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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... land.- They seem to feel as if they had struck upon a rock , or as if something had thumped against their bottom . But this could never be the cafe , did the earthquake arife from a fubterraneous explofion at the bottom of the fea ; for ...
... land.- They seem to feel as if they had struck upon a rock , or as if something had thumped against their bottom . But this could never be the cafe , did the earthquake arife from a fubterraneous explofion at the bottom of the fea ; for ...
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... land ; and the temporary damage done to the vineyards on the Somma fide , and for many miles round , by the afhes , is immenfe . In fome places they are not less than four feet deep . 6. Of Tides . 2. Pray what is meant by the tides ...
... land ; and the temporary damage done to the vineyards on the Somma fide , and for many miles round , by the afhes , is immenfe . In fome places they are not less than four feet deep . 6. Of Tides . 2. Pray what is meant by the tides ...
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... land . The tide , for inftance , in the Indian ocean being stopped by the eastern coast of Africa , muft neceffarily flow fouth , towards the Cape of Good Hope , which having paffed , it then runs north- ward along the western coast of ...
... land . The tide , for inftance , in the Indian ocean being stopped by the eastern coast of Africa , muft neceffarily flow fouth , towards the Cape of Good Hope , which having paffed , it then runs north- ward along the western coast of ...
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... lands , foundations of focieties , and the conftitution of cities , towns , and villages . 2. What is the civil law ? A. The civil law is that which is peculiar to any country or people , and adminifters that which arifes from their ...
... lands , foundations of focieties , and the conftitution of cities , towns , and villages . 2. What is the civil law ? A. The civil law is that which is peculiar to any country or people , and adminifters that which arifes from their ...
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... to invent it to remedy the diforders oc- cafioned in their lands by the annual overflowings of the river Nile , which defaced every boundary . 2. How is quantity distinguished ? A. Into lines , 2. How 54 AN ABRIDGMENT OF THE.
... to invent it to remedy the diforders oc- cafioned in their lands by the annual overflowings of the river Nile , which defaced every boundary . 2. How is quantity distinguished ? A. Into lines , 2. How 54 AN ABRIDGMENT OF 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.