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 20Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 - Aeronautics |
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... acid men- struum , if a good quantity of the little pearls be cast in whole , they will be carried in swarms from the bottom to the top . Boyle . When God gave Canaan to Abraham , he thought fit to put his seed into the grant too ...
... acid men- struum , if a good quantity of the little pearls be cast in whole , they will be carried in swarms from the bottom to the top . Boyle . When God gave Canaan to Abraham , he thought fit to put his seed into the grant too ...
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... acid , this water acquires the property of redden- ing litmus paper feebly , and of becoming muddy when mixed with sulphureted hydrogen gas . Selenic oxide gas is but very little soluble in water , and does not communicate any taste to ...
... acid , this water acquires the property of redden- ing litmus paper feebly , and of becoming muddy when mixed with sulphureted hydrogen gas . Selenic oxide gas is but very little soluble in water , and does not communicate any taste to ...
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... acid is in the form of very long four - sided needles . It seems to be most readily formed by the action of nitro - muriatic acid on selenium . The selenic acid does not melt with heat ; but it diminishes a little in bulk at the hottest ...
... acid is in the form of very long four - sided needles . It seems to be most readily formed by the action of nitro - muriatic acid on selenium . The selenic acid does not melt with heat ; but it diminishes a little in bulk at the hottest ...
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... acid , and shaking the glass ; and the like ebul- lition was more readily produced by a solution of sugar and Rhenish wine , or vinegar with the same and the same appearances were exhibited by dropping any vegetable or mineral acids into ...
... acid , and shaking the glass ; and the like ebul- lition was more readily produced by a solution of sugar and Rhenish wine , or vinegar with the same and the same appearances were exhibited by dropping any vegetable or mineral acids into ...
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... acid re- tained a while within the water , but which either evaporates into the open air , or else is soon combined with the mineral alkali : and he thinks it probable that the active virtues of this water depend more on this elastic ...
... acid re- tained a while within the water , but which either evaporates into the open air , or else is soon combined with the mineral alkali : and he thinks it probable that the active virtues of this water depend more on this elastic ...
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Page 167 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star...
Page 136 - But love is only one of many passions, and as it has no great influence upon the sum of life, it has little operation in the dramas of a poet, who caught his ideas from the living world, and exhibited only what he saw before him. He knew, that any other passion, as it was regular or exorbitant, was a cause of happiness or calamity.
Page 135 - Shakespeare is, above all writers, — at least above all modern writers, — the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.
Page 135 - A parliament member, a justice of peace, At home a poor scarecrow, at London an asse, If lowsie is Lucy, as some volke miscalle it, Then Lucy is lowsie, whatever befall it. He thinks himself great ; Yet an asse in his state, We allow, by his ears, but with asses to mate. If Lucy is lowsie as some volke miscall it, Then sing lowsie Lucy whatever befall it.
Page 409 - And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Page 416 - The endeavour of this present breath may buy That honour, which shall bate his scythe's keen edge, And make us heirs of all eternity. Therefore, brave conquerors ! — for so you are, That -war against your own affections, And the huge army of the world's desires...
Page 58 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty...
Page 426 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise!
Page 136 - ... field, and sometimes among the manufactures of the shop. There is however proof enough that he was a very diligent reader, nor was our language then so indigent of books, but that he might very liberally indulge his curiosity without excursion into foreign literature. Many of the Roman authors were...
Page 58 - I am in blood Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er. Strange things I have in head that will to hand, Which must be acted ere they may be scann'd.