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, Paternoster-Row., 1795 - Всего страниц: 251 |
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... sometimes appear by night in the moonshine ; - what think you of them ? A. The lunar rainbow is formed exactly in the fame manner , by the bright beams of the moon ftriking upon the bofom of a fhower . 2. How do you account for that ...
... sometimes appear by night in the moonshine ; - what think you of them ? A. The lunar rainbow is formed exactly in the fame manner , by the bright beams of the moon ftriking upon the bofom of a fhower . 2. How do you account for that ...
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... sometimes appear by night in the moonshine ; - what think you of them ? A. The lunar rainbow is formed exactly in the fame manner , by the bright beams of the moon ftriking upon the bofom of a fhower . 2. How do you account for that ...
... sometimes appear by night in the moonshine ; - what think you of them ? A. The lunar rainbow is formed exactly in the fame manner , by the bright beams of the moon ftriking upon the bofom of a fhower . 2. How do you account for that ...
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... sometimes fall into fuch blunders , as Mr. Prior evidently does in the following lines : Once more at least look back , faid I ; Thyfelf in that large glafs defcry : When thou art in good - humour drest , When gentle reason rules thy ...
... sometimes fall into fuch blunders , as Mr. Prior evidently does in the following lines : Once more at least look back , faid I ; Thyfelf in that large glafs defcry : When thou art in good - humour drest , When gentle reason rules thy ...
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... sometimes illuminate a thin cloud in the fame manner as the moon . The Georgium Sidus is not readily feen without a telescope . 2. Have all the planets moons attendant upon them like our earth ? A. No ; fuch only of the planets as are ...
... sometimes illuminate a thin cloud in the fame manner as the moon . The Georgium Sidus is not readily feen without a telescope . 2. Have all the planets moons attendant upon them like our earth ? A. No ; fuch only of the planets as are ...
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... sometimes commit terrible devaftations among them . As to their manner of working , it is more afto- nishing than any other part of their hiftory . When they begin to build their combs , they divide them- selves into four bands ; the ...
... sometimes commit terrible devaftations among them . As to their manner of working , it is more afto- nishing than any other part of their hiftory . When they begin to build their combs , they divide them- selves into four bands ; 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. 46 - The scourge and ruin of my realm and race : Suppliant my children's murderer to implore, And kiss those hands yet reeking with their gore '.' These words soft pity in the chief inspire, Touch'd with the dear remembrance of his sire.
Стр. 221 - ... the weight of a column of water 33 feet high is equal to the weight of as thick a column of air, reaching from the furface of the earth to the top of the atmofphere...
Стр. 210 - Set a lighted candle upon the pump, and cover it with a tall receiver. If the receiver holds a gallon, the candle will burn a minute ; and, then, after having gradually decayed from the first...
Стр. 5 - A taste of every sort of knowledge is necessary to form the mind, and is the only way to give the understanding its due improvement to the full extent of its capacity.
Стр. 145 - It is near six inches in length from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, the former being about half an inch, and the latter two inches and a half.
Стр. 241 - 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. 85 - Many of these running down by the valleys between the ridges of the hills, and coming to unite, form little rivulets or brooks; many of...
Стр. 212 - ... the air. An artificial earthquake may be made thus. Take 10 or 15 pounds of fulphur, and as much of the filings of iron, and knead them with common water into the...
Стр. 114 - 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.