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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... move in two contrary currents , and this almost always previous to thunder . The clouds in fuch a cafe are seen to move one way , while the weather - cock points another . Red clouds appearing in the morning prefage winds and rain . 3 ...
... move in two contrary currents , and this almost always previous to thunder . The clouds in fuch a cafe are seen to move one way , while the weather - cock points another . Red clouds appearing in the morning prefage winds and rain . 3 ...
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... moves almoft inftantaneously found moves no more than 1142 feet in a fecond . That light moves much fafter than found , any one may fatisfy himself by obferving a gun discharged at a distance , for he will fee the fire long before he ...
... moves almoft inftantaneously found moves no more than 1142 feet in a fecond . That light moves much fafter than found , any one may fatisfy himself by obferving a gun discharged at a distance , for he will fee the fire long before he ...
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... moved an inverted cone , or , which is the fame thing , a folid body of earth in the shape of a fugar - loaf turned upfide down , whose base was 30 miles , and its axis , or depth , 15 or 20 miles ; an effect which , he affirms , no ...
... moved an inverted cone , or , which is the fame thing , a folid body of earth in the shape of a fugar - loaf turned upfide down , whose base was 30 miles , and its axis , or depth , 15 or 20 miles ; an effect which , he affirms , no ...
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... moving bodies ; and the construction and effects of all those machines and engines which go by the name of mechanic powers . 2. What is motion ? A. A continual and fucceffive change of place . 2. What is reft ? A. The continuance of a ...
... moving bodies ; and the construction and effects of all those machines and engines which go by the name of mechanic powers . 2. What is motion ? A. A continual and fucceffive change of place . 2. What is reft ? A. The continuance of a ...
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... move without fric- tion , would give him greater force than any of the reft : the wedge , used in cleaving wood , & c . and the inclined plane , by which heavy bodies are rolled up with greater eafe . And of these all the most compound ...
... move without fric- tion , would give him greater force than any of the reft : the wedge , used in cleaving wood , & c . and the inclined plane , by which heavy bodies are rolled up with greater eafe . And of these all the most compound ...
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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.