Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory, and N. Bosworth assisted by other gentlemen of eminence, Volume 71819 |
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... extremely ravenous , and generally seen hovering over stagnant waters ; the larves are six - footed , active inhabitants of the water , furnished with an articulate , forci- pated mouth ; and prey with the most rapacious ferocity upon ...
... extremely ravenous , and generally seen hovering over stagnant waters ; the larves are six - footed , active inhabitants of the water , furnished with an articulate , forci- pated mouth ; and prey with the most rapacious ferocity upon ...
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... extremely nucilaginous , and to the taste is bitter , and somewhat astringent . Its bitterness , as well as the purgative quality which it manifests , in its recent state , are in a great measure dissi- pated on drying , or may be ...
... extremely nucilaginous , and to the taste is bitter , and somewhat astringent . Its bitterness , as well as the purgative quality which it manifests , in its recent state , are in a great measure dissi- pated on drying , or may be ...
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... extremely dissimilar ; and it would , moreover , be very difficult , in the histories of the several persons above - mentioned , to find any circum- stance common to them all , except , perhaps , that of being born of healthy parents ...
... extremely dissimilar ; and it would , moreover , be very difficult , in the histories of the several persons above - mentioned , to find any circum- stance common to them all , except , perhaps , that of being born of healthy parents ...
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... extremely erroneous , unless it be subjected to the checks furnished by other theories . In 1742 another excellent mathematician , Mr. T. Simpson of the Woolwich Academy , in a curious little treatise " On the Doctrine of Annuities and ...
... extremely erroneous , unless it be subjected to the checks furnished by other theories . In 1742 another excellent mathematician , Mr. T. Simpson of the Woolwich Academy , in a curious little treatise " On the Doctrine of Annuities and ...
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... extremely doubtful . Lamp - lights are , on many accounts , prefer able to coal - fires or candles ; and the effect of these may be increased , by placing them either behind glass - hemispheres , or before properly disposed glass or ...
... extremely doubtful . Lamp - lights are , on many accounts , prefer able to coal - fires or candles ; and the effect of these may be increased , by placing them either behind glass - hemispheres , or before properly disposed glass or ...
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