P Liv 1764
Liv. 1764, P. Afth Essays Are Erroneously Attributed, In Dr Maty's" Index, To His Brother, Dr Thomas Heberden Of Madeira, Who Sent Several Other Papers To The Society. Dr Hellorden Was One Of The Principal Contributors To The First Three Volumes Of The Medical Transactions, Published In A Great Measure ...
Preparation
Preparation. Alimentary Matters Are Used Either In Their Crude Or Raw State, Or After Having Undergone Some Kind Of Preparation. Fruits And Salads, Although They Admit Of Various Forms Of Cookery, Are Most Frequently Eaten In As Fresh And Natural A State As Possible. Cookery Is Either Necessary To Destroy ...
Preservation
Preservation. As The Supply Of Food Is Always Subject To Ireegu. Larities, The Preservation Of The Excess Obtained At One Time To Meet The Deficiency Of Another Would Soon Engage The Attention Of Mankind. At First This Method Would Be Simple And Natural, And De Rived From A Very Limited ...
Prussia
Prussia. Prussia Is The Smallest In Extent, And Enjoys The Fewest Natural Advantages Of All The European States Of The First Class. Her Territory Is Not Much More Than Two-fifths Of That Of Austria; It Is But Indifferently Fertile; Has Few Valuable Mines; Few Resources For Manufactures; She Has, However, ...
Relations 166
Relations. 166. Two Ovals, With A Semicircle And An Arm, Very Clearly Signify In Order That. The Ovals Seem To Mean To Or For, And The Arm Action Or Doing; As Our Own That Seems To Be Allied To The German That, Which Means Deed. The Same Combination Of Characters ...
Revenue And Expenditure
Revenue And Expenditure. Though England Is At Present So Much More Heavily Taxed Than France, The Case, In Former Ages, Was Very Different. The Want Of A Representative Body In That Country Led To The Pernicious Practice Of Farming The Taxes, And Of Permitting The Contractors (traitans) To Make Many ...
Roads Bridges
Roads ; Bridges. In This Important Point France Is Considerably In Ferior To England, Her Long Tract Of Coast, Opposite To The Atlantic And The Bay Of Biscay, Being Indif Ferently Provided With Sea-ports, And Those On The Southern Shore Of The Channel, Forming A Striking Contrast To The Spacious ...
Russia
Russia. Russia Occupies Very Nearly One-half Of The Sur Face Of Europe, And Yet Her Territories In This Divi Sion Of The Globe Are Scarcely More Than One-fifth Of Her Whole Dominions. Three-fourths Of Her A Siatic Territories, However, Consist Of Sandy Deserts, Or Frozen Plains, Which Yield Very Little ...
S A Goddess
S. A Goddess Is Denoted By The Hatchet Or Sit Ting Figure, With The Addition Of The Female Charac Teristic, Generally As 4 Termination ; But Sometimes The Simple Character Is Applied To Gods And Goddesses Indifferently. The Semicircle And Oblique Oval, Dis Tinguishing The Feminine Gender, Are Observable In ...
Spain
Spain. The Vast Natural Resources Of This Country Present A Striking Contrast With Its Political Imbecility. It Is Nearly As Large As France, But Contains Little More Than A Third Of The Population, Though Its Fertile Soil And Delicious Climate Yield In Lundance The Produc Tions Both Of The Temperate ...
Specimens Of Phrases
Specimens Of Phrases. The Last Line Of The Inscription Of Rosetta Will Serve As A Specimen Of The Way In Which The Hiero Glyphical Characters Were Combined, So As To Form A Language; And Will Show At The Same Time The Rela Tion Between The Sacred And The Enchorial Texts. ...
Sweden
Sweden. Sweden Has Sunk In Her Relative Importance In Consequence Of The Rise Of Russia, But She Still Holds A Higher Place In The Scale Of Power Than Any Other European State With An Equal Population. Now That Norway Is United To Her Dominions, She Has The Best Military And.commercial ...
Tender
Tender Exoric Fruits.—notice May Here Be Taken Of One Or Two Tender Exotic Fruits, Which Have Of Late Years Been Cultivated In Our Hot. Houses. The Granadilla Vine (passiflora Quadrangula Ris) Is, In Some Places In England, Particularly At Harewood House, Treated As A Fruit Bearing Plant. The Fruit, Called ...
The New Geometry
The New Geometry. The Seventeenth Century, Which Had Advanced With Such Spirit And Success In Combating Prejudice, Detecting Error, And Establishing Truth, Was Destined To Conclude With The Most Splendid Series Of Philosophical Discoveries Yet Recorded In The History Of Letters. It Was About To Witness, In Succession, The Invention ...
The Return
The Return, For The Same Year, Of The Total Number Of Vessels Which Were Fitted Out In Scot Land, For The " Open Sea Fishery," Under The Re Gulations Of The 48th And 55th Geo. Iii., Is As Under : It Would Appear, Therefore, That All Which Is Now Wanting ...
Or Guyana Guiana
Guiana, Or Guyana, A Large .district Of South America, In Which The British, The Dutch, The French, The Portuguese, And The Spaniards, Have Considerable Settlements. It Is Situated Between Those Vast Rivers, The Orinoco And The Amazons, And By Means Of The Negro And The Cassiquiari, Which Unite Their Streams, ...
Or Helgoland Heligoland
Heligoland, Or Helgoland, A Group Of Small Islands In The North Sea, Belonging Formerly To Denmark, Now To Great Britain, And Situated About 28 Miles From The Mouths Of The Weser, The Elbe, And The Eyder. It Consists Of The Principal Island, Subdivided Into The Cliff And The Low Land ...
Or Himalaya Himaleh
Himaleh, Or Himalaya (literally The Seat Of Snow), Sometimes Himachal (snowy Mountains), Are The Names Given To A Vast Range Of Lofty Moun Tains Which Separates India From The Two Thibets, And Forms The Highest Part Of That Extended Chain, Which Was Known To The Ancient Writers Of Europe By ...
Or Integrals The Fluents
Fluents, Or Integrals. The Fluents Of Such Expressions, As Are The Most Likely To Occur In The Solution Of Physical Problems, May Be Very Conveniently Arranged In The Form Of A Table; The Principal Materials Of Which Will Be Extracted From Meier Hirsch's Integraltaldn. 4. Berlin, 1810. It Might Have ...