Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, Zväzok 15John Brown, 1816 |
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Strana 16
... plants , pieces of wood , shells of fishes , & c . are turned into ftone by petrifying waters . And M. Chaptal , and other modern chemifts infift , that PIT COAL is originally a mass of vegetable fubftances mine- ralized . See CHEMISTRY ...
... plants , pieces of wood , shells of fishes , & c . are turned into ftone by petrifying waters . And M. Chaptal , and other modern chemifts infift , that PIT COAL is originally a mass of vegetable fubftances mine- ralized . See CHEMISTRY ...
Strana 99
... plants ; and ranking in the natural method under the 22d order , Caryophyllea . ( 1. ) * MINUET . n . f . [ menuet , Fr. ] A ftately re- gular dance.- The tender creature could not fee his fate , With whom she'd danc'd a minuet so late ...
... plants ; and ranking in the natural method under the 22d order , Caryophyllea . ( 1. ) * MINUET . n . f . [ menuet , Fr. ] A ftately re- gular dance.- The tender creature could not fee his fate , With whom she'd danc'd a minuet so late ...
Strana 101
... beau was elected prefident , and cut a moft con- fpicuous figure ; and had he lived , would , in all probability , by his eminent abilities and prudent measures , riegated flowers alfo on the fame plants . This fpecies MIR ( 101 ) MIR.
... beau was elected prefident , and cut a moft con- fpicuous figure ; and had he lived , would , in all probability , by his eminent abilities and prudent measures , riegated flowers alfo on the fame plants . This fpecies MIR ( 101 ) MIR.
Strana 102
... plants ; and in the natural method rank- ing with thofe of which the order is doubtful . The corolla is funnel - shaped above ; the calyx in- ferior ; the nectarium globular , containing the germen . The most remarkable fpecies are ...
... plants ; and in the natural method rank- ing with thofe of which the order is doubtful . The corolla is funnel - shaped above ; the calyx in- ferior ; the nectarium globular , containing the germen . The most remarkable fpecies are ...
Strana 124
... plant doth moft rea- dily take upon are the apple , the afh , and fome other smooth rind trees : whenever a branch of an oak tree hath any of these plants growing upon it , it is cut off , and preferved by the curious in their ...
... plant doth moft rea- dily take upon are the apple , the afh , and fome other smooth rind trees : whenever a branch of an oak tree hath any of these plants growing upon it , it is cut off , and preferved by the curious in their ...
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Strana 113 - A crime, or misdemeanor, is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it.
Strana 355 - You may as well go stand upon the beach, And bid the main flood bate his usual height ; You may as well use question with the wolf, Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb ; You may as well forbid the mountain pines To wag their high tops, and to make no noise, When they are fretted with the gusts of heaven...
Strana 302 - OF Man's firft difobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whofe mortal tafte Brought death into the world, and all our woe.
Strana 133 - We do it wrong, being so majestical, To offer it the show of violence ; For it is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery.
Strana 398 - To make the killing either murder or manslaughter, it is requisite that the party die within a year and a day after the stroke received or the cause of death administered; in the computation of which the whole of the day on which the act was done shall be reckoned the first.
Strana 373 - Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me And after bite me, then like hedgehogs which Lie tumbling in my barefoot way and mount Their pricks at my footfall. Sometime am I All wound with adders who with cloven tongues Do hiss me into madness.
Strana 313 - But, besides this general licence from the king, as lord paramount of the kingdom, it was also requisite, whenever there was a mesne or intermediate lord between the king and the alienor, to obtain his licence also (upon the same feudal principles), for the alienation of the specific land.
Strana 311 - But, so long as it continues conditional, that is, between the time of lending the money and the time allotted for payment, the mortgagee is called tenant in mortgage.
Strana 398 - To kill a child in its mother's womb is now no murder, but a great misprision : but if the child be born alive and dieth by reason of the potion or bruises it received in the womb, it seems by the better opinion to be murder in such as administered or gave them.
Strana 315 - ... within six months previous to the donor's death), and unless such gift be made to take effect immediately, and be without power of revocation: and that all other ¡gifts shall be void...