Memoirs of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society |
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Memoirs of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society Visualització completa - 1785 |
Memoirs of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society Visualització completa - 1862 |
Memoirs of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society Visualització completa - 1785 |
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Pàgina 217 - It comes on indiscriminately at any hour of the day, at any time of the tide, or at any period of the moon, continuing sometimes only a day or two, at other times five or six days, and it has been known to last upwards of a fortnight.
Pàgina 91 - The untimely labour of the night, and the protracted labour of the day, with respect to children, not only tends to diminish future expectations as to the general sum of life and industry, by impairing the strength and destroying the vital stamina of the rising generation, but it too often gives encouragement to idleness, extravagance and profligacy in the parents, who, contrary to the order of nature, subsist by the oppression of their offspring.
Pàgina 216 - One of the largest of these pillars of sand," says a modern traveller, Caillie, " crossed our camp, overset all the seats, and whirling us about like straws, threw one of us on the other in the utmost confusion. We knew not where we were, and could not distinguish anything at the distance of a foot. The sand wrapped us in darkness like a fog, and the sky and the earth seemed confounded and blended in one. Whilst this frightful tempest lasted we remained stretched on the ground motionless, dying of...
Pàgina 137 - Their influence and example resulted in the formation of a Mathematical Society at Oldham, in AD 1794, by Messrs. Abraham Jackson, William Hilton, William Travis, James Travis, and John Bardsley, whose members soon distanced those of the parent society in geometrical pursuits. The establishment of this society supplied the requisite impulse for the full development of this local geometrical taste ; and no reasonable doubt can exist that the Manchester and Oldham Mathematical Societies were really...
Pàgina 220 - Sirocco is analogous to the Khamsin, but milder. It is a hot south-east wind, prevailing in the Mediterranean, in Italy and Sicily, but felt most violently in the country around Naples, and at Palermo. It sometimes commences faintly about the summer solstice, but blows occasionally with great force in the month of July.
Pàgina 58 - Bright blast-averting sulphur, nurse, bring fire ! That I may fumigate my walls ; then bid Penelope with her attendants down, And summon all the women of her train. But Euryclea thus his nurse replied.
Pàgina 217 - ... particles upon the grass and trees. Extreme dryness is another property of the harmattan. No dew falls during its continuance, nor is there the least appearance of moisture in the atmosphere.
Pàgina 209 - The consequence is, that, in obedience to hydrostatic laws, masses of air are continually buoyed up from the surface, or swelled round the torrid zone in the form of a protuberant belt, the upper strata flowing over and running off in streams north and south...
Pàgina 67 - The most pernicious infection, next the plague, is the smell of the jail, when prisoners have been long, and close, and nastily kept ; whereof we have had in our time experience twice or thrice ; when both the judges that sat upon the jail, and numbers of those that attended the business or were present, sickened upon it, and died.
Pàgina 218 - The wind being always from the North or East during this season of the year (December to June), a ship can moor as close to the weather shore as may be convenient ; but during July, August, September, and October, no vessel should deem the bay secure, or anchor near the shore, because southerly gales sometimes blow with great strength, and the rollers, or heavy...