Arithmetical Questions on a New Plan: Intended to Answer the Double Purpose of Arithmetical Instruction and Miscellaneous Information ...author and proprietors, 1811 - 494 Seiten |
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... Earth , Mars , Jupiter , Saturn , the Georgium Sidus , Ceres , Pallas , and Vefta . The last four have been recently discovered . See Exercises on the Globes , 4th edition . Mercury is faid to be about 37,000,000 of miles from the fun ...
... Earth , Mars , Jupiter , Saturn , the Georgium Sidus , Ceres , Pallas , and Vefta . The last four have been recently discovered . See Exercises on the Globes , 4th edition . Mercury is faid to be about 37,000,000 of miles from the fun ...
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... earth ; for fome of them are heated , in every period , to fuch a degree as would vitrify or diffipate any fubftance known to us . Comets are always attended with long tranfparent trains , or tails , iffuing from that fide of them which ...
... earth ; for fome of them are heated , in every period , to fuch a degree as would vitrify or diffipate any fubftance known to us . Comets are always attended with long tranfparent trains , or tails , iffuing from that fide of them which ...
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... earth ; fo that , according to fome eminent philofophers , it may , in fome future revolutions , ap- proach near enough to have very confiderable , if not fatal effects upon it . See Exer . on the Globes , 4th edit . art . Comets . No ...
... earth ; fo that , according to fome eminent philofophers , it may , in fome future revolutions , ap- proach near enough to have very confiderable , if not fatal effects upon it . See Exer . on the Globes , 4th edit . art . Comets . No ...
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... earth at 2,200,000,000,000 of miles . They maintain that a found would not reach our earth from Sirius in 50,000 years ; and that a can- non - ball , flying with its ufual velocity , of 480 miles an hour , would confume 523,211 years in ...
... earth at 2,200,000,000,000 of miles . They maintain that a found would not reach our earth from Sirius in 50,000 years ; and that a can- non - ball , flying with its ufual velocity , of 480 miles an hour , would confume 523,211 years in ...
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... earth to be as well peopled as Great - Britain , and to have been fo from the creation , and that the whole race of mankind had conftantly fpent their time in telling a heap confifting of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 of pieces ...
... earth to be as well peopled as Great - Britain , and to have been fo from the creation , and that the whole race of mankind had conftantly fpent their time in telling a heap confifting of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 of pieces ...
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Seite 66 - For these reasons, there are not more useful members in a commonwealth than merchants ; they knit mankind together in a mutual intercourse of good offices, distribute the gifts of nature, find work for the poor, add wealth to the rich, and magnificence to the great.
Seite 130 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Seite 31 - This was the noblest Roman of them all: All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Seite 9 - Meantime, refracted from yon eastern cloud, Bestriding earth, the grand ethereal bow Shoots up immense; and every hue unfolds, In fair proportion, running from the red To where the violet fades into the sky.
Seite 350 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Seite 185 - He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation; but man over men He made not lord; such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free.