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Page 166
... vessels are small , yet obstructions in them do not produce great chronical diseases ? 581. Whether faculties are not enlarged and improved by exercise ? 582. Whether the sum of the faculties put into act , or , in other words , the ...
... vessels are small , yet obstructions in them do not produce great chronical diseases ? 581. Whether faculties are not enlarged and improved by exercise ? 582. Whether the sum of the faculties put into act , or , in other words , the ...
Page 205
... vessel , which is left standing till the tar sinks to the bottom . A glass of water , being poured off for a draught , is replaced by the same quantity of fresh water , the vessel being shaken and left to stand as before . And this is ...
... vessel , which is left standing till the tar sinks to the bottom . A glass of water , being poured off for a draught , is replaced by the same quantity of fresh water , the vessel being shaken and left to stand as before . And this is ...
Page 206
... vessel must stand close covered and unmoved three days and nights , that the tar may have full time to subside ; and then the clear water , having been first carefully skimmed without shaking the vessel , is to be poured off , and kept ...
... vessel must stand close covered and unmoved three days and nights , that the tar may have full time to subside ; and then the clear water , having been first carefully skimmed without shaking the vessel , is to be poured off , and kept ...
Page 210
... vessels of the tree , whence it is only freed and let loose ( not made ) by burning . If we may believe Pliny , the first running or tar was called cedrium , and was of such efficacy to preserve from putrefaction that in Egypt they ...
... vessels of the tree , whence it is only freed and let loose ( not made ) by burning . If we may believe Pliny , the first running or tar was called cedrium , and was of such efficacy to preserve from putrefaction that in Egypt they ...
Page 215
... vessels are observed to be fine tubes running up through the trunk from the root . Secretory vessels are found in the bark , buds , leaves , and flowers . Exhaling vessels , for carrying off excrementitious parts , are discovered ...
... vessels are observed to be fine tubes running up through the trunk from the root . Secretory vessels are found in the bark , buds , leaves , and flowers . Exhaling vessels , for carrying off excrementitious parts , are discovered ...
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Page 388 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 390 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep ; so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.