Analytical Review: Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan, Volume 28J. Johnson., 1799 Containing scientific abstracts of important and interesting works, published in English; a general account of such as are of less consequence, with short characters, notices, or reviews of valuable foreign books; criticisms on new pieces of music and works of art; and the literary intelligence of Europe, etc. |
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... colours , and fuch as turks never wear , with flippers of black leather , and muft paint his houfe black or dark brown . The leaft violation of thefe frivolous and difgufting regulations is punifhed with death and it is not at all ...
... colours , and fuch as turks never wear , with flippers of black leather , and muft paint his houfe black or dark brown . The leaft violation of thefe frivolous and difgufting regulations is punifhed with death and it is not at all ...
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... Colour . , with Ob- fervations . By Mr. John Dalton -It has long been known , that colours are not feen alike by every perfon , and in the inftance before us we have a very ftriking exception to the ordinary mode of diftinguithing them ...
... Colour . , with Ob- fervations . By Mr. John Dalton -It has long been known , that colours are not feen alike by every perfon , and in the inftance before us we have a very ftriking exception to the ordinary mode of diftinguithing them ...
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... colour by day , namely , light blue . This was an importane obfervation . At the fame time that it exhibited the effect of a tranfparent coloured medium in the modification of colours , it feemed to indicate the analogy of folar- light ...
... colour by day , namely , light blue . This was an importane obfervation . At the fame time that it exhibited the effect of a tranfparent coloured medium in the modification of colours , it feemed to indicate the analogy of folar- light ...
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... colour from their reflecting the rays of light of that colour more copioufly than thofe of the other colours ; the unreflected rays being abforbed by the bodies . Adopting this fact , we are infenfibly led to conclude , that the more ...
... colour from their reflecting the rays of light of that colour more copioufly than thofe of the other colours ; the unreflected rays being abforbed by the bodies . Adopting this fact , we are infenfibly led to conclude , that the more ...
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... cultivated in Malta , of a nankeen colour , which exceeds in fineness all other cotton , and is much fuperior even to that from the Antilles . ' " vife any perfon to make more of them than is vife 44 TRANSACTIONS OF SOCIETIES .
... cultivated in Malta , of a nankeen colour , which exceeds in fineness all other cotton , and is much fuperior even to that from the Antilles . ' " vife any perfon to make more of them than is vife 44 TRANSACTIONS OF SOCIETIES .
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