A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature and Practical Mechanics: Comprising a Popular View of the Present State of Knowledge : Illustrated by Numerous Engravings, a General Atlas, and Appropriate Diagrams, Volum 5Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 |
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Pàgina 5
... never to be suffered to leave the village in which the king resided . They have some singular practices in the in- terment of their dead . The bodies of their chil- dren are deposited in ant - hills , which have been excavated by the ...
... never to be suffered to leave the village in which the king resided . They have some singular practices in the in- terment of their dead . The bodies of their chil- dren are deposited in ant - hills , which have been excavated by the ...
Pàgina 10
... never arisen . But Cairo is still described as a large city , equal in extent to Paris . It is of a crescent form , more than nine miles in circumference ; and seen from the Nile , from which it is about a mile distant , it presents a ...
... never arisen . But Cairo is still described as a large city , equal in extent to Paris . It is of a crescent form , more than nine miles in circumference ; and seen from the Nile , from which it is about a mile distant , it presents a ...
Pàgina 34
... never cohabit with their husbands , which it is said would be esteemed a profanation ; but live in the houses of their mothers and brothers , at the expense of the husband , and adopting other men for their companions . No man thus ...
... never cohabit with their husbands , which it is said would be esteemed a profanation ; but live in the houses of their mothers and brothers , at the expense of the husband , and adopting other men for their companions . No man thus ...
Pàgina 43
... never broken . It is not always in the power of surgeons to restrain or command its growth ; for sometimes a broken bone , for want of due action in its vessels , will remain several months disunited ; and , at other times , the callus ...
... never broken . It is not always in the power of surgeons to restrain or command its growth ; for sometimes a broken bone , for want of due action in its vessels , will remain several months disunited ; and , at other times , the callus ...
Pàgina 44
... never so great on the Ocean as on the Mediterranean , as the flux and reflux of the former keep the water in a continual agita- tion , even where there is no wind ; whereas there being no tides in the latter , the calm is sometimes so ...
... never so great on the Ocean as on the Mediterranean , as the flux and reflux of the former keep the water in a continual agita- tion , even where there is no wind ; whereas there being no tides in the latter , the calm is sometimes so ...
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