The Universal Preceptor: Being a General Grammar of Arts, Sciences, and Useful Knowledge ...J. M'Gowan for Sir R. Phillips, 1820 - 364 страница |
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... of material , do not hold mois ture , or are too shallow . They are fertile , when they contain a due mixture of several primitive earths with vegetable and animal matter 30. To render a barren soil fertile , it ought 8 AGRICULTURE .
... of material , do not hold mois ture , or are too shallow . They are fertile , when they contain a due mixture of several primitive earths with vegetable and animal matter 30. To render a barren soil fertile , it ought 8 AGRICULTURE .
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... contain metal : they are , apparently , the roughest , coarsest , and least desirable stones , or earths ; but , on being broken , repeatedly washed , and burnt , ( or , reasted , as ibis called , ) they yield Gold , Silver , Copper ...
... contain metal : they are , apparently , the roughest , coarsest , and least desirable stones , or earths ; but , on being broken , repeatedly washed , and burnt , ( or , reasted , as ibis called , ) they yield Gold , Silver , Copper ...
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... containing 1,000 men , with their provisions , drink , furniture , apparel , and other neces aries for many months , besides 100 pieces of heavy ord- nance , and bearing all this vast apparatus safely to. 64 ART OF WAR Minh ...
... containing 1,000 men , with their provisions , drink , furniture , apparel , and other neces aries for many months , besides 100 pieces of heavy ord- nance , and bearing all this vast apparatus safely to. 64 ART OF WAR Minh ...
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... contain 360 equal parts or des grees ; consequently , half a circle , or half the heavens , is 180 degrees , and a fourth 90 degrees . On the surface of the Earth , each degree is 694 miles but the actual size of a degree , as cars ried ...
... contain 360 equal parts or des grees ; consequently , half a circle , or half the heavens , is 180 degrees , and a fourth 90 degrees . On the surface of the Earth , each degree is 694 miles but the actual size of a degree , as cars ried ...
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... contain nine kinds of words , or parts of speech , named as above ; and the science of grammar merely supplies general rules for their arrangement and govern- ment . 393. The classification of all words into nine kinds , enables ...
... contain nine kinds of words , or parts of speech , named as above ; and the science of grammar merely supplies general rules for their arrangement and govern- ment . 393. The classification of all words into nine kinds , enables ...
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