A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature and Practical Mechanics: Comprising a Popular View of the Present State of Knowledge : Illustrated by Numerous Engravings, a General Atlas, and Appropriate Diagrams, Volume 18Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 - Aeronautics |
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Page 33
... angle . Therefore the poles of this diurnal revo- lution must describe a circle round the poles of the ecliptic , at the distance of about 23 ° 30 ′ in 25745 years ; and , in the time of Timochares , the north pole of the heavens must ...
... angle . Therefore the poles of this diurnal revo- lution must describe a circle round the poles of the ecliptic , at the distance of about 23 ° 30 ′ in 25745 years ; and , in the time of Timochares , the north pole of the heavens must ...
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... angle m ES , which , in the case here represented , is greater than its mean longitude . The difference , or the equation of longitude , arising from the nutation of the OM earth's axis , is the angle OE P , or OM is ОЕ the sine of the ...
... angle m ES , which , in the case here represented , is greater than its mean longitude . The difference , or the equation of longitude , arising from the nutation of the OM earth's axis , is the angle OE P , or OM is ОЕ the sine of the ...
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... angle M N ' m is less than the angle M Nm . Thus the nodes shift their places in a direction opposite to that of her motion , or move to the west ; the axis of the orbit changes its position , and the orbit itself changes its ...
... angle M N ' m is less than the angle M Nm . Thus the nodes shift their places in a direction opposite to that of her motion , or move to the west ; the axis of the orbit changes its position , and the orbit itself changes its ...
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... angle formed by the March and Danube . Its area is 1740 square miles . The Carpathians traverse the whole length of this district ; but in general the elevations are not great , and they are com- monly covered with vineyards . Of the ...
... angle formed by the March and Danube . Its area is 1740 square miles . The Carpathians traverse the whole length of this district ; but in general the elevations are not great , and they are com- monly covered with vineyards . Of the ...
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... angle , I fastened their handles together with pitch , to make this angle invariable . Newton . The tuneful noise the sprightly courser hears , Paws the green turf , and pricks his trembling ears . Gay . If she pricked her finger , Jack ...
... angle , I fastened their handles together with pitch , to make this angle invariable . Newton . The tuneful noise the sprightly courser hears , Paws the green turf , and pricks his trembling ears . Gay . If she pricked her finger , Jack ...
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Page 41 - 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.
Page 113 - Father, who wouldest not the death of a sinner but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live...
Page 60 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 41 - 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.
Page 41 - By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his glory, some men and angels are predestinated unto everlasting life, and others foreordained to everlasting death. " These angels and men, thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed, and their number is so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.
Page 396 - Then kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays; Hope 'springs exulting on triumphant wing,' That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear, While circling Time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Page 135 - He who stills the raven's clam'rous nest, And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way his wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide ; But chiefly in their hearts with grace divine preside.
Page 184 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that. You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Page 403 - Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul; and, as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here, so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows reason at religion's sight; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.
Page 395 - When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.