Encyclopędia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Volume 14, Part 1Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... vessel no profane perfon was allowed to pafs . We are told by fome , that it was placed in the Adytum , or inmost recefs of the temple ; others fay it was placed at the door , which indeed feems to be the moft likely opinion . It was ...
... vessel no profane perfon was allowed to pafs . We are told by fome , that it was placed in the Adytum , or inmost recefs of the temple ; others fay it was placed at the door , which indeed feems to be the moft likely opinion . It was ...
Page 230
... vessel , which he had met with on a lake belonging to one of his pleasure - houses , made fuch an impreffion on his mind , that he concei- ved the almost impracticable defign of forming a navy . His firft care was to get fome Hollanders ...
... vessel , which he had met with on a lake belonging to one of his pleasure - houses , made fuch an impreffion on his mind , that he concei- ved the almost impracticable defign of forming a navy . His firft care was to get fome Hollanders ...
Page 241
... vessel conftructed on purpose to receive it , and thus conveyed about the fame diftance by water to the spot where it now ftands . When land- ed at Petersburg , it was 42 feet long at the base , 36 at the top , 21 thick , and 17 high ...
... vessel conftructed on purpose to receive it , and thus conveyed about the fame diftance by water to the spot where it now ftands . When land- ed at Petersburg , it was 42 feet long at the base , 36 at the top , 21 thick , and 17 high ...
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... vessels obfervable in scurvies , & c . The craffamentum of human blood changes by putre- faction into a dark livid - coloured liquor ; a few drops of which tinge the ferum with a tawny hue , like the ichor of fores and dyfenteric fluxes ...
... vessels obfervable in scurvies , & c . The craffamentum of human blood changes by putre- faction into a dark livid - coloured liquor ; a few drops of which tinge the ferum with a tawny hue , like the ichor of fores and dyfenteric fluxes ...
Page 288
... vessel be not kept clofe fhut . Fixed air extinguishes flame , vegetable and animal life , and ought therefore to be cautiously managed : like other acids it changes the blue colours of vegetables to a red , and communicates an ...
... vessel be not kept clofe fhut . Fixed air extinguishes flame , vegetable and animal life , and ought therefore to be cautiously managed : like other acids it changes the blue colours of vegetables to a red , and communicates an ...
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