The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Parte 1,Volumen 21Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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... round the largest axis , the spheroid is called prolate ; and when round the shortest , oblate . This last is the figure of the earth , and probably of all the planets . To obtain the solid dimensions of a spheroid , multiply ...
... round the largest axis , the spheroid is called prolate ; and when round the shortest , oblate . This last is the figure of the earth , and probably of all the planets . To obtain the solid dimensions of a spheroid , multiply ...
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... round my room : While I thy curious fabrick stare at , And think on hapless poet's fate , Like thee confined to noisome garret , And rudely banished rooms of state . Shakspeare . Drayton . Lit❜leton . The spider's touch how exquisitely ...
... round my room : While I thy curious fabrick stare at , And think on hapless poet's fate , Like thee confined to noisome garret , And rudely banished rooms of state . Shakspeare . Drayton . Lit❜leton . The spider's touch how exquisitely ...
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... round On which the fate of gods and men is wound . Milton . A practised spinner shall spin a pound of wool worth two shillings for sixpence . Graunt . We can fling our legs and arms upwards and downwards , backwards , forwards , and round ...
... round On which the fate of gods and men is wound . Milton . A practised spinner shall spin a pound of wool worth two shillings for sixpence . Graunt . We can fling our legs and arms upwards and downwards , backwards , forwards , and round ...
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... round , and then the wire - eyes being regularly curved , and raised up again by the motion of an elliptic wheel which is turned round by the machine , they distribute the yarn regularly upon the bob- bins or quills , and prevent it ...
... round , and then the wire - eyes being regularly curved , and raised up again by the motion of an elliptic wheel which is turned round by the machine , they distribute the yarn regularly upon the bob- bins or quills , and prevent it ...
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... round him , spirt the bitter sea . Dryden . When rains the passage hide , Oft the loose stones spirt up a muddy tide Beneath thy careless foot . Gay . The terraqueous globe would , by the centrifugal force of that motion , be soon ...
... round him , spirt the bitter sea . Dryden . When rains the passage hide , Oft the loose stones spirt up a muddy tide Beneath thy careless foot . Gay . The terraqueous globe would , by the centrifugal force of that motion , be soon ...
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Página 342 - Religion agreed upon by the Archbishops and Bishops of both provinces, and the whole Clergy in the Convocation holden at London, in the year of our Lord...
Página 284 - O could I flow like thee ! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ; Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.
Página 79 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same...
Página 13 - Per substantiam intelligo id, quod in se est et per se concipitur; hoc est id, cujus conceptus non indiget conceptu alterius rei, a quo formari debeat.
Página 320 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Página 116 - 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 343 - Now Jove suspends his golden scales in air, Weighs the men's wits against the lady's hair: The doubtful beam long nods from side to side; At length the wits mount up, the hairs subside. See fierce Belinda on the baron flies, With more than usual lightning in her eyes: Nor fear'd the chief th' unequal fight to try, Who sought no more than on his foe to die.
Página 9 - But whether thus these things, or whether not; Whether the sun, predominant in heaven, Rise on the earth ; or earth rise on the sun • He from the east his flaming road begin; Or she from west her silent course advance, With inoffensive pace that spinning sleeps On her soft axle, while she paces even, And bears thee soft with the smooth air along; Solicit not thy thoughts with matters hid; Leave them to God above.
Página 144 - I use two steam vessels in which the steam is to act, and which in other steam engines are called cylinders. Secondly, — I employ the steam after it has acted in the first vessel to operate a second time in the other, by permitting it to expand itself, which I do by connecting the vessels together and forming proper channels and apertures, whereby the steam shall, occasionally, go in and out of the said vessels.
Página 224 - ... that upon the trial of any peer or peeress either for treason or misprision all the peers who have a right to sit and vote in Parliament...