Chambers's miscellany of instructive & entertaining tracts, Volumen 17 |
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... lived retired from business . His wife , Agnes Muirhead , the mother of the illustrious Watt , was of a very respect- able family ; of her disposition , and the character of her mind , we have no particular account . The subject of our ...
... lived retired from business . His wife , Agnes Muirhead , the mother of the illustrious Watt , was of a very respect- able family ; of her disposition , and the character of her mind , we have no particular account . The subject of our ...
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... lived in the third century before Christ . This writer , whose attainments in science were very great for his age , describes a toy called the Eolipile , the purpose of which is to produce a rotatory motion by the action of steam . best ...
... lived in the third century before Christ . This writer , whose attainments in science were very great for his age , describes a toy called the Eolipile , the purpose of which is to produce a rotatory motion by the action of steam . best ...
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... lived chiefly at Versailles , or in the small palace in the adjoining grounds , known by the name of the Trianon , where the princess had an opportunity of indulging in her love for flowers and gardening , and Louis could pursue ...
... lived chiefly at Versailles , or in the small palace in the adjoining grounds , known by the name of the Trianon , where the princess had an opportunity of indulging in her love for flowers and gardening , and Louis could pursue ...
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... lived to return to France at the Restoration . The revolutionary tribunals , which destroyed every one claiming relationship with royalty that fell within their grasp , did not even refrain from taking the lives of servants and ...
... lived to return to France at the Restoration . The revolutionary tribunals , which destroyed every one claiming relationship with royalty that fell within their grasp , did not even refrain from taking the lives of servants and ...
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... lived , he might justly put such a false and blood - thirsty enemy to death , but the com- missioners advise that no torture be used , and insist that the execution shall not take place within the English settlements . ' In pursuance of ...
... lived , he might justly put such a false and blood - thirsty enemy to death , but the com- missioners advise that no torture be used , and insist that the execution shall not take place within the English settlements . ' In pursuance of ...
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Página 6 - Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one of another, Covenant and Combine ourselves together into a Civil Body Politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission...
Página 10 - An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosopher calleth it, infra spheeram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder, if the vessels be strong enough ; for I have taken a piece of a whole cannon, whereof the end was burst, and filled it...
Página 29 - ... all around him, and gave the most liberal assistance and encouragement to all young persons who showed any indications of talent, or applied to him for patronage or advice. His health, which was delicate from his youth upwards, seemed to become firmer as he advanced in years : and he preserved, up almost to the last moment of his existence, not only the full command of his extraordinary intellect, but all the alacrity of spirit, and the social gaiety which had illuminated his happiest days.
Página 6 - King, defender of the faith, &c., having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do, by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid...
Página 28 - No track of men, no footsteps to and fro, Lead to her gates. The path lies o'er the sea, Invisible ; and from the land we went, As to a floating city — steering in, And gliding up her streets as in a dream, So smoothly, silently — by many a dome Mosque-like, and many a stately portico, The statues ranged along an azure sky ; By many a pile in more than eastern splendour, Of old the residence of merchant kings...
Página 29 - ... his happiest days. His friends in this part of the country never saw him more full of intellectual vigour and colloquial animation, never more delightful or more instructive, than in his last visit to Scotland in autumn, 1817. Indeed, it was after that time that he applied himself, with all the ardour of early life, to the invention of a machine for mechanically copying all sorts of sculpture and statuary, and distributed among his friends some of its earliest performances, as the productions...
Página 24 - At his first coming on board us, he had so much forgot his language, for want of use, that we could scarce understand him, for he seemed to speak his words by halves.