Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, Tom 18John Brown, 1816 |
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... a spec- tator at A. This must be illuminated by a ray SD b , touching the earth's surface at some point D. Now it is a known fact , that the degree of illumination or , because OC and OD are ultimately in the 2 SECT . VI . PNEUMATIC S.
... a spec- tator at A. This must be illuminated by a ray SD b , touching the earth's surface at some point D. Now it is a known fact , that the degree of illumination or , because OC and OD are ultimately in the 2 SECT . VI . PNEUMATIC S.
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... surface of the earth ; and we can compare the denfity fo calculated with the denfity discovered by obfervation : for this last is measured by the height at which it fup- ports mercury in the barometer . This is the direct meafure of the ...
... surface of the earth ; and we can compare the denfity fo calculated with the denfity discovered by obfervation : for this last is measured by the height at which it fup- ports mercury in the barometer . This is the direct meafure of the ...
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... surface , when we compare it with the small spaces in which the corpufcular forces are exerted ; a quantity of air moving in a polished pipe may be compared to a quantity of small fhot fliding down a channel with undulated fides and ...
... surface , when we compare it with the small spaces in which the corpufcular forces are exerted ; a quantity of air moving in a polished pipe may be compared to a quantity of small fhot fliding down a channel with undulated fides and ...
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... surface moving equally fwift in the oppofite direction . The refiftance of the air to the motion of the body will be equal to the impulfe of the air in the former cafe . Thus refiftance and impulfe are equal and contrary . If the air be ...
... surface moving equally fwift in the oppofite direction . The refiftance of the air to the motion of the body will be equal to the impulfe of the air in the former cafe . Thus refiftance and impulfe are equal and contrary . If the air be ...
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... surface for its bafe , and for its height the space through which a body must fall in order to acquire the ve- locity of the air . 3dly , Suppose the furface AC equal to a C no longer to be perpendicular to the ftream of air , but ...
... surface for its bafe , and for its height the space through which a body must fall in order to acquire the ve- locity of the air . 3dly , Suppose the furface AC equal to a C no longer to be perpendicular to the ftream of air , but ...
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Strona 258 - GOD from all eternity did by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass : yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures, nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.
Strona 44 - The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heav'n to earth, from earth to heav'n; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Strona 274 - And secondly, it means that the prerogative of the crown extends not to do any injury: it is created for the benefit of the people, and therefore cannot be exerted to their prejudice.
Strona 259 - Christ unto everlasting glory, out of his mere free grace and love, without any foresight of faith or good works, or perseverance in either of them, or any other thing in the creature, as conditions or causes moving him thereunto, and all to the praise of his glorious grace.
Strona 236 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. Duch. Alas ! poor Richard ! where rides he the while ? York. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...
Strona 276 - What is done by the royal authority, with regard to foreign powers, is the act of the whole nation; what is done without the king's concurrence, is the act only of private men.
Strona 98 - Pollute with sinful blame, The saintly veil of maiden white to throw; Confounded, that her Maker's eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities.
Strona 223 - He was perfumed like a milliner, And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose and took't away again; Who therewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in snuff...
Strona 222 - But poverty, though it does not prevent the generation, is extremely unfavourable to the rearing of children. The tender plant is produced, but in so cold a soil, and so severe a climate, soon withers and dies. It is not uncommon, I have been frequently told, in the Highlands of Scotland for a mother who has borne twenty children not to have two alive.
Strona 277 - England it hath always been holden, that the king is lord of the whole shore, and particularly is the guardian of the ports and havens, which are the inlets and gates of the realm; and therefore, so early as the reign of King John, we find ships seized by the king's officers for putting in at a place that was not a legal port.