A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature and Practical Mechanics: Comprising a Popular View of the Present State of Knowledge : Illustrated by Numerous Engravings, a General Atlas, and Appropriate Diagrams, Том 11Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 |
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... heat and cold , but the air is ge- nerally pure and salubrious . Morning and evening fires become necessary from about the middle of September . Cattle are housed from the beginning of November ; and in the course of this month the ...
... heat and cold , but the air is ge- nerally pure and salubrious . Morning and evening fires become necessary from about the middle of September . Cattle are housed from the beginning of November ; and in the course of this month the ...
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... heat . This is confirmed by observing , that there is an inter- mediate state betwixt hardness and fluidity , in which bodies will yield to a certain force , though they still make a considerable resistance . This is principally ...
... heat . This is confirmed by observing , that there is an inter- mediate state betwixt hardness and fluidity , in which bodies will yield to a certain force , though they still make a considerable resistance . This is principally ...
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... heat as well as cold . Mr. Quist and others have constructed tables of the hardness of different substances . The method pursued in constructing these tables was , by observing the order in which they were able to cut or make any ...
... heat as well as cold . Mr. Quist and others have constructed tables of the hardness of different substances . The method pursued in constructing these tables was , by observing the order in which they were able to cut or make any ...
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... heat , should harm them . Ray . Secure and free they pass their harmless hours , Gay as the birds that revel in the grove And sing the morning up . Tate's Loyal General Compare the harmlessness , the credulity , the tender- ness , the ...
... heat , should harm them . Ray . Secure and free they pass their harmless hours , Gay as the birds that revel in the grove And sing the morning up . Tate's Loyal General Compare the harmlessness , the credulity , the tender- ness , the ...
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... heat on the skin . If the harmattan continues four or five days , the scarf- skin peels off , first from the hands and face , and afterwards from the other parts of the body , if it continues a day or two longer . Those laboring under ...
... heat on the skin . If the harmattan continues four or five days , the scarf- skin peels off , first from the hands and face , and afterwards from the other parts of the body , if it continues a day or two longer . Those laboring under ...
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Страница 389 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise; which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill and dale and plain...
Страница 121 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime 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.
Страница 124 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Страница 357 - Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death.bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their beams unshorn : Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien.
Страница 24 - One cried, God bless us ! and, Amen, the other ; As they had seen me, with these hangman's hands, Listening their fear. I could not say, amen, When they did say, God bless us.
Страница 33 - Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Страница 189 - Veritate; if it be for Thy glory, I beseech Thee give me some sign from heaven ; if not, I shall suppress it.
Страница 122 - All heaven and earth are still — though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most ; And silent, as we stand in thoughts too deep.
Страница 80 - Poured through the mellow horn her pensive soul : And, dashing soft from rocks around, Bubbling runnels joined the sound ; Through glades and glooms the mingled measure stole, Or, o'er some haunted stream, with fond delay, Round an holy calm diffusing, Love of peace, and lonely musing, In hollow murmurs died away.
Страница 391 - Kent ; painter enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opinionative enougli to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to strike out a great system from the twilight of imperfect essays. He leaped the fence, and saw that all nature was a garden.