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 11Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 - Aeronautics |
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... whole . As near as M. Bouguer could com pute , the diameter of the first of these circles was about 53 ° , that of the second 11 ° , that of the third 17 ° , and so on ; but the diameter of the white circle was about 76 ° . This ...
... whole . As near as M. Bouguer could com pute , the diameter of the first of these circles was about 53 ° , that of the second 11 ° , that of the third 17 ° , and so on ; but the diameter of the white circle was about 76 ° . This ...
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... whole number of houses of public worship , in 1817 , was 261 . The climate of New Hampshire is subject to the extremes of heat and cold , but the air is ge- nerally pure and salubrious . Morning and evening fires become necessary from ...
... whole number of houses of public worship , in 1817 , was 261 . The climate of New Hampshire is subject to the extremes of heat and cold , but the air is ge- nerally pure and salubrious . Morning and evening fires become necessary from ...
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... whole , the exports and im- ports are said to nearly balance , and the amount to be about £ 500,000 sterling . This is also about the amount of the national revenue : and the hereditary estates of the king yield another £ 500,000 . The ...
... whole , the exports and im- ports are said to nearly balance , and the amount to be about £ 500,000 sterling . This is also about the amount of the national revenue : and the hereditary estates of the king yield another £ 500,000 . The ...
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... whole time doth bound Within the ' enclosure of his little ground . Cowley . Oh ! happiness of sweet retired content , To be at once secure and innocent . Denham . Certain graces and happinesses , peculiar to every language , give life ...
... whole time doth bound Within the ' enclosure of his little ground . Cowley . Oh ! happiness of sweet retired content , To be at once secure and innocent . Denham . Certain graces and happinesses , peculiar to every language , give life ...
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... whole notes , nature requireth , for all harmonical use , one half note to be interposed . Id . All the wide - extended sky , And all the harmonious worlds on high , And Virgil's sacred work shall dye . Cowley . The harmony of things ...
... whole notes , nature requireth , for all harmonical use , one half note to be interposed . Id . All the wide - extended sky , And all the harmonious worlds on high , And Virgil's sacred work shall dye . Cowley . The harmony of things ...
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Page 389 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise; which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill and dale and plain...
Page 121 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 124 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Page 357 - Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death.bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their beams unshorn : Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien.
Page 24 - One cried, God bless us ! and, Amen, the other ; As they had seen me, with these hangman's hands, Listening their fear. I could not say, amen, When they did say, God bless us.
Page 33 - Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 189 - Veritate; if it be for Thy glory, I beseech Thee give me some sign from heaven ; if not, I shall suppress it.
Page 122 - All heaven and earth are still — though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most ; And silent, as we stand in thoughts too deep.
Page 80 - Poured through the mellow horn her pensive soul : And, dashing soft from rocks around, Bubbling runnels joined the sound ; Through glades and glooms the mingled measure stole, Or, o'er some haunted stream, with fond delay, Round an holy calm diffusing, Love of peace, and lonely musing, In hollow murmurs died away.
Page 391 - Kent ; painter enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opinionative enougli to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to strike out a great system from the twilight of imperfect essays. He leaped the fence, and saw that all nature was a garden.