Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, a New Edition; 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 Lea & Blanchard, 1851 |
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... known ; but the mode in which this effect takes place is not ex- plained . This influence is observable even in birds , which delight us with their amorous melodies at the season of pair ing ; in woman , whose voice acquires its ...
... known ; but the mode in which this effect takes place is not ex- plained . This influence is observable even in birds , which delight us with their amorous melodies at the season of pair ing ; in woman , whose voice acquires its ...
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... known ; but the province is so subject to earthquakes , that scarcely a week passes without a shock ; and many of these have been so violent as to create great changes of the surface . Farther north , we find , in the middle of Quito ...
... known ; but the province is so subject to earthquakes , that scarcely a week passes without a shock ; and many of these have been so violent as to create great changes of the surface . Farther north , we find , in the middle of Quito ...
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... known . The southern boundaries of the region include the most northern parts of Africa , and part of the desert of Arabia . We may trace , through the whole of the area comprehended within these extensive limits , numerous points of ...
... known . The southern boundaries of the region include the most northern parts of Africa , and part of the desert of Arabia . We may trace , through the whole of the area comprehended within these extensive limits , numerous points of ...
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... known on the globe , and calculate that , one with another , they are about equal in activity to the burning mountains in other districts , we may then compute that there happen on the earth about 2000 eruptions in the course of a ...
... known on the globe , and calculate that , one with another , they are about equal in activity to the burning mountains in other districts , we may then compute that there happen on the earth about 2000 eruptions in the course of a ...
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... known treatise which had gained the prize of the academy of Dijon . Voltaire returned him an answer which , among many flattering remarks , contained the following sentence : " When I read your treatise , I desire to creep upon all ...
... known treatise which had gained the prize of the academy of Dijon . Voltaire returned him an answer which , among many flattering remarks , contained the following sentence : " When I read your treatise , I desire to creep upon all ...
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