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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... star D , and the star will appear at E. This discovery was made by Dr. Bradley , in his observa- tions to determine the annual parallax of the fixed stars , or that which arises from the motion of the earth in its orbit round the sun ...
... star D , and the star will appear at E. This discovery was made by Dr. Bradley , in his observa- tions to determine the annual parallax of the fixed stars , or that which arises from the motion of the earth in its orbit round the sun ...
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... star of the first magnitude , in the southern extremity of the constellation Eridanus . See the article ERIDANUS . ACHILLEA , milfoil , in botany , so called from Achilles , who is supposed to have ac- quired some knowledge of botany ...
... star of the first magnitude , in the southern extremity of the constellation Eridanus . See the article ERIDANUS . ACHILLEA , milfoil , in botany , so called from Achilles , who is supposed to have ac- quired some knowledge of botany ...
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... star above the horizon , at sunset ; or to its setting , when the sun rises . Acro . nichal is one of the three poetical risings of a star ; the other two being called cosmical and helical . This term is also applied to the superior ...
... star above the horizon , at sunset ; or to its setting , when the sun rises . Acro . nichal is one of the three poetical risings of a star ; the other two being called cosmical and helical . This term is also applied to the superior ...
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... stars seem increased , and their light ap- pears brighter than usual . The lustre of the milky - way is like a pure flame , that shoots across the heavens , and with the naked eye we may observe clusters of stars totally in- yisible in ...
... stars seem increased , and their light ap- pears brighter than usual . The lustre of the milky - way is like a pure flame , that shoots across the heavens , and with the naked eye we may observe clusters of stars totally in- yisible in ...
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... star , the frag- ment , the punctuated , the petrefaction , the coral , and the jasper agate . No country . affords finer agate , or in greater abundance , than Germany : it is found in great quantity at Oberstein , where several ...
... star , the frag- ment , the punctuated , the petrefaction , the coral , and the jasper agate . No country . affords finer agate , or in greater abundance , than Germany : it is found in great quantity at Oberstein , where several ...
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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.