10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FECULENCY»
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feculency in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
The Philosophical Transactions ... Abridged ...
... I found the Water to be clear and limpid j tho' I did not judge it had deposited so
much as the Tenth Part of a Grain of Feculency. And having opened the Seal,
and taken out a little of the Liquor, I did not find it alter'd either as to Smell or
Taste.
Royal Society (Great Britain), John Lowthorp, Henry Jones,
1722
2
A Review of the Reports to the Board of Agriculture from the ...
The quantity deposited (in a given time) must, neces~ $arily, be as the quantit
suspended ; and this, as the degree of feculency and epth of the water when
brought into a stagnant state. The degree of feculency may epend,—on the state
of the ...
William MARSHALL (Agricultural Writer.),
1811
3
The Works ... to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author. A ...
lour also vanished; the clear liquor being of a bright amber colour, at the bottom
of which subsided a light, but copious feculency of almost the same colour, which
seems to be nothing but the tincted parts of the rose-leaves drawn out by the ...
4
Philosophical Transactions, Giving Some Account of the ...
As may be argued from hence, that having purposely in the gentle Fire of a
digestive Furnace, slowly dislill'd oss a Pound of the Patentccs Water, it lest us in
the Cucurbit so light and thin a Feculency, that the bottom of the Glass seemed to
be ...
5
The Code of Health and Longevity: Or, a Concise View, of the ...
... (for so I may call it) being diffused by agitation through this abominably stinking
water, (which did not appear turbid to the eye), in so very small a proportion,
precipitated out of it a very little and* light feculency, which being separated, the
rest ...
6
The Philosophical Transactions and Collections, to the End ...
... whereof I left, by guess, about a 3d part empty, and having about 6 Weeks after
, held this Veflelagainst the Light, I found the Water to be clear and limpid ; tho' I
did not judge it had deposited so much as the tenth part of a Grain of Feculency.
Royal Society (Great Britain), John Lowthorp, Henry Jones,
1716
The quantity deposited (in a given time) must, necessarily, be as the quantity
suspended ; and this, as the degree of feculency and depth of the water when
brought into a stagnant state. The degree of feculency may depend,— pn the
state of ...
Mr. Marshall (William),
1818
8
The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle: In Six Volumes. To ...
flour also vanished; the clear liquor bein of a bright amber colour, at the bottom =
of which subsided a light, but copious Feculency of almost the same colour,
which seems to be nothing but the tincted parts of the rose-leaves drawn out by
the ...
Robert Boyle, Thomas Birch,
1772
9
Archaeologia: Or, Miscellaneous Tracts, Relating to Antiquity..
Johnson tells us, that the English dross is feculency, and feculency is again
interpreted a sediment, or a falling down of any impurity to the bottom of the vesicl
. This seems to me to be the proper derivation of the word dross ; if you know a
better ...
10
A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry ...
... ('as the end and scope of the ne- inpyiUt farious ceremonies those wicked
wretches, he describes, often used) sMpivw. were coloured according to the
more or less feculency of the Vehicle of the Damon that did appear in this manner
, viz,, ...
Henry More, René Descartes,
1712