The British Palladium: Or, Annual Miscellany of Literature and Science for the Year ..., Volume 2

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D. Steel., 1752 - Almanacs, English

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Page 45 - But mutual wants this happiness increase : All nature's difference keeps all nature's peace. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing ; Bliss is the same in subject or in king, in who obtain defence, or who defend, In him who is, or him who finds a friend : Heaven breathes through every member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
Page 20 - Rate per Cent. Then cut off the two laft Figures to the Right Hand and the reft you maß -find in the Table.
Page 6 - Blest source of purer joys! In ev'ry form of beauty bright, That captivates the mental sight With pleasure and surprise; V. To thy unspotted shrine I bow: Attend thy modest suppliant's vow, That breathes no wild desires; But, taught by thy unerring rules, To shun the fruitless wish of fools, To nobler views aspires.
Page 4 - Person who wears them at pleasure, and are an Ornament to the Mouth, and greatly help the Speech : Also Teeth are cleaned and drawn by Samuel Butter and William Green, Operators, who apply themselves wholly to the said Business, and live in Racquet Court, Fleet Street, London.
Page 5 - Diary, or the Mathematical Repository. An Almanack for the Year of our Lord 1756; Being the Bissextile, or Leap-Year.
Page 25 - I would not doubt My combat with that loud vain-glorious boaster. Were you, ye fair, but cautious whom ye trust, Did you but think how seldom fools are just, So many of your sex would not in vain Of broken vows, and faithless men, complain...
Page 30 - ... as a weight falls in the fecond; confequently muft be as Gravefand, in his Mathematical Philofophy, page 188, N" 378, fays, " In the time in which a body falling freely, goes through " the height of the liquid above the hole, a column of the " liquid flows out equal in length to twice that height.
Page 19 - Queens alfo the Year, Month, and Day, whereon they began to reign : beginning the Year the firft Day of January, 1763 Length of each Reign.
Page 47 - SP be •..tije diitancc of the two centers, at the time of the greateft obfcuraYion, and SQ the required difference of longitudes at that time. For, fince the circumference of the circle thus defcribed, coincides with the real curve (whatever it is) in three points

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