Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, المجلد 18John Brown, 1816 |
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... occafion to employ air greatly exceeding the com- mon density , we may infert the experiments made by Gen. Roy on fuch airs . They are expreffed in the following table ; where column first con- tains the denfities meatured by the inches ...
... occafion to employ air greatly exceeding the com- mon density , we may infert the experiments made by Gen. Roy on fuch airs . They are expreffed in the following table ; where column first con- tains the denfities meatured by the inches ...
الصفحة 10
... occafion to employ air greatly exceeding the com- mon density , we may infert the experiments made by Gen. Roy on fuch airs . They are expreffed in the following table ; where column firft con- tains the denfities meatured by the inches ...
... occafion to employ air greatly exceeding the com- mon density , we may infert the experiments made by Gen. Roy on fuch airs . They are expreffed in the following table ; where column firft con- tains the denfities meatured by the inches ...
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... occafion . Mr Robins did both . The method which he took for measuring the velocity of a musket - ball , was quite original : and it was fufceptible of great accuracy . ( See PROJECTILES . ) Having gained this point , the other was not ...
... occafion . Mr Robins did both . The method which he took for measuring the velocity of a musket - ball , was quite original : and it was fufceptible of great accuracy . ( See PROJECTILES . ) Having gained this point , the other was not ...
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... occafion a fcantiness water in our fountains and wells . This is e roneously accounted for , by fuppofing that th water freezes in the bowels of the earth . B the moft intense frost of a Siberian winter wou not freeze the ground two ...
... occafion a fcantiness water in our fountains and wells . This is e roneously accounted for , by fuppofing that th water freezes in the bowels of the earth . B the moft intense frost of a Siberian winter wou not freeze the ground two ...
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... occafion here to fuck , but we must do it a little . Dogs and fome other animals cannot drink , but only lap the water into their mouths with their tongue , and then fwallow it . The gallinaceous birds drink very imperfectly ; they ...
... occafion here to fuck , but we must do it a little . Dogs and fome other animals cannot drink , but only lap the water into their mouths with their tongue , and then fwallow it . The gallinaceous birds drink very imperfectly ; they ...
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الصفحة 258 - GOD from all eternity did by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass : yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures, nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.
الصفحة 44 - The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heav'n to earth, from earth to heav'n; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
الصفحة 274 - And secondly, it means that the prerogative of the crown extends not to do any injury: it is created for the benefit of the people, and therefore cannot be exerted to their prejudice.
الصفحة 259 - Christ unto everlasting glory, out of his mere free grace and love, without any foresight of faith or good works, or perseverance in either of them, or any other thing in the creature, as conditions or causes moving him thereunto, and all to the praise of his glorious grace.
الصفحة 236 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. Duch. Alas ! poor Richard ! where rides he the while ? York. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...
الصفحة 276 - What is done by the royal authority, with regard to foreign powers, is the act of the whole nation; what is done without the king's concurrence, is the act only of private men.
الصفحة 98 - Pollute with sinful blame, The saintly veil of maiden white to throw; Confounded, that her Maker's eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities.
الصفحة 223 - He was perfumed like a milliner, And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose and took't away again; Who therewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in snuff...
الصفحة 222 - But poverty, though it does not prevent the generation, is extremely unfavourable to the rearing of children. The tender plant is produced, but in so cold a soil, and so severe a climate, soon withers and dies. It is not uncommon, I have been frequently told, in the Highlands of Scotland for a mother who has borne twenty children not to have two alive.
الصفحة 277 - England it hath always been holden, that the king is lord of the whole shore, and particularly is the guardian of the ports and havens, which are the inlets and gates of the realm; and therefore, so early as the reign of King John, we find ships seized by the king's officers for putting in at a place that was not a legal port.