Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts, المجلد 16،العدد 136 -المجلد 18،العدد 160William Chambers, Robert Chambers William and Robert Chambers, 1847 |
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... person's son , Thomas Watt , was but an infant at the time of his father's death . Left almost destitute by that event , he was taken care of by relations till he grew up , when , manifesting a decided taste for mathematical science ...
... person's son , Thomas Watt , was but an infant at the time of his father's death . Left almost destitute by that event , he was taken care of by relations till he grew up , when , manifesting a decided taste for mathematical science ...
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... persons in the neighbourhood , filling for several years the office of baron bailie , or chief magistrate of the burgh of Crawford's Dike . He died in 1734 , at the advanced age of ninety - two years , and was buried in the West ...
... persons in the neighbourhood , filling for several years the office of baron bailie , or chief magistrate of the burgh of Crawford's Dike . He died in 1734 , at the advanced age of ninety - two years , and was buried in the West ...
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... persons in the kingdom could have understood a page of it . In the year 1763 Mr Watt married his cousin Miss Miller , who is described as a person of much wit and accomplishment , with great sweetness of temper . At the same time he ...
... persons in the kingdom could have understood a page of it . In the year 1763 Mr Watt married his cousin Miss Miller , who is described as a person of much wit and accomplishment , with great sweetness of temper . At the same time he ...
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... persons who , about this time , are said to have conceived the use of steam for mechanical purposes , it may be stated that the process of discovery was taken up exactly at the point where Hero left it by Solomon de Caus , a Frenchman 8 ...
... persons who , about this time , are said to have conceived the use of steam for mechanical purposes , it may be stated that the process of discovery was taken up exactly at the point where Hero left it by Solomon de Caus , a Frenchman 8 ...
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... person whose work it was to keep incessantly turning the stopcocks ( V and R ) ; the first for the admission of steam from the boiler , the second for the admission of the cold water for the condensation of the steam . The whole action ...
... person whose work it was to keep incessantly turning the stopcocks ( V and R ) ; the first for the admission of steam from the boiler , the second for the admission of the cold water for the condensation of the steam . The whole action ...
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الصفحة 9 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
الصفحة 28 - And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies ; A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle.
الصفحة 11 - THE glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on Kings: Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
الصفحة 15 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
الصفحة 20 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial, endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me?
الصفحة 6 - The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
الصفحة 27 - Of those fierce darts Despair at me doth throw. 0 make in me those civil wars to cease: 1 will good tribute pay, if thou do so. Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed, A chamber deaf to noise and blind to light, A rosy garland and a weary head: And if these things, as being thine by right, Move not thy heavy grace, thou shalt in me, Livelier than elsewhere, Stella's image see.
الصفحة 9 - Come, let us go while we are in our prime; And take the harmless folly of the time. We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the sun...