Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, Volume 18John Brown, 1816 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... most exact method is to fufpend in the re- ceiver of an air - pumpa glass vessel , having a very narrow mouth over a ciftern of mercury , and then abftract the air till the gage rifes to fome deter- mined height . The difference e ...
... most exact method is to fufpend in the re- ceiver of an air - pumpa glass vessel , having a very narrow mouth over a ciftern of mercury , and then abftract the air till the gage rifes to fome deter- mined height . The difference e ...
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... most accurately determined ; namely , by obferving , that when the temperature of air and mercury was 32 , the difference of the logarithms of the mercurial heights were precisely the fathoms of elevation . But it requires many ...
... most accurately determined ; namely , by obferving , that when the temperature of air and mercury was 32 , the difference of the logarithms of the mercurial heights were precisely the fathoms of elevation . But it requires many ...
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... most accurate method for graduating fuch a ba 3461 rometer would be to make a mixture of vitriolic 3180 acid and water , which thould have one roth of 2342 the denfity of mercury . Then , let a long tube 3454 ftand verticle in this ...
... most accurate method for graduating fuch a ba 3461 rometer would be to make a mixture of vitriolic 3180 acid and water , which thould have one roth of 2342 the denfity of mercury . Then , let a long tube 3454 ftand verticle in this ...
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... most diftant inhabitants of this and making a communication of benefits would otherwife have been impoffible ; we the art of NAVIGATION or Seamanship . Of machines which human art has conftructed , is not only the greatest and most ...
... most diftant inhabitants of this and making a communication of benefits would otherwife have been impoffible ; we the art of NAVIGATION or Seamanship . Of machines which human art has conftructed , is not only the greatest and most ...
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... most eminent mathematicians . Though they appear to differ from Newton's , their refults are precisely the fame ; but , on a close examination , they differ no more than John Bernouilli's theo rem of centripetal forces differs from ...
... most eminent mathematicians . Though they appear to differ from Newton's , their refults are precisely the fame ; but , on a close examination , they differ no more than John Bernouilli's theo rem of centripetal forces differs from ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.