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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... sides these , there are at Constantinople six viziers , cailed viziers of the bench ( i . e . of the council of state ) , because they have seats in the divan . Men acquainted with the laws , and such as have already held offices of ...
... sides these , there are at Constantinople six viziers , cailed viziers of the bench ( i . e . of the council of state ) , because they have seats in the divan . Men acquainted with the laws , and such as have already held offices of ...
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... side , the voice becomes weaker , and if cut on both sides , ceases entirely . The positive pole of the galvanic battery affecting the nerve produces high , the negative pole deep , hoarse tones . Liscovius , in his The- ory of the ...
... side , the voice becomes weaker , and if cut on both sides , ceases entirely . The positive pole of the galvanic battery affecting the nerve produces high , the negative pole deep , hoarse tones . Liscovius , in his The- ory of the ...
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... sides the lungs , the windpipe , & c . , the finely - arched roof of the mouth , and the pliability of the lips ( enabling us to give a great variety of forms to the mouth , which are almost the sole means of giving their peculiar ...
... sides the lungs , the windpipe , & c . , the finely - arched roof of the mouth , and the pliability of the lips ( enabling us to give a great variety of forms to the mouth , which are almost the sole means of giving their peculiar ...
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... side direction in Mexico , and is prolonged in a great plateau , between the eighteenth and twenty - second degrees of north latitude . The plateau in question owes its present form to the circumstance of an ancient system of valleys ...
... side direction in Mexico , and is prolonged in a great plateau , between the eighteenth and twenty - second degrees of north latitude . The plateau in question owes its present form to the circumstance of an ancient system of valleys ...
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... side of this line of greatest commotion , there are parallel bands of country where the shocks are less violent . At a still greater distance , as in Northern Italy , there are spaces where the shocks are much rarer and more feeble ...
... side of this line of greatest commotion , there are parallel bands of country where the shocks are less violent . At a still greater distance , as in Northern Italy , there are spaces where the shocks are much rarer and more feeble ...
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