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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... never dries , and that has no current , as the Cafpian Lake in Afia , moft com- monly , but improperly called the Cafpian Sea . 2. From whence do rivers and brooks derive their stores ? A. A river is a ftream of fresh water , formed ...
... never dries , and that has no current , as the Cafpian Lake in Afia , moft com- monly , but improperly called the Cafpian Sea . 2. From whence do rivers and brooks derive their stores ? A. A river is a ftream of fresh water , formed ...
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... is totally abolished . Perhaps , however , it will never be totally abo- lished , as there feems to be a radical and an irre- movable movable caufe for the fuperior coldness of Ame- rica above 100 AN ABRIDGMENT OF THE.
... is totally abolished . Perhaps , however , it will never be totally abo- lished , as there feems to be a radical and an irre- movable movable caufe for the fuperior coldness of Ame- rica above 100 AN ABRIDGMENT OF THE.
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... never ceafe to rail against the delightful fictions with which Homer and Hefiod , and their poetical imitators , have enriched and embellished their works : but although thefe 2. Who was the oldeft of the gods ? A. 114 AN ABRIDGMENT OF THE.
... never ceafe to rail against the delightful fictions with which Homer and Hefiod , and their poetical imitators , have enriched and embellished their works : but although thefe 2. Who was the oldeft of the gods ? A. 114 AN ABRIDGMENT OF THE.
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... never felt your charms ! And what objects of indignation those fierce and favage fpirits , who would deftroy a world that has fo long been the treasury of the arts ! a world imaginary indeed , but delightful , and whofe ideal pleasures ...
... never felt your charms ! And what objects of indignation those fierce and favage fpirits , who would deftroy a world that has fo long been the treasury of the arts ! a world imaginary indeed , but delightful , and whofe ideal pleasures ...
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... never left him : by Europa , he had Minos , and Rhadamanthus , who , from their severity in dif- penfing juftice while on earth , were named judges of hell by Danäe , he had Perfeus , who rendered his name famous ; he had also a ...
... never left him : by Europa , he had Minos , and Rhadamanthus , who , from their severity in dif- penfing juftice while on earth , were named judges of hell by Danäe , he had Perfeus , who rendered his name famous ; he had also a ...
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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.