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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... iron , pits of coal , quarries of marble and ftone , and fome celebrated mineral waters , as those of Spa and Chau - fontaine . The principal rivers are , the Maes and Sambre . The manufactures and com- modities of the country are ...
... iron , pits of coal , quarries of marble and ftone , and fome celebrated mineral waters , as those of Spa and Chau - fontaine . The principal rivers are , the Maes and Sambre . The manufactures and com- modities of the country are ...
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... iron nor porce- lain . Hong - vou fupplied this want ; he caused a great number of utensils of iron and inftruments to be made , which he sent thither , together with a quantity of por- celain veffels . Commerce , navigation , and the ...
... iron nor porce- lain . Hong - vou fupplied this want ; he caused a great number of utensils of iron and inftruments to be made , which he sent thither , together with a quantity of por- celain veffels . Commerce , navigation , and the ...
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... iron pin . When the pole is ele- vated perpendicularly , the upper part of the axis be- comes depreffed , and a pair of rope flings , which go round the boat , being fixed to the iron pins , the is raised with the greatest facility , by ...
... iron pin . When the pole is ele- vated perpendicularly , the upper part of the axis be- comes depreffed , and a pair of rope flings , which go round the boat , being fixed to the iron pins , the is raised with the greatest facility , by ...
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... iron chains , a narrow space being left for access to the inhabitants . Coffee - houses were not known in Lima till the year 1771 , when one was opened in the street of Santo Do- mingo , and another the year following . A third was ...
... iron chains , a narrow space being left for access to the inhabitants . Coffee - houses were not known in Lima till the year 1771 , when one was opened in the street of Santo Do- mingo , and another the year following . A third was ...
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... iron - liquor is as follows : of a prefbytery . Here is carried on a confiderable trade Linlithgow , A quantity of iron is put into the four ftrong beer ; in drefling of white leather , which is fent abroad to be Linlithgow- and , to ...
... iron - liquor is as follows : of a prefbytery . Here is carried on a confiderable trade Linlithgow , A quantity of iron is put into the four ftrong beer ; in drefling of white leather , which is fent abroad to be Linlithgow- and , 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.