Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Zväzok 2,Časť 1Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Strana 18
... animals refembling them in shape . ANGUINUM ovuм , a fabulous kind of egg , faid to be produced by the faliva of a cluster of ferpents , and poffeffed of certain magical virtues . The fuper- ftition in refpect to these was very ...
... animals refembling them in shape . ANGUINUM ovuм , a fabulous kind of egg , faid to be produced by the faliva of a cluster of ferpents , and poffeffed of certain magical virtues . The fuper- ftition in refpect to these was very ...
Strana 19
... animal , much compressed or flatted , and variegated with black and white ; the scales are roundifh , fmall , not imbricated , but they cannot be numbered . 14. The laticauda , a native of Surinam : the tail is compreffed , acute , pale ...
... animal , much compressed or flatted , and variegated with black and white ; the scales are roundifh , fmall , not imbricated , but they cannot be numbered . 14. The laticauda , a native of Surinam : the tail is compreffed , acute , pale ...
Strana 20
... animals . See SOUL . ANIMA , among chemifts , denotes the volatile or fpirituous parts of bodies . ANIMA Hepatis , is a name by which fome call fal martis or falt of iron , on account of its fuppofed ef- ficacy in difeafes of the liver ...
... animals . See SOUL . ANIMA , among chemifts , denotes the volatile or fpirituous parts of bodies . ANIMA Hepatis , is a name by which fome call fal martis or falt of iron , on account of its fuppofed ef- ficacy in difeafes of the liver ...
Strana 21
... animal and vegetable kingdoms feem to be fo effentially feparted , that we cannot even imagine the leaft approximation of the one to the other . Thofe naturalifts , indeed , who have fuppofed the diftinction between animals and ...
... animal and vegetable kingdoms feem to be fo effentially feparted , that we cannot even imagine the leaft approximation of the one to the other . Thofe naturalifts , indeed , who have fuppofed the diftinction between animals and ...
Strana 22
... animal and vegetable kingdoms , denies fenfa- tion to be any effential diftinction . " Senfation ( fays he ) more effentially distinguishes animals from vege- tables : but fenfation is a complex idea , and requires fome explication ...
... animal and vegetable kingdoms , denies fenfa- tion to be any effential diftinction . " Senfation ( fays he ) more effentially distinguishes animals from vege- tables : but fenfation is a complex idea , and requires fome explication ...
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