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... pendulum that vibrates a given number of times in the course of a solar or syderial day , or any portion of time accurately defined by some of the permanent phenomena of nature . The choice of the French mathematicians fell on the first ...
... pendulum that vibrates a given number of times in the course of a solar or syderial day , or any portion of time accurately defined by some of the permanent phenomena of nature . The choice of the French mathematicians fell on the first ...
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... pendulum , as is well known , affords the means of determining , not indeed the mag- nitude , but the figure of the earth ; that is , its compression at the Poles , or the oblateness of the spheroidal figure into which it is formed . At ...
... pendulum , as is well known , affords the means of determining , not indeed the mag- nitude , but the figure of the earth ; that is , its compression at the Poles , or the oblateness of the spheroidal figure into which it is formed . At ...
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... pendulum and the metre ; and a number of experiments for that purpose were made by BORDA and CASSINI , with every precaution that could ensure exactness . After quiet was restored to Europe , England had leisure to attend to other ...
... pendulum and the metre ; and a number of experiments for that purpose were made by BORDA and CASSINI , with every precaution that could ensure exactness . After quiet was restored to Europe , England had leisure to attend to other ...
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... pendulum may be accurately determined . The nature of the apparatus best fitted for that object is by no means obvious . The French Academicians , just referred to , had indeed employ- ed a very simple one , which seems capable of great ...
... pendulum may be accurately determined . The nature of the apparatus best fitted for that object is by no means obvious . The French Academicians , just referred to , had indeed employ- ed a very simple one , which seems capable of great ...
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... Pendulum , had demonstrated that the centres of suspension and oscillation are convertible with one another ; or that , if in any pendulum the centre of oscillation be made the centre of sus- pension , the time of vibration will be in ...
... Pendulum , had demonstrated that the centres of suspension and oscillation are convertible with one another ; or that , if in any pendulum the centre of oscillation be made the centre of sus- pension , the time of vibration will be in ...
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Página 116 - And I have loved thee, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward: from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Página 101 - The moon is up, and yet it is not night; Sunset divides the sky with her; a sea Of glory streams along the Alpine height Of blue Friuli's mountains; Heaven is free From clouds, but of all colours seems to be, — Melted to one vast Iris of the West, — Where the Day joins the past Eternity, While, on the other hand, meek Dian's crest Floats through the azure air — an island of the blest!
Página 115 - Dark-heaving — boundless, endless and sublime, The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible ; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Página 107 - And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again Returns in an unceasing shower, which round, With its unemptied cloud of gentle rain, Is an eternal April to the ground, Making it all one emerald; — how profound The gulf! and how the giant element From rock to rock leaps with delirious bound, Crushing the cliffs, which, downward worn and rent With his fierce footsteps, yield in chasms a fearful vent...
Página 107 - The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set, LXX.
Página 192 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Página 115 - The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. His steps are not upon thy paths, — thy fields Are not a spoil for him...
Página 114 - It will not bear the brightness of the day, Which streams too much on all years, man, have reft away.
Página 116 - Ye ! who have traced the Pilgrim to the scene Which is his last, if in your memories dwell A thought which once was his, if on ye swell...
Página 109 - Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers: dost thou flow, Old Tiber! through a marble wilderness? Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress.