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W. Strahan; T, Cadell, 1776
 

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Сторінка 32 - With this time-keeper his son made two voyages, the one to Jamaica, and the other to Barbadoes ; in both which experiments it corrected the longitude within the nearest limits required by the act of parliament ; and the inventor at different times, though not without infinite trouble, received the proposed reward of £20,000.
Сторінка 21 - It may be observable too, that my muse and my spouse were equally prolific ; that the one was seldom the mother of a child, but in the same year the other made me the father of a play. I think we had a dozen of each sort between us ; of both which kinds some died in their infancy, and- near an equal number of each were alive when I quitted the theatre.
Сторінка 6 - Ralph the historian, in one of his pamphlets, says " Poor Amhurst, after having been the drudge of his party for the best part of twenty years together, was as much forgotten in the famous compromise of 1742, as if he had never been born ! and when he died of what is called a broken heart, which happened...
Сторінка 32 - London with the drawings of a machine for determining the longitude at sea, in expectation of being enabled to execute one by the board of longitude. Upon application to Dr Halley, he referred him to Mr George Graham ; who, discovering he had uncommon ^merit, advised him to make his machine before he applied to the board of longitude. He returned home to perform this task ; and in 1735 came...
Сторінка 32 - Pleas, that as he continued in a clofe friendfhip with them while he lived, fo he left them at his death two of his four executors. It was this acquaintance that firft fet Mr. Hale on a more enlarged purfuit of learning, which he had before confined to his own profeffion ; but becoming as great a mafter in it as ever any was, very foon, he, who could never let any of his time go away...
Сторінка 32 - do you mend it : tell him I bade you, and I know he will not be angry.
Сторінка 21 - Bullialdus had given up as insolvable ; viz. to determine geometrically the apogee and eccentricity of a planet from its true and mean place. In 1653...
Сторінка 32 - V. who had a particular regard for him, and took him with him in his military expeditions, where he became as renowned for his courage as for his poetry. He accompanied that emperor into Germany, Africa, and Provence ; and it was in this...
Сторінка 22 - ... arts in a high degree, and was thought worthy to fill the chair in the famous divinity school at Alexandria. He was the author of a great number of works ; but all we have now remaining are, a Latin translation of a book upon the Holy Spirit, in the works of St.
Сторінка 32 - Bibles being at that time very badly printed, Mr. Guy engaged with others in a scheme for printing them in Holland, and importing them; but, this being put a stop to...

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