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... fix the terms of the year . And thus much may suffice to say of time in relation to the present subject ; for more on time in gene- ral , we refer to the Pantologists and Lexicographers . In the time of Numa Pompilius , the month of ...
... fix the terms of the year . And thus much may suffice to say of time in relation to the present subject ; for more on time in gene- ral , we refer to the Pantologists and Lexicographers . In the time of Numa Pompilius , the month of ...
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... fixed and a solid body . It must also have retained its heat an immense time ; for a globe of iron , of an inch in diameter , exposed to the open air , scarcely loses its heat in less than an hour ; but a larger globe will retain its ...
... fixed and a solid body . It must also have retained its heat an immense time ; for a globe of iron , of an inch in diameter , exposed to the open air , scarcely loses its heat in less than an hour ; but a larger globe will retain its ...
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... fixed on as one of the best measures of time that is afforded to us by nature . By means of his apparent diurnal and annual revolutions , we obtain the two grand and important divisions of time , into days and years . By com- bining the ...
... fixed on as one of the best measures of time that is afforded to us by nature . By means of his apparent diurnal and annual revolutions , we obtain the two grand and important divisions of time , into days and years . By com- bining the ...
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... fixed stars in nearly four minutes less , or in 23h . 56m , 4s .; so that any given fixed star is found to gain 3m . 56s . upon the Sun every day , which amounts to one diurnal revo- lution in a year ; and therefore in 365 days , as ...
... fixed stars in nearly four minutes less , or in 23h . 56m , 4s .; so that any given fixed star is found to gain 3m . 56s . upon the Sun every day , which amounts to one diurnal revo- lution in a year ; and therefore in 365 days , as ...
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... fixed stars to the meridian affords an easy method of determining whether our chronometers keep true time . For if through a small hole in a window - shutter , or other fixed object , it be observed at what time a given star disappears ...
... fixed stars to the meridian affords an easy method of determining whether our chronometers keep true time . For if through a small hole in a window - shutter , or other fixed object , it be observed at what time a given star disappears ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 373 - See here thy pictur'd life ; pass some few years, Thy flowering Spring, thy Summer's ardent strength, Thy sober Autumn fading into age, And pale concluding Winter comes at last, And shuts the scene.
Página 365 - Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man...
Página 354 - Th' unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an almighty hand. Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth: Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Página 41 - Savage did not exempt him; or those, who, in confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
Página 371 - But who can paint Like Nature? Can imagination boast, Amid its gay creation, hues like hers ? Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, And lose them in each other, as appears In every bud that blows...
Página 221 - ... of these receptacles, walked about the streets till he was weary, and lay down in the summer upon a bulk, or in the winter, with his associates in poverty, among the ashes of a glass-house.
Página 365 - AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die...
Página 187 - Lord Tyrconnel, whatever were his motives, upon his promise to lay aside his design of exposing the cruelty of his mother, received him into his family, treated him as his equal, and engaged to allow him a pension of two hundred pounds a year.
Página 40 - Such were the life and death of Richard Savage, a man equally distinguished by his virtues and vices, and at once remarkable for his weaknesses and abilities.
Página 221 - Wanderer, the man of exalted sentiments, extensive views, and curious observations ; the man whose remarks on life might have assisted the statesman, whose ideas of virtue might have enlightened the moralist, whose eloquence might have influenced senates, and whose delicacy might have polished courts.