Miscellaneous Correspondence, Volume 4W. Owen., 1764 Containing a variety of subjects, relative to natural and civil history, geography, mathematics, poetry, memoirs of monthly occurrences, catalogues of new books, &c... |
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Page 595
... must certainly be out of the Time at Beginning , or elfe our Maps are extreamly bad ; as for his faying Mr. Moyer's ( as he calls him ) Tables erring 4 ' 30 " at Middle , I make them err but 2 ' . The other Obfervation , by Mr. Haftings ...
... must certainly be out of the Time at Beginning , or elfe our Maps are extreamly bad ; as for his faying Mr. Moyer's ( as he calls him ) Tables erring 4 ' 30 " at Middle , I make them err but 2 ' . The other Obfervation , by Mr. Haftings ...
Page 597
... must she rife , And lend her rays to gild her fatal throne ? Muft the mild power , who melts in vernal fkies , By thunders only make his godhead known ? No , be the omen far away , From yonder pregnant cloud a kinder gleam , Tho ...
... must she rife , And lend her rays to gild her fatal throne ? Muft the mild power , who melts in vernal fkies , By thunders only make his godhead known ? No , be the omen far away , From yonder pregnant cloud a kinder gleam , Tho ...
Page 607
... must fteer . But the Ang . CFB is given = 101 ° 15 ' , confequently the Ang . CBF 43 ° 38 ' ; therefore in the oblique Triangle CB F , all the Angles and the Side CF are given ; whence C B is found = 113.3 Miles , the Diftance of the ...
... must fteer . But the Ang . CFB is given = 101 ° 15 ' , confequently the Ang . CBF 43 ° 38 ' ; therefore in the oblique Triangle CB F , all the Angles and the Side CF are given ; whence C B is found = 113.3 Miles , the Diftance of the ...
Page 608
... must be a whole Number , and is 2 188 } 2 E. D. · S 6 × 6 = 362 144 + 36 = 180 212 x 12 = 144 $ 14436 108 This Queftion was alfo anfwered by Mr. J. Carter , Mr. Rob . Eling , and by Mr. Rob . Hall , the Propofer . · A New QUESTIONS to ...
... must be a whole Number , and is 2 188 } 2 E. D. · S 6 × 6 = 362 144 + 36 = 180 212 x 12 = 144 $ 14436 108 This Queftion was alfo anfwered by Mr. J. Carter , Mr. Rob . Eling , and by Mr. Rob . Hall , the Propofer . · A New QUESTIONS to ...
Page 610
... must I that feafon rafe , And muft oblivion take its place , Or will my friend regret He has not wrote , and quit the toil Of bus'nc's for the focial finile , And make me happy yet . An Elegiac ODE . W. P. On pulling down the long ...
... must I that feafon rafe , And muft oblivion take its place , Or will my friend regret He has not wrote , and quit the toil Of bus'nc's for the focial finile , And make me happy yet . An Elegiac ODE . W. P. On pulling down the long ...
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Page 980 - America; it is agreed, that, for the future, the confines between the dominions of his Britannic majesty, and those of his most Christian majesty, in that part of the world, shall be fixed irrevocably by a line drawn along the middle of the river Mississippi, from its source to the river Iberville, and from thence, by a line drawn along the middle of this river, and the lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain, to the sea...
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Page 987 - Holy and Undivided Trinity. It having pleased the Divine Providence to dispose the hearts of the Most Serene and Most Potent Prince, George the Third, by the grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburg, ArchTreasurer and Prince Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, &c...
Page 980 - Majesty, in full right, Canada, with all its dependencies, as well as the island of Cape Breton, and all the other islands and coasts in the gulph and river of St Lawrence...
Page 936 - France, in its whole breadth and length, from its source to the sea, and expressly that part, which is between the said island of New Orleans, and the right bank of that River, as well as the passage both in and out of its mouth...
Page 981 - Grenada, and the Grenadines, with the same stipulations in favour of the inhabitants of this colony, inserted in the IVth article for those of Canada : And the partition of the islands called neutral, is agreed and fixed, so that those of St.
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Page 979 - Ryswick of 1697 ; those of peace and of commerce of Utrecht of 1713; that of Baden of 1714; the treaty of the triple alliance of the Hague of 1717; that of the quadruple alliance of London of 1718; the treaty of peace of Vienna of 1738; the definitive treaty of...
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