Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Volumen 6,Parte 1Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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... be found again , and continued . When a fufficient quantity of earth or fand is drawn forth , they wash it two or three times , to feparate the ftones there . from . Diamond . from . The miners work quite naked , DIA DIA [ ] 2.
... be found again , and continued . When a fufficient quantity of earth or fand is drawn forth , they wash it two or three times , to feparate the ftones there . from . Diamond . from . The miners work quite naked , DIA DIA [ ] 2.
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... continued under the dominion of the Affyrians , Babylonians , Medes , Perfians , and Romans . It re- ceived indeed the light of the gospel foon after our Saviour's afcenfion , from St Thaddeus , who is faid to have been fent thither by ...
... continued under the dominion of the Affyrians , Babylonians , Medes , Perfians , and Romans . It re- ceived indeed the light of the gospel foon after our Saviour's afcenfion , from St Thaddeus , who is faid to have been fent thither by ...
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... continued in his appointments under James . II . After the abdication of his unfortunate mafter , being then in years , and afflicted with the flone , he retired from practice , and died in 1707. He published many other things ...
... continued in his appointments under James . II . After the abdication of his unfortunate mafter , being then in years , and afflicted with the flone , he retired from practice , and died in 1707. He published many other things ...
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... continued to the claws . On each fide of the body is a broad flap or membrane ( as in the flying fquir- rels ) , which is united to both the fore and hind legs . The jaws are furnished with teeth , placed as in fome others of this genus ...
... continued to the claws . On each fide of the body is a broad flap or membrane ( as in the flying fquir- rels ) , which is united to both the fore and hind legs . The jaws are furnished with teeth , placed as in fome others of this genus ...
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... continued without interruption to the time of the late king William , who used the motto Je main tien- dray , though the former was ftill retained upon the great feal . After him queen Anne ufed the motto Semper eadem , which had been ...
... continued without interruption to the time of the late king William , who used the motto Je main tien- dray , though the former was ftill retained upon the great feal . After him queen Anne ufed the motto Semper eadem , which had been ...
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Página 72 - ... will answer at the dreadful day of judgment when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed, that if either of you know any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in Matrimony, ye do now confess it. For be ye well assured, that so many as are coupled together otherwise than God's Word doth allow are not joined together by God; neither is their Matrimony lawful.
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Página 66 - Being asked how he was able so readily to find the cup that had been thrown in, he replied, that it happened to be flung by the waves into the cavity of a rock, against which he himself was urged in his descent.
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Página 68 - ... their descent ; and to let it out again when they were drawn up full from below. And to a hole in the uppermost part of these barrels, I fixed a leathern trunk or hose well liquored with bees...
Página 65 - ... but, upon its approach, it was known to be Nicholas, whom they took into their ship. When they asked him whither he was going in so stormy and rough a sea, and at such a distance from land, he...
Página 248 - ... in the body of this earth, is to consolidate the sediment collected at the bottom of the sea, and to form thereof a mass of permanent land above the level of the ocean, for the purpose of maintaining plants and animals. The power appointed for this purpose is, as on all other...