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, Volum 12Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth Desilver, Thomas, & Company, 1836 |
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Pàgina 2
... kind of divina- tion , in use even among the Romans . Verses from the Sibylline Books ( q . v . ) were written on small slips of paper , which were shaken in a vessel , and one of them was drawn out , in order to discover some ...
... kind of divina- tion , in use even among the Romans . Verses from the Sibylline Books ( q . v . ) were written on small slips of paper , which were shaken in a vessel , and one of them was drawn out , in order to discover some ...
Pàgina 4
... kind is merely to produce a close imitation of nature . A higher kind com- bines objects so as to form an interesting whole ; and the highest employs the ob- jects only to express a poetical idea , as in representing the room of a ...
... kind is merely to produce a close imitation of nature . A higher kind com- bines objects so as to form an interesting whole ; and the highest employs the ob- jects only to express a poetical idea , as in representing the room of a ...
Pàgina 11
... kind of coarse sand , called gravel , which sinks immediately to the bottom of the vessel in which the urine is left . Sometimes they are real stones , of the size of a pea , of a walnut , or even of the fist . They are found either ...
... kind of coarse sand , called gravel , which sinks immediately to the bottom of the vessel in which the urine is left . Sometimes they are real stones , of the size of a pea , of a walnut , or even of the fist . They are found either ...
Pàgina 11
... kind best adapted to communicate heat . It should be entirely enclosed in a detached brick chamber , the wall of which should be double , that it may be a better non - conductor of heat . The space be- tween the brick chamber and stove ...
... kind best adapted to communicate heat . It should be entirely enclosed in a detached brick chamber , the wall of which should be double , that it may be a better non - conductor of heat . The space be- tween the brick chamber and stove ...
Pàgina 16
... , 5 parts of chlorate of potash , and 4 parts of sulphu- ret of antimony . No other kind of mixture than rubbing together on a paper is required , are sometimes terminated by dihedral summits , and also have 26 STRONG - STRONTITES .
... , 5 parts of chlorate of potash , and 4 parts of sulphu- ret of antimony . No other kind of mixture than rubbing together on a paper is required , are sometimes terminated by dihedral summits , and also have 26 STRONG - STRONTITES .
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