A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature and Practical Mechanics: Comprising a Popular View of the Present State of Knowledge : Illustrated by Numerous Engravings, a General Atlas, and Appropriate Diagrams, المجلد 8Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 |
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... length the long expected event arrived . On Wednesday , 10th May , 1752 , between two and three P. M. Coissier heard a pretty loud clap of thunder . Immediately he ran to the machine , taking with him a phial furnished with a brass wire ...
... length the long expected event arrived . On Wednesday , 10th May , 1752 , between two and three P. M. Coissier heard a pretty loud clap of thunder . Immediately he ran to the machine , taking with him a phial furnished with a brass wire ...
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... length . The plates are made of French glass , as this is found to pro- duce the greatest quantity of the electricity next to English flint , which could not be produced of suffic ent size . The conductor is divided into branches which ...
... length . The plates are made of French glass , as this is found to pro- duce the greatest quantity of the electricity next to English flint , which could not be produced of suffic ent size . The conductor is divided into branches which ...
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... length , may be observed flying off from the lower edge of the silk into the surrounding air . The machine is now fit for use , and may be fastened to the table , after which the whole of its parts are to be well wiped with a warm and ...
... length , may be observed flying off from the lower edge of the silk into the surrounding air . The machine is now fit for use , and may be fastened to the table , after which the whole of its parts are to be well wiped with a warm and ...
الصفحة 27
... of the principal . ( 1 ) . Fix at the end of the prime conductor a knobbed rod , and hang on it two small pith- balls , suspended by threads of equal length . The balls will now touch one another , the threads hanging ELECTRICITY . 27.
... of the principal . ( 1 ) . Fix at the end of the prime conductor a knobbed rod , and hang on it two small pith- balls , suspended by threads of equal length . The balls will now touch one another , the threads hanging ELECTRICITY . 27.
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... length of the two longer is seven inches , and that of the two shorter is five inches . From the longer to the shorter pillars are stretched two fine brass wires , parallel to each other , and tightened by screws which pass through the ...
... length of the two longer is seven inches , and that of the two shorter is five inches . From the longer to the shorter pillars are stretched two fine brass wires , parallel to each other , and tightened by screws which pass through the ...
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الصفحة 180 - Christ was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it, And what that word did make it, That I believe and take it.
الصفحة 218 - Are they not his by a peculiar right, And by an emphasis of interest his, Whose eye they fill with tears of holy joy, Whose heart with praise, and whose exalted mind With worthy thoughts of that unwearied love That plann'd, and built, and still upholds a world So clothed with beauty for rebellious man...
الصفحة 205 - We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
الصفحة 430 - Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown : He raised a mortal to the skies: She drew an angel down.
الصفحة 398 - Fathers, being agreeable to the propriety of the place, and the analogy of faith. — 5. The division of the chapters to be altered either not at all, or as little as may be, if necessity so require it. — 6. No marginal notes at all to be affixed, but only for the explanation of the Hebrew or Greek words, which cannot, without some circumlocution, so briefly and fitly be expressed in the text.
الصفحة 398 - ... reasons; to which if they consent not, the difference to be compounded at the general meeting, which is to be of the chief persons of each company at the end of the work.
الصفحة 188 - And on that cheek, and o'er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent THE HARP THE MONARCH MINSTREL SWEPT.
الصفحة 8 - And be it further enacted, that no person in holy orders in the chnrch of Rome shall be capable of being elected to serve in parliament as a member of the house of commons...
الصفحة 398 - Bible: Tindale's, Matthew's, Coverdale's, Whitchurch's, Geneva. 15. Besides the said directors before mentioned, three or four of the most ancient and grave divines in either of the universities, not employed in translating, to be assigned by the Vice-Chancellor upon conference with the rest of the Heads to be overseers of the translations, as well Hebrew as Greek, for the better observation of the fourth rule above specified.
الصفحة 213 - I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly...