An Epitome of the Arts and Sciences: Being a Comprehensive System of the Elementary Parts of an Useful and Polite Education : Adapted to the Use of Schools in the United StatesWilliam Duane, 1811 - 324 من الصفحات |
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... substance and form is expressed ; all matter , for example , is long , broad , and thick ; and has beside the properties of solidi- ty , divisibility , mobility , and inertness . 2. What is the explanation of solidity ? A. It is the ...
... substance and form is expressed ; all matter , for example , is long , broad , and thick ; and has beside the properties of solidi- ty , divisibility , mobility , and inertness . 2. What is the explanation of solidity ? A. It is the ...
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... substances , and discriminates their charac- ters ; chemistry , which by decomposing them , exhibits their elementary principles . OF THE ATMOSPHERE . Q. What is the atmosphere ? A. A transparent , invisible , and impalpableli- quid ...
... substances , and discriminates their charac- ters ; chemistry , which by decomposing them , exhibits their elementary principles . OF THE ATMOSPHERE . Q. What is the atmosphere ? A. A transparent , invisible , and impalpableli- quid ...
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... substance much used in dying . " OF NORTH AMERICA . Q. How is North America divided ? A. The greater portion belongs to the Ame- rican republic , or United States ; but some European nations have colonies , such as the British , who ...
... substance much used in dying . " OF NORTH AMERICA . Q. How is North America divided ? A. The greater portion belongs to the Ame- rican republic , or United States ; but some European nations have colonies , such as the British , who ...
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... substance , only by giving them the name . 2. Let us hear what they are ? A. In Asia there is a nation called Seiks , which are better entitled to the name of a repub- lican government , than most others . They are not a learned people ...
... substance , only by giving them the name . 2. Let us hear what they are ? A. In Asia there is a nation called Seiks , which are better entitled to the name of a repub- lican government , than most others . They are not a learned people ...
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... substances ; the air enters into the composition of all bodies , and exists in them under a solid form , in this state it is called fixed air ; it is figuratively described as the cement of all other bodies . As the air is a compound ...
... substances ; the air enters into the composition of all bodies , and exists in them under a solid form , in this state it is called fixed air ; it is figuratively described as the cement of all other bodies . As the air is a compound ...
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الصفحة ii - IDE, of the said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " Inductive Grammar, designed for beginners.
الصفحة 19 - Twas but a kindred sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War...
الصفحة 268 - To the top of the upright stick of the cross is to be fixed a very sharp-pointed wire, rising a foot or more above the wood. To the end of the twine, next the hand, is to be tied a silk ribbon, and where the silk and twine join, a key may be fastened.
الصفحة 268 - ... ribbon may not be wet ; and care must be taken that the twine does not touch the frame of the door or window. As soon as any of the thunderclouds come over the kite the pointed wire will draw the electric fire from them...
الصفحة 13 - This will cause the air at the equator to stand more than seven miles higher from the surface of the earth to the top of the atmosphere than at the north pole.
الصفحة 268 - This kite is to be raised when a thunder-gust appears to be coming on, and the person who holds the string must stand within a door or window, or under some cover so that the silk ribbon may not be wet, and care must be taken that the twine does not touch the frame of the door or window.
الصفحة 19 - And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell...
الصفحة 268 - As soon as any of the thunder clouds come over the kite, the pointed wire will draw the electric fire from them, and the kite, with all the twine, will be electrified, and the loose filaments of the twine will stand out every way, and be attracted by an approaching finger. And when the rain has wet the kite and twine, so that it can conduct the electric fire freely, you will find it stream out plentifully from the key on the approach of your knuckle.
الصفحة 47 - But look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill...
الصفحة 268 - Make a small cross of two light strips of cedar, the arms so long as to reach to the four corners of a large thin silk handkerchief when extended ; tie the corners of the handkerchief to the extremities of the cross, so you have the body of a kite ; which, being properly accommodated with a tail, loop, and string, will rise in the air, like those made of paper; but this being of silk is fitter to bear the wet and wind of a thundergust without tearing.