Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics, and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations-lexicon, Volume 13Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth Desilver, Thomas, & Company, 1835 |
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... given to the tone . The influence of the nerves of the voice is also to be remarked : if the nerve is cut on one side , the voice becomes weaker , and if cut on both sides , ceases entirely . The positive pole of the galvanic battery ...
... given to the tone . The influence of the nerves of the voice is also to be remarked : if the nerve is cut on one side , the voice becomes weaker , and if cut on both sides , ceases entirely . The positive pole of the galvanic battery ...
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... given to the tone . The influence of the nerves of the voice is also to be remarked : if the nerve is cut on one side , the voice becomes weaker , and if cut on both sides , ceases entirely . The positive pole of the galvanic battery ...
... given to the tone . The influence of the nerves of the voice is also to be remarked : if the nerve is cut on one side , the voice becomes weaker , and if cut on both sides , ceases entirely . The positive pole of the galvanic battery ...
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... given above , there are other disconnected volcanic groups , of which the geograph- ical extent is , as yet , imperfectly known . Among these may be mentioned Iceland , which belongs , perhaps , to the same re- gion as the volcano in ...
... given above , there are other disconnected volcanic groups , of which the geograph- ical extent is , as yet , imperfectly known . Among these may be mentioned Iceland , which belongs , perhaps , to the same re- gion as the volcano in ...
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... given us , in his Let- ters , a lively description of the awful scene . A dense column of vapor was first seen rising vertically from Vesuvius , and then spreading itself out laterally , so that its upper portion resembled the head ...
... given us , in his Let- ters , a lively description of the awful scene . A dense column of vapor was first seen rising vertically from Vesuvius , and then spreading itself out laterally , so that its upper portion resembled the head ...
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... given up in the monastic vows , being the highest good of man , no equivalent can be found for it , and therefore the pope cannot dis- pense from or commute these vows . ( For the monastic vows , see Monastic Vows , Monasteries , and ...
... given up in the monastic vows , being the highest good of man , no equivalent can be found for it , and therefore the pope cannot dis- pense from or commute these vows . ( For the monastic vows , see Monastic Vows , Monasteries , and ...
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