The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 4Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - 684 pages |
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... give vigour and freshness both to the soil and to its produce . We shall divide this subject into two dis- tinct heads , viz . simple , and compound ir- rigation ; observing that the former may be practical in various modes separately ...
... give vigour and freshness both to the soil and to its produce . We shall divide this subject into two dis- tinct heads , viz . simple , and compound ir- rigation ; observing that the former may be practical in various modes separately ...
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... give the stream a second , or even a third , turn through the land , than to allow all the water , necessary to moisten six or seven successive levels , to pass through the first . A reference to fig . 9 , will give some idea of this ...
... give the stream a second , or even a third , turn through the land , than to allow all the water , necessary to moisten six or seven successive levels , to pass through the first . A reference to fig . 9 , will give some idea of this ...
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... give the special matter in evidence ; and if he recover , he shall have double costs . Such action shall not be laid but in the county where the fact was committed . And no suit shall be commenced against a justice of the peace till ...
... give the special matter in evidence ; and if he recover , he shall have double costs . Such action shall not be laid but in the county where the fact was committed . And no suit shall be commenced against a justice of the peace till ...
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... give some little ac- count , taken from the fifth volume of the American Philosophical Transactions . The leaves of this shrub are feasted upon by the deer and the round horned elk , but are mortally poisonous to sheep , to horned cat ...
... give some little ac- count , taken from the fifth volume of the American Philosophical Transactions . The leaves of this shrub are feasted upon by the deer and the round horned elk , but are mortally poisonous to sheep , to horned cat ...
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... give them away ; the Papal see , however , thought otherwise , and a fresh bull arrived , demanding them for the knights of the order of St. John of Jerusa- lem in England ; as the same causes existed for compliance with this new ...
... give them away ; the Papal see , however , thought otherwise , and a fresh bull arrived , demanding them for the knights of the order of St. John of Jerusa- lem in England ; as the same causes existed for compliance with this new ...
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