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 10Mitchell, Ames and White, 1821 |
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... Italians he appropriated by the form of their noses , their diminutive eyes , and projecting chins . The eye - brows and foreheads are the criterion by which to judge of the natives of England . The Dutch possess a particular rotundity ...
... Italians he appropriated by the form of their noses , their diminutive eyes , and projecting chins . The eye - brows and foreheads are the criterion by which to judge of the natives of England . The Dutch possess a particular rotundity ...
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... gen- tleman asserts , he never had been able to draw them with any tolerable accuracy ; and , in this particular , the Italian face was equally difficult . : ་ . standings , unless attended by marks of a PHYSIOGNOMY .
... gen- tleman asserts , he never had been able to draw them with any tolerable accuracy ; and , in this particular , the Italian face was equally difficult . : ་ . standings , unless attended by marks of a PHYSIOGNOMY .
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... Italy , Spain , & c . Nearly 30,000 hogsheads are exported annually . PILE , any heap , as a pile of balls , shells , & c . PILE , in antiquity , a pyramid built of wood , on which the bodies of the deceas- ed were laid in order to be ...
... Italy , Spain , & c . Nearly 30,000 hogsheads are exported annually . PILE , any heap , as a pile of balls , shells , & c . PILE , in antiquity , a pyramid built of wood , on which the bodies of the deceas- ed were laid in order to be ...
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... Italians into a kind of silk ; the shells themselves are generally found standing erect in the smoother waters of the bays , with the larger end a little open : the fish of se- veral of the species affords a rich food . We do not know ...
... Italians into a kind of silk ; the shells themselves are generally found standing erect in the smoother waters of the bays , with the larger end a little open : the fish of se- veral of the species affords a rich food . We do not know ...
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... Italy , Switzerland , & c . equal to about ten shillings and six- pence of our money . PISTON , in pump - work , is a short cy- linder of metal , or other solid substance , fitted exactly to the cavity of the barrel or body of the pump ...
... Italy , Switzerland , & c . equal to about ten shillings and six- pence of our money . PISTON , in pump - work , is a short cy- linder of metal , or other solid substance , fitted exactly to the cavity of the barrel or body of the pump ...
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