Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, Volume 4David Patrick, William Geddie W. & R. Chambers, limited, 1924 |
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... colour quickly appears in spreading patches on an in- flamed and ulcerated base in the pharynx or back of the throat , and often extends down the phagus or gullet , one side usually being more affected than the other . There may be ...
... colour quickly appears in spreading patches on an in- flamed and ulcerated base in the pharynx or back of the throat , and often extends down the phagus or gullet , one side usually being more affected than the other . There may be ...
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... colour it for some hours ; and one grain of musk can scent , by its slow evaporation , the air of a room for years . Divisibility , in the Theory of Numbers , is that property of any number whereby it may be divided by another without ...
... colour it for some hours ; and one grain of musk can scent , by its slow evaporation , the air of a room for years . Divisibility , in the Theory of Numbers , is that property of any number whereby it may be divided by another without ...
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... colour varies greatly , consisting of very irregular patches of black , white , and yellow . It is partly diurnal , partly nocturnal . Large packs of these animals hunt together , and run with an untiring gallop which will overtake the ...
... colour varies greatly , consisting of very irregular patches of black , white , and yellow . It is partly diurnal , partly nocturnal . Large packs of these animals hunt together , and run with an untiring gallop which will overtake the ...
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... colour , with large , round , brown spots . The eggs are laid late in the year . The flesh is too coarse to be edible . The skin of both spotted dog - fishes is studded with tubercles of dentine capped with enamel , and when prepared is ...
... colour , with large , round , brown spots . The eggs are laid late in the year . The flesh is too coarse to be edible . The skin of both spotted dog - fishes is studded with tubercles of dentine capped with enamel , and when prepared is ...
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... colour usually white , but variously coloured kinds are not un- common , such as reddish , brown , green , gray , and black . It effervesces feebly with cold acid . The pure crystallised varieties are known as Pearl Spar . Those which ...
... colour usually white , but variously coloured kinds are not un- common , such as reddish , brown , green , gray , and black . It effervesces feebly with cold acid . The pure crystallised varieties are known as Pearl Spar . Those which ...
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Popular passages
Page 141 - Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state.
Page 22 - This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of performing, is owing to three different circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another ; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.
Page 327 - Alone in all history he estimated the greatness of man. One man was true to what is in you and me. He saw that God incarnates himself in man, and evermore goes forth anew to take possession of his World.
Page 327 - ... if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
Page 292 - The elephant is reckoned the slowest breeder of all known animals, and I have taken some pains to estimate its probable minimum rate of natural increase; it will be...
Page 310 - This is owing to you, for you put it into my head by the question you put to me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of.
Page 327 - There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding. The understanding caught this high chant from the poet's lips, and said, in the next age, "This was Jehovah come down out of heaven. I will kill you, if you say he was a man.
Page 299 - If I live five years longer, the positive result of my existence on the side of truth and goodness will outweigh the small negative good that would have consisted in my not doing anything to shock others, and I can conceive no consequences that will make me repent the past.
Page 180 - There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour.
Page 171 - It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organized creatures.