The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful Knowledge, المجلد 1Charles Knight, 1833 |
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... effect of the digitigrade formation is , in some degree , lessened by the peculiar structure of the fore legs , which , contrary to the general rule observable in most other animals , are consider- ably longer than the hind . In this ...
... effect of the digitigrade formation is , in some degree , lessened by the peculiar structure of the fore legs , which , contrary to the general rule observable in most other animals , are consider- ably longer than the hind . In this ...
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... effect on his auditors which scarcely any one since has been able to achieve on bowed instruments , and principally by means of his adagios , or slow movements . His com- positions , ' Dr. Burney tells us , were easy and elegantly ...
... effect on his auditors which scarcely any one since has been able to achieve on bowed instruments , and principally by means of his adagios , or slow movements . His com- positions , ' Dr. Burney tells us , were easy and elegantly ...
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... effect , and the reason of it , will be of the same kind as if light were supposed to have its real velocity . The star being at an immense distance , the rays which reach the spectator in different parts of the second may be called ...
... effect , and the reason of it , will be of the same kind as if light were supposed to have its real velocity . The star being at an immense distance , the rays which reach the spectator in different parts of the second may be called ...
الصفحة 39
... effect . Their arms are crossed on the breast ; in one hand they bear the key of the Nile , and in the other the scourge . These statues are entirely covered with a kind of stucco , which is richly painted with various colours . The ...
... effect . Their arms are crossed on the breast ; in one hand they bear the key of the Nile , and in the other the scourge . These statues are entirely covered with a kind of stucco , which is richly painted with various colours . The ...
الصفحة 44
... effects of absentee consumption , never maintained : if they had , they would have confounded the great distinction ... effect of habit ; but whether or no , there must be an ex- scarcely more felt than the example of any other wise and ...
... effects of absentee consumption , never maintained : if they had , they would have confounded the great distinction ... effect of habit ; but whether or no , there must be an ex- scarcely more felt than the example of any other wise and ...
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الصفحة 49 - In a right triangle the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides or legs.
الصفحة 194 - Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another. And if any man hunger, let him eat at home ; that ye come not together unto condemnation.
الصفحة 194 - When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper : and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
الصفحة 170 - We are content with discord, we are content with alarms, we are content with blood, but we will never be content with a master."!
الصفحة 115 - Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
الصفحة 128 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
الصفحة 287 - An Act to amend an act passed in the first year of his present majesty, to permit the general sale of beer and cider by retail in England.
الصفحة 125 - One-third shall go to the widow of the intestate, and the residue in equal proportions to his children ; or if dead, to their representatives ; that is, their lineal descendants: if there are no children or legal representatives...
الصفحة 129 - ... or sacrifice, performed. A woman, however, it is added, may not adopt a child without having her husband's consent ; and there is even some doubt if she may with that. ' He,' concludes the law, ' who has no son, or grandson, or grandson's son, or brother's son, shall' (may ?) ' adopt a son ; and while he has one adopted son, he shall not adopt a second.
الصفحة 232 - ... man to tread on the surface of the earth, the eagle to soar in the expanse of the skies, and the monkey and squirrel to inhabit the trees: still these may change their relative situations without feeling much inconvenience: but the sloth is doomed to spend his whole life in the trees; and, what is more extraordinary, not upon the branches, like the squirrel and the monkey, but under them. He moves suspended from the branch, he rests suspended from it, and he sleeps suspended from it.