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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... figures of bodies , and their parts , according to the settled laws of na- ture . See MECHANICS . PHYSIOGNOMY , is the peculiar com- bination of features , which designates the feelings and dispositions of the mind . That every ...
... figures of bodies , and their parts , according to the settled laws of na- ture . See MECHANICS . PHYSIOGNOMY , is the peculiar com- bination of features , which designates the feelings and dispositions of the mind . That every ...
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... figure and density : and the me- chanical elasticity of the epiglottis , and the chemical affinities exercised in respi- ration , are further examples to the same effect . Yet the energy and power of the vital force is most clearly ...
... figure and density : and the me- chanical elasticity of the epiglottis , and the chemical affinities exercised in respi- ration , are further examples to the same effect . Yet the energy and power of the vital force is most clearly ...
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... figure of objects , were it not corrected and assisted by the touch . The person born blind , mentioned by Cheselden , thought when he had gained his sight , that all ob- jects touched his eyes . A square tower , at a great distance ...
... figure of objects , were it not corrected and assisted by the touch . The person born blind , mentioned by Cheselden , thought when he had gained his sight , that all ob- jects touched his eyes . A square tower , at a great distance ...
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... figures appear on the centre of a cross , & c . of an- other colour , the cross is not to be suppos- ed pierced , but that the figure on it is a charge , and must be accordingly blazoned . PIGEON . See COLUMBA . PIGEONS . By statute 1 ...
... figures appear on the centre of a cross , & c . of an- other colour , the cross is not to be suppos- ed pierced , but that the figure on it is a charge , and must be accordingly blazoned . PIGEON . See COLUMBA . PIGEONS . By statute 1 ...
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... figure , is termed , by botanists , the hat of the mushroom . PILL . See PHARMACY . PILLAR , in architecture , a kind of irregular column , round and insulated , but deviating from the proportions of a just column . See ARCHITECTURE ...
... figure , is termed , by botanists , the hat of the mushroom . PILL . See PHARMACY . PILLAR , in architecture , a kind of irregular column , round and insulated , but deviating from the proportions of a just column . See ARCHITECTURE ...
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