The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Parte 1,Volume 21Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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... person's taste , they politely pass it over without notice , and commend other dishes , that they may not distress a kind frast Translation . CONDITIONS OF PUBLICATION : 1. This work will be completed in Forty - four Parts , or half ...
... person's taste , they politely pass it over without notice , and commend other dishes , that they may not distress a kind frast Translation . CONDITIONS OF PUBLICATION : 1. This work will be completed in Forty - four Parts , or half ...
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... person's taste , they politely pass it over without notice , and commend other dishes , that they may not distress a kind frost Translation . CONDITIONS OF PUBLICATION : 1. This work will be completed in Forty - four Parts , or half ...
... person's taste , they politely pass it over without notice , and commend other dishes , that they may not distress a kind frost Translation . CONDITIONS OF PUBLICATION : 1. This work will be completed in Forty - four Parts , or half ...
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... persons who really ex- isted , and not to the imaginary gods and god- desses of the Greeks . Moses , while he informs us ... person . But to descend to our own times we do not know , except perhaps the steam - engine , any mechanical ...
... persons who really ex- isted , and not to the imaginary gods and god- desses of the Greeks . Moses , while he informs us ... person . But to descend to our own times we do not know , except perhaps the steam - engine , any mechanical ...
Pagina 12
... person who works the machine , may be perpendicular , or nearly so , over the tops of the spindles , the inner side having pieces of wood or metal fixed or nailed thereto , leaving only small spaces or notches between each for the yarn ...
... person who works the machine , may be perpendicular , or nearly so , over the tops of the spindles , the inner side having pieces of wood or metal fixed or nailed thereto , leaving only small spaces or notches between each for the yarn ...
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... person ; the very same childish objection since repeated by Thomas Paine , whose ignorance may somewhat excuse him , but Spinoza surely could read the Commentaries of Cæsar , in the original , who speaks of himself modestly in the third ...
... person ; the very same childish objection since repeated by Thomas Paine , whose ignorance may somewhat excuse him , but Spinoza surely could read the Commentaries of Cæsar , in the original , who speaks of himself modestly in the third ...
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Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 79 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...