Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, Volume 22John Brown, 1816 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... whole number living top ther , to which fuch an annual addition would time grow . Thus , fince 19 , or the third of 571 the expectation of two joint lives , whofe comm age is 29 , 20 marriages every year between fons of this age would ...
... whole number living top ther , to which fuch an annual addition would time grow . Thus , fince 19 , or the third of 571 the expectation of two joint lives , whofe comm age is 29 , 20 marriages every year between fons of this age would ...
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... whole number of marriages ; or half of them ( the number of widows in particular ) equal to half the number of marriages . Now it appears that in moft towns the decrease in the probabili- ties of life is in fact nearly uniform ...
... whole number of marriages ; or half of them ( the number of widows in particular ) equal to half the number of marriages . Now it appears that in moft towns the decrease in the probabili- ties of life is in fact nearly uniform ...
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... whole company was fo lethargic , that he found it an eafy matter to catch a confiderable number of them , which he kept in a room all that day . By heating the room they all revived : he opened four of them , and found their stomachs ...
... whole company was fo lethargic , that he found it an eafy matter to catch a confiderable number of them , which he kept in a room all that day . By heating the room they all revived : he opened four of them , and found their stomachs ...
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... whole bushels of fwallows were found in a torpid condition . 4. The rev . Mr Conway of Sychton , Flintshire , a few years age , on looking down an old lead mine in that county , obferved numbers of fwallows clinging to the timbers of ...
... whole bushels of fwallows were found in a torpid condition . 4. The rev . Mr Conway of Sychton , Flintshire , a few years age , on looking down an old lead mine in that county , obferved numbers of fwallows clinging to the timbers of ...
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... whole country ; but being defeated with great lofs by young STENO STURE , then regent , he fet fail for Denmark . But meeting with contrary winds , he made several defcents on the Swedish coaft , which he ravaged with all the fury of an ...
... whole country ; but being defeated with great lofs by young STENO STURE , then regent , he fet fail for Denmark . But meeting with contrary winds , he made several defcents on the Swedish coaft , which he ravaged with all the fury of an ...
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Page 279 - And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field: upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Page 286 - Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Page 63 - The body continuing suspended as before, and upright, if the head be leaned quite back, so that the face looks upwards, all the back part of the head being then under water, and its weight consequently in a great measure supported by it, the face...
Page 271 - Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read : no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate : for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.
Page 71 - He has no children. All my pretty ones? Did you say all? O hell-kite! All? What, all my pretty chickens and their dam At one fell swoop?
Page 124 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale.
Page 63 - ... that you cannot but by active force get down to the egg. Thus you feel the power of the water to support you, and learn to confide in that power ; while your endeavours to overcome it, and...
Page 288 - God : but made himfelf of no reputation, and took upon him the form* of a fervant, and was made in the likenefs of men. And being found in fafhion as a man, he humbled himfelf, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the crofs.
Page 334 - And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.
Page 62 - ... taken together is too light to sink wholly under water, but some part will remain above, until the lungs become filled with water, which happens from drawing water into them instead of air, when a person in the fright attempts breathing while the mouth and nostrils are under water.