The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Частина 1,Том 21Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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... remains . Dryden's translation of Virgil is noble and spi- rited . Id . Id . The king's party , called the cavaliers , began to recover their spirits . Swift . с Many officers and private men spirit up and assist those SPI SPI 17.
... remains . Dryden's translation of Virgil is noble and spi- rited . Id . Id . The king's party , called the cavaliers , began to recover their spirits . Swift . с Many officers and private men spirit up and assist those SPI SPI 17.
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... remains below the horizon for about four months in the year , it is seldom very dark during that season ; for the brightness of the moon , which sometimes shines for nearly fourteen days together , the resplen- dent brilliancy of the ...
... remains below the horizon for about four months in the year , it is seldom very dark during that season ; for the brightness of the moon , which sometimes shines for nearly fourteen days together , the resplen- dent brilliancy of the ...
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... remains a problem , towards the elucidation of which the investigations of so many anatomists and phy- siologists have hitherto afforded very imperfect data . Haller admonishes his reader that he is plunging into the region of mere ...
... remains a problem , towards the elucidation of which the investigations of so many anatomists and phy- siologists have hitherto afforded very imperfect data . Haller admonishes his reader that he is plunging into the region of mere ...
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... Remains . They assigned them names from some remarkabis qualities , that are very observable in their red and splendent planets . Browne's Vulgar Errours . Their condition , though it look splendidly , yet , when you handle it on all ...
... Remains . They assigned them names from some remarkabis qualities , that are very observable in their red and splendent planets . Browne's Vulgar Errours . Their condition , though it look splendidly , yet , when you handle it on all ...
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... remains of fish being ever discovered in the stomachs of numbers that were cut up , except some green stuff , the half digested parts of algae , and the like . Linnæus says they feed on meduse . At certain times they are seen sporting ...
... remains of fish being ever discovered in the stomachs of numbers that were cut up , except some green stuff , the half digested parts of algae , and the like . Linnæus says they feed on meduse . At certain times they are seen sporting ...
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Сторінка 342 - Religion agreed upon by the Archbishops and Bishops of both provinces, and the whole Clergy in the Convocation holden at London, in the year of our Lord...
Сторінка 284 - O could I flow like thee ! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ; Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.
Сторінка 79 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same...
Сторінка 13 - Per substantiam intelligo id, quod in se est et per se concipitur; hoc est id, cujus conceptus non indiget conceptu alterius rei, a quo formari debeat.
Сторінка 320 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Сторінка 116 - An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosopher calleth it, infra spheeram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder, if the vessels be strong enough ; for I have taken a piece of a whole cannon, whereof the end was burst, and filled it...
Сторінка 343 - Now Jove suspends his golden scales in air, Weighs the men's wits against the lady's hair: The doubtful beam long nods from side to side; At length the wits mount up, the hairs subside. See fierce Belinda on the baron flies, With more than usual lightning in her eyes: Nor fear'd the chief th' unequal fight to try, Who sought no more than on his foe to die.
Сторінка 9 - But whether thus these things, or whether not; Whether the sun, predominant in heaven, Rise on the earth ; or earth rise on the sun • He from the east his flaming road begin; Or she from west her silent course advance, With inoffensive pace that spinning sleeps On her soft axle, while she paces even, And bears thee soft with the smooth air along; Solicit not thy thoughts with matters hid; Leave them to God above.
Сторінка 144 - I use two steam vessels in which the steam is to act, and which in other steam engines are called cylinders. Secondly, — I employ the steam after it has acted in the first vessel to operate a second time in the other, by permitting it to expand itself, which I do by connecting the vessels together and forming proper channels and apertures, whereby the steam shall, occasionally, go in and out of the said vessels.
Сторінка 224 - ... that upon the trial of any peer or peeress either for treason or misprision all the peers who have a right to sit and vote in Parliament...