The British Cyclopaedia of the Arts, Sciences, History, Geography, Literature, Natural History, and Biography ...Charles Frederick Partington Wm. S. Orr and Company, 1838 |
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Стр. viii
... usually employed to counteract the effects of gravitation , and to produce effects which the unassisted powers of man could not otherwise accomplish ; and it is astonishing how small is the change which time has effected in their ...
... usually employed to counteract the effects of gravitation , and to produce effects which the unassisted powers of man could not otherwise accomplish ; and it is astonishing how small is the change which time has effected in their ...
Стр. xxxiii
... usually of a very simple character , and as they rarely produced more than five or six different tones . The invention of the organ by Ctesibius forms a remarkable epoch in this branch of acoustical science . The larger wind instruments ...
... usually of a very simple character , and as they rarely produced more than five or six different tones . The invention of the organ by Ctesibius forms a remarkable epoch in this branch of acoustical science . The larger wind instruments ...
Стр. lxii
... usually so formed as to give the preponderance to that side of the vessel . In some modern improvements the keel is made movable , so that it will ascend and descend precisely in the same way as the feet of a bird are elevated and de ...
... usually so formed as to give the preponderance to that side of the vessel . In some modern improvements the keel is made movable , so that it will ascend and descend precisely in the same way as the feet of a bird are elevated and de ...
Стр. lxxxv
... usually found difficult subjects to comprehend , may now be understood . Electricity and magnetism are intimately connected with the previous subjects . After consulting the general articles ELECTRICITY , GALVANISM , and MAGNETISM ...
... usually found difficult subjects to comprehend , may now be understood . Electricity and magnetism are intimately connected with the previous subjects . After consulting the general articles ELECTRICITY , GALVANISM , and MAGNETISM ...
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... usually understood to apply but to the extremities of an arch or bridge . Butments of arches are the same with buttresses , and they answer to what the Romans called sublices . One of the most beautiful applications of the abut- ment ...
... usually understood to apply but to the extremities of an arch or bridge . Butments of arches are the same with buttresses , and they answer to what the Romans called sublices . One of the most beautiful applications of the abut- ment ...
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Стр. 122 - The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed; For each seemed either; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on...
Стр. 123 - The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her. inspiring mantle over me.
Стр. 164 - He formed them; and that these primitive particles, being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces...
Стр. xliv - I tread upon. The other redeems it from all its insignificance ; for it tells me that in the leaves of every forest, and in the flowers of every garden, and in the waters of every rivulet, there are worlds teeming with life, and numberless as are the glories of the firmament.
Стр. xliv - ... and that could we draw aside the mysterious curtain which shrouds it from our senses, we might there see a theatre of as many wonders as astronomy has unfolded, a universe within the compass of a point so small, as to elude all the powers of the microscope, but where the wonder-working God finds room for the exercise of all his attributes, where he can raise another mechanism of worlds, and fill and animate them all with the evidences of his glory.
Стр. 88 - Naples, at the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries, the history of which, however, is obscure.
Стр. 224 - ... the sides smooth previous to putting in the pipe. This chisel is attached to rods and to the handle, as before described, and in its descent the workmen continually walk round, by which the hole is made smooth and cylindrical.
Стр. 225 - Brails is likewise a name given to all the ropes employed to haul up the bottoms, lower corners and skirts of the great sails in general. The operation of drawing them together is called brailmg them up, or hauling them up to the brails.
Стр. 151 - I have seen double and treble nebulae variously arranged; large ones with small, seeming attendants ; narrow, but much extended lucid nebulae or bright dashes; some of the shape of a fan, resembling an electric brush issuing from a lucid point; others of the cometic shape, with a seeming nucleus in the centre, or like cloudy stars surrounded with a nebulous atmosphere. A different sort, again...