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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... body , it pro- duces a heat proportional to the quantity of absorption . When the instrument is exposed to the solar rays , those rays that are absorbed by the dark colour , heat the interior air , which causes the liquor to descend at ...
... body , it pro- duces a heat proportional to the quantity of absorption . When the instrument is exposed to the solar rays , those rays that are absorbed by the dark colour , heat the interior air , which causes the liquor to descend at ...
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... body completely organized . " Man , " says the Professor , " was undoubtedly intended to be the inhabitant of all climates and all soils . Hence the seeds of many internal propensities must be latent in him , which shall remain inactive ...
... body completely organized . " Man , " says the Professor , " was undoubtedly intended to be the inhabitant of all climates and all soils . Hence the seeds of many internal propensities must be latent in him , which shall remain inactive ...
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... body is the eye ; if therefore thine eye be sin- gle , thy whole body shall be full of light ! but if thine eye be evil , thy whole body shall be full of darkness : if therefore that light that is in thee be darkness , how great is that ...
... body is the eye ; if therefore thine eye be sin- gle , thy whole body shall be full of light ! but if thine eye be evil , thy whole body shall be full of darkness : if therefore that light that is in thee be darkness , how great is that ...
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... bodies execute . It presupposes , therefore , a knowledge of the structure of the body , which is the object of anatomy ; the latter may be called the science of organization , while physiology is the science of life . The two subjects ...
... bodies execute . It presupposes , therefore , a knowledge of the structure of the body , which is the object of anatomy ; the latter may be called the science of organization , while physiology is the science of life . The two subjects ...
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... body , to which they have ascribed powers of see- ing and feeling , and even of acting with design . are A more close inspection of any living body will speedily convince us , that this force , which holds together its compo- nent parts ...
... body , to which they have ascribed powers of see- ing and feeling , and even of acting with design . are A more close inspection of any living body will speedily convince us , that this force , which holds together its compo- nent parts ...
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