The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Band 6Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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... piece of pasture ground , and four inches in another . But , in some of the streets of that city , the frost had descended even below two feet , so as to begin to affect the water- pipes . The greater density and solidity of the ...
... piece of pasture ground , and four inches in another . But , in some of the streets of that city , the frost had descended even below two feet , so as to begin to affect the water- pipes . The greater density and solidity of the ...
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... piece of iron bent down to fasten planks . Such as they are I hope they will prove , without a clinch , luciferous ; searching after the nature of light . Boyle . Pure clinches the suburbian muse affords , And Panton waging harmless war ...
... piece of iron bent down to fasten planks . Such as they are I hope they will prove , without a clinch , luciferous ; searching after the nature of light . Boyle . Pure clinches the suburbian muse affords , And Panton waging harmless war ...
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... piece is to go eight days , we will make the fusee to revolve in twelve hours , which construction will require the great wheel on its arbor to be 8 + 12 , or 96 , because the pinion of 8 revolves with the minute - hand on its ...
... piece is to go eight days , we will make the fusee to revolve in twelve hours , which construction will require the great wheel on its arbor to be 8 + 12 , or 96 , because the pinion of 8 revolves with the minute - hand on its ...
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... piece of steel as the arms of the frame , it is difficult to preserve their shape cor- rectly in hardening , and to retain the acting part of the pallet perfectly hard . To obviate this difficulty , the pallet has sometimes been made a ...
... piece of steel as the arms of the frame , it is difficult to preserve their shape cor- rectly in hardening , and to retain the acting part of the pallet perfectly hard . To obviate this difficulty , the pallet has sometimes been made a ...
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... piece of strong watch - spring , which has not been coiled up ; the upper part has two cylindrical buttons rivetted to it , opposite to each other , one of these appears at Z ; these bear the weight of the pendulum during the time of ...
... piece of strong watch - spring , which has not been coiled up ; the upper part has two cylindrical buttons rivetted to it , opposite to each other , one of these appears at Z ; these bear the weight of the pendulum during the time of ...
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Seite 253 - Forgive a moiety of the principal Glancing an eye of pity on his losses. That have of late so huddled on his back ; Enough to press a royal merchant down. And pluck commiseration of his state From brassy bosoms, and rough hearts of flint, From stubborn Turks, and Tartars, never trained To offices of gentle courtesy.
Seite 285 - Thy morning bounties ere I left my home. The biscuit, or confectionary plum ; The fragrant waters on my cheeks bestowed By thy own hand, till fresh they shone and glowed ; All this, and, more endearing still than all, Thy constant flow of love, that knew no fall.
Seite 324 - And I saw, and beheld a white horse ; and he that sat on him had a bow ; and a crown was given unto him : and he went forth conquering and to conquer. Rev. vi. 2.
Seite 284 - I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau If birds confabulate or no ; Tis clear that they were always able To hold discourse at least in fable. And even the child, who knows no better Than to interpret by the letter A story of a cock and bull, Must have a most uncommon skull.
Seite 37 - Behold the picture ! Is it like t Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip. And then skip down again. Pronounce a text. Cry hem, and reading, what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene. Cowper.
Seite 290 - But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim» Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies.
Seite 247 - Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity, and place, and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all. Our Maker bids increase : who bids abstain But our destroyer, foe to God and man
Seite 286 - Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man; and therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory ; if he
Seite 190 - many and very great restrictions. Such colonists carry with them only so much of the English law as is applicable to their own situation, and the condition of an infant colony : such for instance, as the general rules for inheritance, and of protection from personal injuries. The artificial refinements and distinctions incident to the property of a
Seite 125 - in the various separations and new associations and motions of these permanent particles : compound bodies being apt to break, not in the midst of solid particles, but where these particles are laid together, and touch in a few points. It seems farther, that these particles have not only a vis