth part of an inch ; they then leave it exposed to the fun , in a place free from duft . After a few days this ...
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... give him a little more exercise ; but not fo much as to make him fweat too much . The beans and oats in this cafe are to be put into a bag , and beaten till the hulls are all off , and then winnowed clean ; and the bread , inftead of ...
... give him a little more exercise ; but not fo much as to make him fweat too much . The beans and oats in this cafe are to be put into a bag , and beaten till the hulls are all off , and then winnowed clean ; and the bread , inftead of ...
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