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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... supposed to be the real fource of many of those phænomena or appearances , which were formerly thought to be owing to a very different cause . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIFTH EDITION . THE HE liberal Patronage PREFACE . vii.
... supposed to be the real fource of many of those phænomena or appearances , which were formerly thought to be owing to a very different cause . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIFTH EDITION . THE HE liberal Patronage PREFACE . vii.
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... supposed to be generated fo far below the furface . Add to this , that fhips failing in the bottomlefs ocean are affected by an earthquake , in the fame manner as if they were standing upon dry land.- They seem to feel as if they had ...
... supposed to be generated fo far below the furface . Add to this , that fhips failing in the bottomlefs ocean are affected by an earthquake , in the fame manner as if they were standing upon dry land.- They seem to feel as if they had ...
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... supposed that he moved , be- cause he seemed to do so . - But it is now demon- ftrated that he always remains fixed in the fame . place , and that it is the earth that moves round about him . 2. Does the fun afford us any other benefit ...
... supposed that he moved , be- cause he seemed to do so . - But it is now demon- ftrated that he always remains fixed in the fame . place , and that it is the earth that moves round about him . 2. Does the fun afford us any other benefit ...
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... supposed to be about two hundred and forty thousand miles . 2. What influence has the moon ? A. She is faid to be the cause of the tides . 2. How happens that ? A. By attracting the waters of the fea , fhe raifes them higher . 2. What ...
... supposed to be about two hundred and forty thousand miles . 2. What influence has the moon ? A. She is faid to be the cause of the tides . 2. How happens that ? A. By attracting the waters of the fea , fhe raifes them higher . 2. What ...
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... supposed to be the cause of many other phænomena befides thofe you have mentioned ? A. Signior Beccaria thinks it is the cause of water spouts . To make this the more evident , he first describes the circumstances attending the ap ...
... supposed to be the cause of many other phænomena befides thofe you have mentioned ? A. Signior Beccaria thinks it is the cause of water spouts . To make this the more evident , he first describes the circumstances attending the ap ...
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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.