Encyclopædia Britannica: or, A dictionary of arts and sciences, compiled by a society of gentlemen in Scotland [ed. by W. Smellie]. Suppl. to the 3rd. ed., by G. Gleig, Том 12 |
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... more particularly , as an experiment might be made at a little expence , and without injury to the boats . " The life - boat is kept in a boat - houfe , and placed upon Life - Boat . upon four low wheels , ready LIF [ 7 ] LIF.
... more particularly , as an experiment might be made at a little expence , and without injury to the boats . " The life - boat is kept in a boat - houfe , and placed upon Life - Boat . upon four low wheels , ready LIF [ 7 ] LIF.
Сторінка 8
... experiment was made in the port of Leith under the fuperintendance of Mr Bremner himself , and in prefence of a committee of the directors of the fociety . This experiment proved fatis- factory to the committee , whofe favourable report ...
... experiment was made in the port of Leith under the fuperintendance of Mr Bremner himself , and in prefence of a committee of the directors of the fociety . This experiment proved fatis- factory to the committee , whofe favourable report ...
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... experiment was tried only with cafks , with but a fmall quantity of cork , as before stated , yet it is generally believed , and and Mr Bremner himself is of the fame opinion , that it might answer equally well , and perhaps better , to ...
... experiment was tried only with cafks , with but a fmall quantity of cork , as before stated , yet it is generally believed , and and Mr Bremner himself is of the fame opinion , that it might answer equally well , and perhaps better , to ...
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... experiments were made in October 1667 . This philofopher attended to a great variety of cir- cumftances relating to this curious phenomenon . A- A- mong other things he obferved , that change of air was not neceffary to the maintenance ...
... experiments were made in October 1667 . This philofopher attended to a great variety of cir- cumftances relating to this curious phenomenon . A- A- mong other things he obferved , that change of air was not neceffary to the maintenance ...
Сторінка 11
... experiments to M. Reaumur , and the Bolognian academicians , espe- .cially Beccarius , who took fo much pains with the fubject of phofphoreal light . M. Reaumur obferves , that , whereas other fishes give light when they tend to ...
... experiments to M. Reaumur , and the Bolognian academicians , espe- .cially Beccarius , who took fo much pains with the fubject of phofphoreal light . M. Reaumur obferves , that , whereas other fishes give light when they tend to ...
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Сторінка 233 - A body of nobility is also more peculiarly necessary in our mixed and compounded constitution, in order to support the rights of both the crown and the people, by forming a barrier to withstand the encroachments of both.
Сторінка 269 - I am lawfully called," said he, " to appear in that city, and thither will I go in the name of the Lord, though as many devils as there are tiles on the houses were there combined against me.
Сторінка 290 - Her speech was the melodious voice of Love, Her song the warbling of the vernal grove ; Her eloquence was sweeter than her song, Soft as her heart, and as her...
Сторінка 233 - ... to be precarious. The nobility, therefore, are the pillars, which are reared from among the people, more immediately to support the throne; and, if that falls, they must also be buried under its ruins.
Сторінка 152 - ... as there are a great many other ways by which heat might have been communicated to it. And if we cannot argue from the removal of the antecedent to the removal of the consequent, no more can we from the admission of the consequent to the admis.
Сторінка 72 - The logarithm of the root of a number is found by dividing the logarithm of the number by the index of the root.
Сторінка 327 - These being of different standing and proficiency, he was obliged to divide them into four or five classes, in each of which he employed a full hour every day, from the first of Nov. to the first of June. In the first class he taught the first six books of " Euclid's Elements," plain trigonometry, practical geometry, the elements of fortification, and an introduction to algebra.
Сторінка 14 - ... it, for fome minutes, globules of light as large as the heads of pins. When he prefled thefe globules, they appeared to his touch like a foft and thin pulp ; and fome days after the fea was covered near the coafts with whole banks of thefe little iifh.
Сторінка 191 - The Golden Orb or Globe, put into the king's right hand before he is crowned, and borne in his left, with the sceptre in his right, upon his return into Westminster-hall after he is crowned.
Сторінка 410 - I could walk with, till this soul, like a ray of light, entered into me, and my tongue began to speak, my eye to see, and my foot to walk ; therefore punish it eternally, but deliver me.