Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Том 15,Део 1Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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... produce any thing , but was in the fame ftate with other rofe - trees left in the ground . This branch is four lines in diameter , and i8 inches high .. 7 ] PLA " The rofe - tree on the outside was in the fame ftate ; Plant but one of ...
... produce any thing , but was in the fame ftate with other rofe - trees left in the ground . This branch is four lines in diameter , and i8 inches high .. 7 ] PLA " The rofe - tree on the outside was in the fame ftate ; Plant but one of ...
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... produce more than a million of its own fpecies ; what numbers then must have been pro- duced by a plant whofe feeds are fo numerous as many of those with which we are acquainted ? See NATURAL Hiftory , fect . iii . p . 654 , & c . In ...
... produce more than a million of its own fpecies ; what numbers then must have been pro- duced by a plant whofe feeds are fo numerous as many of those with which we are acquainted ? See NATURAL Hiftory , fect . iii . p . 654 , & c . In ...
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... produce any effect ( fays he ) upon an animal organ as the impact of external bodies , heat and cold , the vapour of burning fulphur , of volatile alkali , want of air , & c . are found to act alfo upon the plants called fenfuive . But ...
... produce any effect ( fays he ) upon an animal organ as the impact of external bodies , heat and cold , the vapour of burning fulphur , of volatile alkali , want of air , & c . are found to act alfo upon the plants called fenfuive . But ...
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... produce contractions in the fibres of this plant may perhaps lead fome philofophers to refer them to the vis infita , or irritability , which they affign to certain parts of organized matter , totally diftinct from , and independent of ...
... produce contractions in the fibres of this plant may perhaps lead fome philofophers to refer them to the vis infita , or irritability , which they affign to certain parts of organized matter , totally diftinct from , and independent of ...
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... tion of time allowed for the cultivation of it ; but be- caufe fuch allotment cannot in long droughts produce enough for his comfortable support , it is the incumbent duty fhip . their own apparent intereft , which cannot be 11 ...
... tion of time allowed for the cultivation of it ; but be- caufe fuch allotment cannot in long droughts produce enough for his comfortable support , it is the incumbent duty fhip . their own apparent intereft , which cannot be 11 ...
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