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, 8권Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 |
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... machine , he was en- abled to obtain an accumulation of electricity far beyond any thing that had been effected by his predecessors . This philosopher discovered also the principle of electrical repulsion . 6. In the year 1709 appeared ...
... machine , he was en- abled to obtain an accumulation of electricity far beyond any thing that had been effected by his predecessors . This philosopher discovered also the principle of electrical repulsion . 6. In the year 1709 appeared ...
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... machine consisted of an iron rod forty feet long , the lower extremity of which was brought into a sentry - box , where the rain could not come ; while on the outside it was fastened to three wooden posts by long silken strings de ...
... machine consisted of an iron rod forty feet long , the lower extremity of which was brought into a sentry - box , where the rain could not come ; while on the outside it was fastened to three wooden posts by long silken strings de ...
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... machine , taking with him a phial furnished with a brass wire ; and presenting the wire to the end of the rod , a small spark issued from it with a snap like that which attends a spark from an electrified conductor . Stronger sparks ...
... machine , taking with him a phial furnished with a brass wire ; and presenting the wire to the end of the rod , a small spark issued from it with a snap like that which attends a spark from an electrified conductor . Stronger sparks ...
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... machine ; and the great practical use made of this disco- covery was to secure buildings , ships , & c . , from being damaged by lightning , by erecting on them pointed metallic rods , rising a little above the highest part of the ...
... machine ; and the great practical use made of this disco- covery was to secure buildings , ships , & c . , from being damaged by lightning , by erecting on them pointed metallic rods , rising a little above the highest part of the ...
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... machine . PART II . ON ELECTRICAL APPARATUS . 72. Numerous , extremely beautiful , and de- licate experiments may be made in electricity with but a small quantity of apparatus , and that of a simple form , and at a trifling expense ...
... machine . PART II . ON ELECTRICAL APPARATUS . 72. Numerous , extremely beautiful , and de- licate experiments may be made in electricity with but a small quantity of apparatus , and that of a simple form , and at a trifling expense ...
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180 페이지 - Christ was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it, And what that word did make it, That I believe and take it.
218 페이지 - Are they not his by a peculiar right, And by an emphasis of interest his, Whose eye they fill with tears of holy joy, Whose heart with praise, and whose exalted mind With worthy thoughts of that unwearied love That plann'd, and built, and still upholds a world So clothed with beauty for rebellious man...
205 페이지 - We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
430 페이지 - Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown : He raised a mortal to the skies: She drew an angel down.
398 페이지 - Fathers, being agreeable to the propriety of the place, and the analogy of faith. — 5. The division of the chapters to be altered either not at all, or as little as may be, if necessity so require it. — 6. No marginal notes at all to be affixed, but only for the explanation of the Hebrew or Greek words, which cannot, without some circumlocution, so briefly and fitly be expressed in the text.
398 페이지 - ... reasons; to which if they consent not, the difference to be compounded at the general meeting, which is to be of the chief persons of each company at the end of the work.
188 페이지 - And on that cheek, and o'er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent THE HARP THE MONARCH MINSTREL SWEPT.
8 페이지 - And be it further enacted, that no person in holy orders in the chnrch of Rome shall be capable of being elected to serve in parliament as a member of the house of commons...
398 페이지 - Bible: Tindale's, Matthew's, Coverdale's, Whitchurch's, Geneva. 15. Besides the said directors before mentioned, three or four of the most ancient and grave divines in either of the universities, not employed in translating, to be assigned by the Vice-Chancellor upon conference with the rest of the Heads to be overseers of the translations, as well Hebrew as Greek, for the better observation of the fourth rule above specified.
213 페이지 - I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly...