Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory, and N. Bosworth assisted by other gentlemen of eminence, Volume 101819 |
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... earth , & c . and dried in the shade for two years . These were formerly in great request among the Italian architects . QUADRENNIAL . a . ( quadrennium , La- tin . ) 1. Comprising four years . 2. Happening once in four years . QUA ...
... earth , & c . and dried in the shade for two years . These were formerly in great request among the Italian architects . QUADRENNIAL . a . ( quadrennium , La- tin . ) 1. Comprising four years . 2. Happening once in four years . QUA ...
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... earth's centre , or from a luminous or hot body , the weight or light or heat , is but a 4th part ; and at 3 times the distance , they . are 9 times less , or a 9th part , & c . QUALM.s . ( cpealin , Saxon . ) A sudden fit of sickness ...
... earth's centre , or from a luminous or hot body , the weight or light or heat , is but a 4th part ; and at 3 times the distance , they . are 9 times less , or a 9th part , & c . QUALM.s . ( cpealin , Saxon . ) A sudden fit of sickness ...
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... earth neither too strong and heavy nor too light and dry . In these beds place the acorns in rows one foot asunder , and about two inches distance in the rows , covering them about two inches thick with the same fresh earth , none being ...
... earth neither too strong and heavy nor too light and dry . In these beds place the acorns in rows one foot asunder , and about two inches distance in the rows , covering them about two inches thick with the same fresh earth , none being ...
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... earth , is at length carried up en high by a wind , and there thawing the snowy villi or tlocks of the half frozen vesiculæ , it re- dures them into drops ; which , coalescing , de- srend , and have their dissolution perfected in their ...
... earth , is at length carried up en high by a wind , and there thawing the snowy villi or tlocks of the half frozen vesiculæ , it re- dures them into drops ; which , coalescing , de- srend , and have their dissolution perfected in their ...
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... earth which abound with elec- tric fire , to those parts that are exhausted of it ; and by letting fall their rain , restore the equili- brium between them . Signior Beccaria also thought , that the electricity communicated to the air ...
... earth which abound with elec- tric fire , to those parts that are exhausted of it ; and by letting fall their rain , restore the equili- brium between them . Signior Beccaria also thought , that the electricity communicated to the air ...
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