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... various division of weights and measures . We hald need one abacus for pounds , shillings , and pence ; other for avoirdupois weight ; a third for troy weight , and on In China , however , where the whole system is decimal , that is ...
... various division of weights and measures . We hald need one abacus for pounds , shillings , and pence ; other for avoirdupois weight ; a third for troy weight , and on In China , however , where the whole system is decimal , that is ...
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... various races of people , of whose immigration into those regions we have no historical accounts . All the tribes , then , of North America may , for the present , be considered as aborigines . We can , indeed , since the discovery of ...
... various races of people , of whose immigration into those regions we have no historical accounts . All the tribes , then , of North America may , for the present , be considered as aborigines . We can , indeed , since the discovery of ...
الصفحة 48
... various diseases . When the mass of the fluids and solids of the body is too abundant , abstinence is capable of reduc- ing them to almost any extent that can be required ; and if the abstinence be judiciously commenced and conducted ...
... various diseases . When the mass of the fluids and solids of the body is too abundant , abstinence is capable of reduc- ing them to almost any extent that can be required ; and if the abstinence be judiciously commenced and conducted ...
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... various dishes were always plentiful on the table : the people always fasted till sunset . A feast fol- lowed this severe and protracted fast , in which they all seemed anxious to make up for lost time , by over - eating and drinking ...
... various dishes were always plentiful on the table : the people always fasted till sunset . A feast fol- lowed this severe and protracted fast , in which they all seemed anxious to make up for lost time , by over - eating and drinking ...
الصفحة 64
... various fluctuations in reputation and efficiency , accordin into four classes : -1 . The physical class , for natural science ; as it happened to be patronized or neglected by the reigni 2. the mathematical class , including astronomy ...
... various fluctuations in reputation and efficiency , accordin into four classes : -1 . The physical class , for natural science ; as it happened to be patronized or neglected by the reigni 2. the mathematical class , including astronomy ...
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الصفحة 49 - In a right triangle the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides or legs.
الصفحة 101 - The drama exhibits successive imitations of successive actions, and why may not the second imitation represent an action that happened years after the first, if it be so connected with it that nothing but time can be supposed to intervene? Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours.
الصفحة 194 - Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another. And if any man hunger, let him eat at home ; that ye come not together unto condemnation.
الصفحة 16 - second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of " the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between " king and people — and, by the advice of Jesuits and other " wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, " and having withdrawn himself out of this kingdom — has " abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby
الصفحة 247 - ... all the various entertainment we meet with either in poetry, painting, music, or any of the elegant arts, might be deducible from one or other of those principles in the constitution of the human mind, which are here established and explained.
الصفحة 251 - That thirty-six sections, or one entire township, which shall be designated by the President of the United States, together with the one heretofore reserved for that purpose, shall be reserved for the use of a seminary of learning, and vested in the Legislature of the said State, to be appropriated solely to the use of such seminary by the said Legislature.
الصفحة 287 - An Act to amend an act passed in the first year of his present majesty, to permit the general sale of beer and cider by retail in England.
الصفحة 101 - Rome, the event of the war may, without absurdity, be represented, in the catastrophe, as happening in Pontus; we know that there is neither war, nor preparation for war; we know that we are neither in Rome nor Pontus; that neither Mithridates nor Lucullus are before us. The drama exhibits successive imitations of successive actions, and why may not the second imitation represent an action that happened years after the first; if it be so connected with it, that nothing but time can be supposed to...
الصفحة 101 - VOL. x. o of so much of the action as is represented, the real and poetical duration is the same. If, in the first act, preparations for war against...
الصفحة 232 - ... man to tread on the surface of the earth, the eagle to soar in the expanse of the skies, and the monkey and squirrel to inhabit the trees: still these may change their relative situations without feeling much inconvenience: but the sloth is doomed to spend his whole life in the trees; and, what is more extraordinary, not upon the branches, like the squirrel and the monkey, but under them. He moves suspended from the branch, he rests suspended from it, and he sleeps suspended from it.