The British Encyclopedia, Or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 1Whittingham, 1809 - Natural history |
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... four eggs at a time . This order corresponds to that of Feræ , and comprehends four genera , viz . VULTUR , FALCO , STRIX , and LANIUS , which see . ACCOMPANIMENT , in heraldry , de- notes any thing added to a shield by way of ornament ...
... four eggs at a time . This order corresponds to that of Feræ , and comprehends four genera , viz . VULTUR , FALCO , STRIX , and LANIUS , which see . ACCOMPANIMENT , in heraldry , de- notes any thing added to a shield by way of ornament ...
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... four - leaved ; leaflets roundish , obtuse , concave , cadu- cous ; cor . petals four , accuminate to both ends , larger than the calyx ; filaments about 30 ; germ superior ovate ; no stile ; stigma thickish , obliquely depressed ...
... four - leaved ; leaflets roundish , obtuse , concave , cadu- cous ; cor . petals four , accuminate to both ends , larger than the calyx ; filaments about 30 ; germ superior ovate ; no stile ; stigma thickish , obliquely depressed ...
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... four species , of which one only be longs to Great Britain , viz . the A. capillus veneris , which is found rarely in Scotland and Wales , on rocks and moist walls , and which is a native of the south of Europe and the Levant . From ...
... four species , of which one only be longs to Great Britain , viz . the A. capillus veneris , which is found rarely in Scotland and Wales , on rocks and moist walls , and which is a native of the south of Europe and the Levant . From ...
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... four oval acute segments , longer than the cup ; the fruit is a globose berry , situated between the calyx and co- rolla ; the calyx adheres to its under part ; the berry is umbilicated , and contains four cells ; the seeds are single ...
... four oval acute segments , longer than the cup ; the fruit is a globose berry , situated between the calyx and co- rolla ; the calyx adheres to its under part ; the berry is umbilicated , and contains four cells ; the seeds are single ...
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... four and five o'clock in the afternoon ; and in exactly three quarters of an hour they descended near the sea , at the dis- tance of four miles from Colchester . The distance of that place from Ranelagh is 60 miles ; therefore they ...
... four and five o'clock in the afternoon ; and in exactly three quarters of an hour they descended near the sea , at the dis- tance of four miles from Colchester . The distance of that place from Ranelagh is 60 miles ; therefore they ...
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Page 154 - The dexterity of hand, indeed, even in common trades, cannot be acquired without much practice and experience. But a young man would practise with much more diligence and attention if, from the beginning, he wrought as a journeyman, being paid in proportion to the little work which he could execute, and paying in his turn for the materials which he might sometimes spoil through awkwardness and inexperience.
Page 124 - The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Page 152 - It is in this manner that the policy of Europe, by restraining the competition in some employments to a smaller number than would otherwise be disposed to enter into them, occasions a very important inequality in the whole of the advantages and disadvantages of the different employments of labour and stock .... Thirdly, the policy of Europe, by obstructing the free circulation of labour and stock both from employment to employment, and from place to place...
Page 153 - When those particular incorporations which are now peculiarly called universities were first established, the term of years which it was necessary to study, in order to obtain the degree of master of arts, appears evidently to have been copied from the term of apprenticeship in common trades, of which the incorporations were much more ancient.