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 6Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 - Aeronautics |
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... matter of enquiry in this connexion . The schoolmen will not allow it to be derived from λαος , populus ; they deduce it from λαας , lapis , a stone . The following specimen of the mode of reasoning adopted by some celebrated doc- tors ...
... matter of enquiry in this connexion . The schoolmen will not allow it to be derived from λαος , populus ; they deduce it from λαας , lapis , a stone . The following specimen of the mode of reasoning adopted by some celebrated doc- tors ...
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... matter , which yields its odor . He thinks the ammonia contained in the putre- fied urine not to be conducive to its action , and advises the use of ordinary soap as better fitted to procure the desired whiteness to wools . When wool is ...
... matter , which yields its odor . He thinks the ammonia contained in the putre- fied urine not to be conducive to its action , and advises the use of ordinary soap as better fitted to procure the desired whiteness to wools . When wool is ...
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... matter to account for the long continuance of some very opaque clouds without dissolving ; or to give a reason why the vapors , when they have once be- gun to condense , do not continue to do so till they at last fall to the ground in ...
... matter to account for the long continuance of some very opaque clouds without dissolving ; or to give a reason why the vapors , when they have once be- gun to condense , do not continue to do so till they at last fall to the ground in ...
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... matter , nearly equal in its dimensions . A cluster of trees ; a tuft of trees or shrubs : anciently a plump . CLUMP3 , n . s . a numskull . " CLUMSY , adj . CLU'MSILY , adv . This word omitted in the other etymolo- CLUMSINESS , n.s. ...
... matter , nearly equal in its dimensions . A cluster of trees ; a tuft of trees or shrubs : anciently a plump . CLUMP3 , n . s . a numskull . " CLUMSY , adj . CLU'MSILY , adv . This word omitted in the other etymolo- CLUMSINESS , n.s. ...
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... matter , until such matter is reduced to coal , and then only in proportion to the carbonaceous matter it con- tains . Hence it occurred to Mr. Kirwan that , as coals appear in distillation to be for the most part merely compounds of ...
... matter , until such matter is reduced to coal , and then only in proportion to the carbonaceous matter it con- tains . Hence it occurred to Mr. Kirwan that , as coals appear in distillation to be for the most part merely compounds of ...
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Page 274 - Are not the mountains, waves, and skies, a part Of me and of my soul, as I of them?
Page 21 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar; Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown...
Page 322 - 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 subtle, natural philosophy deep, moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend,
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Page 415 - Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him, let him know, that he *which converteth the sinner from the error of his way, shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
Page 400 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Page 415 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er, or rarely, been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 326 - Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim — Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies.
Page 282 - Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.