Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Enlarged and ImprovedA. Constable, 1824 |
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... less diminished , and towards the horizon must even be increased . In the oppo- site hemisphere , again , the mass of the earth is more drawn to the moon than the waters of that hemisphere , and their relative tendencies are changed in ...
... less diminished , and towards the horizon must even be increased . In the oppo- site hemisphere , again , the mass of the earth is more drawn to the moon than the waters of that hemisphere , and their relative tendencies are changed in ...
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... less abstruse nature , and more immediately con- nected with experiment , which , for a time , resisted the progress of the Newtonian phi- losophy , though they contributed , in the end , very materially to its advancement . Nothing ...
... less abstruse nature , and more immediately con- nected with experiment , which , for a time , resisted the progress of the Newtonian phi- losophy , though they contributed , in the end , very materially to its advancement . Nothing ...
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... less the characteristic of the two phi losophers , we have named , than a wide range of know- ledge , from which they collected the facts , and great ingenuity in combining and applying them . Dr Dar- win was the most remarkable , both ...
... less the characteristic of the two phi losophers , we have named , than a wide range of know- ledge , from which they collected the facts , and great ingenuity in combining and applying them . Dr Dar- win was the most remarkable , both ...
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... less malignant upon the intellectual , than upon the moral , part of the human mind . The physiolo- gists account for its influence in this manner . They say , that the signs , by which the living energy is ma- nifested , may be ...
... less malignant upon the intellectual , than upon the moral , part of the human mind . The physiolo- gists account for its influence in this manner . They say , that the signs , by which the living energy is ma- nifested , may be ...
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... less of misery , when happiness might be given in its stead . This has been seized , and made use of as an objection ... less valuable , less , in regard to that very labour for which he is valuable at all , if he is forced upon it too ...
... less of misery , when happiness might be given in its stead . This has been seized , and made use of as an objection ... less valuable , less , in regard to that very labour for which he is valuable at all , if he is forced upon it too ...
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Seite 32 - Towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, cocoa was largely and successfully cultivated, but in 1725 a blight fell upon the plantations.
Seite 272 - And the United States hereby renounce forever, any liberty heretofore enjoyed or claimed by the inhabitants thereof, to take, dry, or cure fish on, or within three marine miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks, or harbours of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America...
Seite 272 - Newfoundland hereabove described, and of the coast of Labrador ; but so soon as the same, or any portion thereof shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such portion so settled, without previous agreement for such purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors, or possessors of the ground.
Seite 15 - Besides this, there is another connexion of ideas wholly owing to chance or custom : ideas that in themselves are not at all of kin, come to be so united in some men's minds that it is very hard to separate them ; they always keep in company, and the one no sooner at any time comes into the understanding, but its associate appears with it; and if they are more than two which are thus united, the whole gang, always inseparable, show themselves together.
Seite 83 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.
Seite 64 - ... the squares of the periodic times are as the cubes of the distances from the common centre, the centripetal forces will be inversely as the squares of the distances.
Seite 255 - The British Society for extending the Fisheries and improving the Sea Coasts of the Kingdom...
Seite 163 - The Natural History of the Rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia, collected from the Observations of John Abbot, with the Plants on which they Feed.
Seite 364 - His superiority was never felt, but in the instruction which he imparted, or in the attention which his generous preference usually directed to the more obscure members of the company. The simplicity of his manners was far from excluding that perfect urbanity and amenity which flowed still more from the mildness of his nature, than from familiar intercourse with the most polished society of Europe.
Seite 280 - It is about a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth, but contracts at both ends.