Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal dictionary of Knowledge, Volume 15 |
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... producing any fenfible change . This cir- cumftance enables us to divide mineral waters into clables , diftinguished by ... produced upon the water in close and in open veffels , and with different degrees of heat . If by thefe means mat ...
... producing any fenfible change . This cir- cumftance enables us to divide mineral waters into clables , diftinguished by ... produced upon the water in close and in open veffels , and with different degrees of heat . If by thefe means mat ...
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... produced . Any metallic fubftance , diffolved in water by an acid , may be detected by adding fome of the liquor fa- turated by the colouring matter of Pruffian bine . This liquor produces no effects upon neutral filts with earthy or ...
... produced . Any metallic fubftance , diffolved in water by an acid , may be detected by adding fome of the liquor fa- turated by the colouring matter of Pruffian bine . This liquor produces no effects upon neutral filts with earthy or ...
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... produced . But if the ore is poor , the product after the first fcorification must be brought into fufion , and afterwards melted with fome fresh borax , to calcine and scorify the remaining por- tion of iron ; after which it may be ...
... produced . But if the ore is poor , the product after the first fcorification must be brought into fufion , and afterwards melted with fome fresh borax , to calcine and scorify the remaining por- tion of iron ; after which it may be ...
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... produces 7 mag- rituous tincture of galls . 39. Spirituous folutions nifying powers , to diftinguish the ftructure and ... produced nature , by the ufe of very finall glafs veffels a- by fome of the re - agents in thofe analytical affays ...
... produces 7 mag- rituous tincture of galls . 39. Spirituous folutions nifying powers , to diftinguish the ftructure and ... produced nature , by the ufe of very finall glafs veffels a- by fome of the re - agents in thofe analytical affays ...
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... produce any fuliginous cruft on the veffels as the hole m of the jar , that was stopped with the oil does ; and gives a ... produced , by ly of two or three halfpence for the fpirit of wine , fying the pipe , fig . 16. to the mouth of an ...
... produce any fuliginous cruft on the veffels as the hole m of the jar , that was stopped with the oil does ; and gives a ... produced , by ly of two or three halfpence for the fpirit of wine , fying the pipe , fig . 16. to the mouth of an ...
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acid alfo almoft alſo alumina analyfed ancient antimony barytes becauſe blow-pipe body borax cafe called carbonat carbonic acid caufe colour compofed confequence confiderable confifts contains cryftallized difcovered diffolved earth falt fame fays feems fenfe feparated ferve feveral fhall fhould fide filica filk filver fince firft firſt fize fmail fmall foliated folution fome fometimes foon fpecies French ftate ftill ftone ftrong fubftance fubject fuch fulphur fuppofed furface GENUS gravity grey Hardneſs himſelf houfe inhabitants Klaproth laft lefs lime Luftre meaſure melts metallic miles mineral moft moſt mould mountains muft muriatic muriatic acid muſt nature nitric acid obferved occafion oxide paffions perfon potafs precipitate prefent prifm quantity reafon Ruffia Shak ſmall Specific gravity ſtate texture thefe themſelves ther theſe thofe thoſe tion town of France town of Naples Tranfparency ufually uſed whofe yellow
Popular passages
Page 353 - You may as well go stand upon the beach, And bid the main flood bate his usual height ; You may as well use question with the wolf, Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb ; You may as well forbid the mountain pines To wag their high tops, and to make no noise, When they are fretted with the gusts of heaven...
Page 386 - What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.
Page 396 - ... without any warrant or authority from any power either divine or human, but in direct contradiction to the laws both of God and man : and therefore the law has justly fixed the crime and punishment of murder on them and on their seconds also.
Page 133 - We do it wrong, being so majestical, To offer it the show of violence ; For it is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery.
Page 109 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
Page 371 - Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me And after bite me, then like hedgehogs which Lie tumbling in my barefoot way and mount Their pricks at my footfall. Sometime am I All wound with adders who with cloven tongues Do hiss me into madness.
Page 106 - And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child : and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
Page 309 - ... in case of non-payment at the time limited, for ever dead and gone from the mortgagor ; and the mortgagee's estate in the lands is then no longer conditional, but absolute. But, so long as it continues conditional, that is, between the time of lending the money, and the time allotted for payment, the mortgagee is called tenant in mortgage...
Page 170 - ... be reckoned thirty times cheaper than it is now. In the reign of William the Conqueror commodities were ten times cheaper than they are at prefent ; from which we cannot help forming a very high idea of the wealth and power of that king. For...
Page 257 - Laws, or from thofe who are intruded with the Execution of them. In fine, the Commercial Virtues and Duties require that we not only do not invade, but maintain the Rights of others ; that we be fair and impartial in transferring, bartering, or exchanging Property, whether in Goods or Service; and be inviolably faithful to our Word and our Engagements where the Matter of them is not criminal, and where they are not extorted by Force.