American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ; Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volumen 11Mitchell, Ames and White, 1821 |
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... extremely rapacious and devouring , and not unfrequently prey upon each other . Those are most esteemed which are found in the coldest streams , and they are generally regard- ed as an elegant and luxurious article of food . They appear ...
... extremely rapacious and devouring , and not unfrequently prey upon each other . Those are most esteemed which are found in the coldest streams , and they are generally regard- ed as an elegant and luxurious article of food . They appear ...
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... extremely rapid . For if the motion of light were infinite , or came to us in an instant , it is evident that we should see the commencement of an eclipse of a satellite at the same moment , at whatever distance we might be from it ...
... extremely rapid . For if the motion of light were infinite , or came to us in an instant , it is evident that we should see the commencement of an eclipse of a satellite at the same moment , at whatever distance we might be from it ...
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... extremely ac- tive and nimble , climbing trees with great rapidity , and bounding from one to another with a spring truly astonishing . Some are supplied with membranes , which enable them to extend this leap into something ...
... extremely ac- tive and nimble , climbing trees with great rapidity , and bounding from one to another with a spring truly astonishing . Some are supplied with membranes , which enable them to extend this leap into something ...
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... extremely dis- tant from each other , presents such a sur- face to the air beneath , as gives it consi- derable buoyancy , and converts its elastic bounds into a species of flight . The mem . brane is also highly serviceable in che ...
... extremely dis- tant from each other , presents such a sur- face to the air beneath , as gives it consi- derable buoyancy , and converts its elastic bounds into a species of flight . The mem . brane is also highly serviceable in che ...
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... extremely probable that every essay at imitating animated objects was in each nation made in wood originally , and it is vain to sup- pose the tools were any other at first than the sharp edges of broken stones or flints ; a visit to ...
... extremely probable that every essay at imitating animated objects was in each nation made in wood originally , and it is vain to sup- pose the tools were any other at first than the sharp edges of broken stones or flints ; a visit to ...
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