An Easy Introduction to the Arts and Sciences:: Being a Short, But Comprehensive System of Useful and Polite Learning, Divided Into Lessons. Illustrated with Cuts, and Adapted to the Use of Schools and AcademiesS. Crowder, Pater-noster-Row., 1792 - Всего страниц: 248 |
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... Winds - Clouds and Mifts - Rain -Dew - Snow IV . Hail ― Thunder and Lightning - the Iris , or Rainbow - Aurora Borealis- Earthquakes - Tides V. Metaphyfics -- Jurifprudence Page I 5 II 1737 27 VI . Medicine - Anatomy Surgery- Pharmacy ...
... Winds - Clouds and Mifts - Rain -Dew - Snow IV . Hail ― Thunder and Lightning - the Iris , or Rainbow - Aurora Borealis- Earthquakes - Tides V. Metaphyfics -- Jurifprudence Page I 5 II 1737 27 VI . Medicine - Anatomy Surgery- Pharmacy ...
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... - the Air Of Water and Water Engines , commonly called Hydraulic Machines Additional Remarks on Geography . Of the Winds Tides Electricity 197 200 202 214 224 231 233 236 A valuable Publication for the Youth of both Sexes , CONTENTS . xi.
... - the Air Of Water and Water Engines , commonly called Hydraulic Machines Additional Remarks on Geography . Of the Winds Tides Electricity 197 200 202 214 224 231 233 236 A valuable Publication for the Youth of both Sexes , CONTENTS . xi.
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... ter- reftrial bodies that rife into the air , fulphurs , falts , bitumens , and other bodies of different natures , more or lefs combustible , folid or heavy . LESSON LESSON III . 2. The Wind . 2. WHAT is ( 10 AN ABRIDGMENT OF THE.
... ter- reftrial bodies that rife into the air , fulphurs , falts , bitumens , and other bodies of different natures , more or lefs combustible , folid or heavy . LESSON LESSON III . 2. The Wind . 2. WHAT is ( 10 AN ABRIDGMENT OF THE.
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... Wind . 2. WHAT is the wind ? A. Nothing elfe but the air put vio- lently into motion ; and this occafioned chiefly by means of heat . For , when any part of the air is heated by the fun , or otherwife , it will swell , and thereby ...
... Wind . 2. WHAT is the wind ? A. Nothing elfe but the air put vio- lently into motion ; and this occafioned chiefly by means of heat . For , when any part of the air is heated by the fun , or otherwife , it will swell , and thereby ...
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... Wind , which is confequently the coldeft . The South Wind is the warmeft , particularly in the fummer , because it comes from the Torrid Zone , over countries hotter than ours . The Eaft Wind is the dryeft , because it comes across the ...
... Wind , which is confequently the coldeft . The South Wind is the warmeft , particularly in the fummer , because it comes from the Torrid Zone , over countries hotter than ours . The Eaft Wind is the dryeft , because it comes across the ...
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Стр. 46 - As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Стр. 137 - The great blue heron (Ardea herodias) is about four feet in length from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, and nearly six feet across the wings.
Стр. 238 - Franklin, astonishing as it must have appeared, contrived actually to bring lightning from the heavens, by means of an electrical kite, which he raised when a storm of thunder was perceived to be coming on. This kite had a pointed wire fixed upon it, by which it drew the lightning from the clouds. This lightning...
Стр. 239 - ... so that it would stream out plentifully from the key, at the approach of a person's finger. At this key he charged phials, and from electric fire thus obtained, he kindled spirits, and performed all other electrical experiments which are usually exhibited by an excited globe or tube.
Стр. 110 - The soft murmurs of the waters are the sighs of the Naiads. A god impels the winds. A god pours out the rivers. Grapes are the gift of Bacchus. Ceres presides over the harvest. Orchards are the care of Pomona. Does a shepherd sound his reed on the summit of a mountain, it is Pan who with his...
Стр. 215 - If a little water be poured into the tube upon the lead, it will increafe the weight upon the column of water under the lead, and caufe the lead to fall from the tube to the bottom of the glafs veflel, where it will lie in the fituation b d.
Стр. 66 - Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November ; February twenty-eight alone, All the rest have thirty-one ; Except in Leap year, then is the time, When February has twenty-nine.
Стр. 215 - AB, to the depth of fix inches below the furface of the water at K : and then the leaden bottom EFG will be plunged to the depth of fomewhat more than eleven times its own thicknefs : holding the tube at that depth, you may let go the thread at L, and the lead will not fall from the tube, but...
Стр. 11 - ... will afcend towards the upper part of the atmofphere, and the adjacent air will rufh in to fupply its place ; and therefore, there will be a ftream or current of air from all parts towards the place where the heat is. And hence we fee the reafon why the air rufhes with fuch force into a glafs-houfe, or towards any place where a great fire is made.
Стр. 111 - ... of men and gods : under his feet roll the thunders formed by the Cyclops in the cavern of Lemnos : his smile rejoices nature, and his nod shakes the foundation of Olympus.