Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal dictionary of Knowledge. [With] Supp, Volumen2 |
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... muscles . And concerning thofe , from part to part , he wrote remarks in letters of an ugly form , which are written by the left hand , back- wards and not to be understood but by thofe who know the method of reading them ; for they are ...
... muscles . And concerning thofe , from part to part , he wrote remarks in letters of an ugly form , which are written by the left hand , back- wards and not to be understood but by thofe who know the method of reading them ; for they are ...
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... MUSCLES are males of red fibres of va- rious lengths . The middle portion of each mufcle is faid to be flethy . The extremities are cailed tendinous , and those glistening , tough , inelastic , in- fenfible fubftances illuing from them ...
... MUSCLES are males of red fibres of va- rious lengths . The middle portion of each mufcle is faid to be flethy . The extremities are cailed tendinous , and those glistening , tough , inelastic , in- fenfible fubftances illuing from them ...
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... muscles or ligaments arife or are inferted , are covered with a fine membrane , which upon the skull is called pericranium , but in all other parts periofleum . It ferves for the mufcles to flide eafy upon , and to prevent their being ...
... muscles or ligaments arife or are inferted , are covered with a fine membrane , which upon the skull is called pericranium , but in all other parts periofleum . It ferves for the mufcles to flide eafy upon , and to prevent their being ...
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... muscles , and fufficient space for lod- ging their bellies ; that there may be no danger of difturbing the functions of the contained vifcera of the pelvis , by the action of the internal , nor of the external being bruifed by the thigh ...
... muscles , and fufficient space for lod- ging their bellies ; that there may be no danger of difturbing the functions of the contained vifcera of the pelvis , by the action of the internal , nor of the external being bruifed by the thigh ...
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... muscles that are inferted into its upper and external parts . Between the great trochanter and the neck of this bone , is a large finus , into which muscles are inferted ; and between the two trochanters is a remarkable roughness ...
... muscles that are inferted into its upper and external parts . Between the great trochanter and the neck of this bone , is a large finus , into which muscles are inferted ; and between the two trochanters is a remarkable roughness ...
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Página 242 - ... in a bed of water. In order, however, to be more certain, we sent in a Levantine mariner, who, by the promise of a good reward, ventured, with a flambeau in his hand, into this narrow aperture.
Página 377 - I think, The fall of every Phrygian stone will cost A drop of Grecian blood : The end crowns all ; And that old common arbitrator, time, Will one day end it.
Página 125 - Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the region round about Jordan, And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
Página 231 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Página 242 - ... to our view. We quickly perceived, that what the ignorant natives had been terrified at as a giant was nothing more than a sparry...
Página 242 - Our candles being now all lighted up, and the whole place completely illuminated, never could the eye be presented with a more glittering, or a more magnificent scene. The whole roof hung with solid icicles, transparent as glass, yet solid as marble.
Página 242 - They struck us with the more amazement, as we knew them to be mere productions of nature, who, hitherto in solitude, had, in her playful moments, dressed the scene, as if for her own amusement.
Página 307 - ... practised surgery, and could breathe a vein as well as mow a beard: such a staff being to this day, by every village practitioner, put into the hand of a patient undergoing the operation of phlebotomy. The white band, which encompasses the staff, was meant to represent the fillet thus elegantly twined about it." In confirmation of this opinion the reader may be referred to the cut of the barber's shop in Comenii Orbis Pictus, where the patient under phlebotomy is represented with a pole or staff...
Página 245 - Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad. When truth or virtue an affront endures, Th' affront is mine, my friend, and should be yours.
Página 330 - But, as he rode round the walls, pensive, angry and disappointed, he observed a stork, preparing to leave her nest in one of the towers and to fly with her infant family towards the country. He seized with the ready penetration of a statesman this trifling incident which chance had offered to superstition; and exclaimed in a loud and cheerful tone, that...