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  • THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface

    to a single Person's Experience, and which might have employ'd an Academy. What adds to my Jealousy, is the little measure of Time allow'd for a Performance to which a Man's whole Life scarce seems equal. The bare Vocabulary of the Academy della Crusca...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Introduction

  • DECADAL ARITHMETIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/DECADAL%20ARITHMETIC

    of the Hands, which were made use of in Computations before Arithmetic was brought into an Art. The Eastern Missionaries assure us, that to this Day the Indians are very expert at computing on their Fingers, without any Use of Pen and Ink, Lat. Edif. &...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ACTORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/poetry/ACTOR

    stage. — This heightens the trouble, and distress that should reign there; and makes a diversity, in which the spectator is sure to be interested. Horace speaks of a kind of secondary Actors in his time, whose business was to imitate the first; and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Poetry

  • ARMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARM

    Bars and his Mouth. A Horse is said to arm himself with the Lips, when he covers the Bars with his Lips, and deadens the Pressure of the Bit.—This frequently happens in thick-lipped Horses— The Remedy is by using a Bit-mouth, forged with a Canon or...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ALKALYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALKALY

    and Alkaly should be inaccurate and superficial; since the Chemists themselves do not seem to have any determinate Notion of sure Marks, whereby to know them distinctly.—For, to infer, that, because a Body dissolves another, which is dissoluble by this...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Chymistry

  • ANTIMONYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ANTIMONY

    the dangerous Qualities of its Sulphur, published a Book, entitled Currus Triumphalis Antimonii, wherein he maintained it a sure Remedy for all Diseases—But, in spite of all he could say in its behalf, though confirmed by Experience, Antimony remained...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Natural History

  • DEFORMITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/ethics/DEFORMITY

    the Idea's of Beauty, and Harmony is justly reckon'd a Sense; From its Affinity to the other Senses, in this, that the Pleasure does not arise from any Knowledge of Principles, Proportions, Causes, Uses, &c. but strikes at first View; as also in this,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Ethics
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