A New Review: With Literary Curiosities and Literary Intelligence, Volume 5author, 1784 |
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Page 16
... fecond experiment very frequently during two whole fummers , and he thinks himself intitled to fay , that as plants give no air in the night , except when the putrid leaves ferment , when indeed they give a very bad one , it cannot be ...
... fecond experiment very frequently during two whole fummers , and he thinks himself intitled to fay , that as plants give no air in the night , except when the putrid leaves ferment , when indeed they give a very bad one , it cannot be ...
Page 28
... fecond chapter he gives a concife hiftory of Cufic coins . He refers their origin to the time of Abdolmalek , the son of Mer- . van , who was appointed chalif in the year of the He- gira 65 ( of Chrift 684 ) , and who , according to the ...
... fecond chapter he gives a concife hiftory of Cufic coins . He refers their origin to the time of Abdolmalek , the son of Mer- . van , who was appointed chalif in the year of the He- gira 65 ( of Chrift 684 ) , and who , according to the ...
Page 62
... fecond it is like a very thin cloth , fomething refembling a cot- ton , which is as flight as a fpider's web . Some vegetables give a carcithus , which is compofed of an affemblage of threads which imitate fibrous roots ; others again ...
... fecond it is like a very thin cloth , fomething refembling a cot- ton , which is as flight as a fpider's web . Some vegetables give a carcithus , which is compofed of an affemblage of threads which imitate fibrous roots ; others again ...
Page 65
... fecond volume , was born at Toledo , in the year 1503 , of parents that were noble on both fides . Attached from his earliest youth to the court of the Emperor Charles the Fifth , he married Donna Elena di Zuniga , Lady to Elinor ...
... fecond volume , was born at Toledo , in the year 1503 , of parents that were noble on both fides . Attached from his earliest youth to the court of the Emperor Charles the Fifth , he married Donna Elena di Zuniga , Lady to Elinor ...
Page 96
... fecond time , he has here given us the anatomical defcription of the parts only , and promises that it fhall foon be followed by the physio- logy.- -The conclufions from the prefent effay are , that the ears of birds have several more ...
... fecond time , he has here given us the anatomical defcription of the parts only , and promises that it fhall foon be followed by the physio- logy.- -The conclufions from the prefent effay are , that the ears of birds have several more ...
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