An Easy Introduction to the Arts and Sciences:: Being a Short, But Comprehensive System of Useful and Polite Learning, Divided Into Lessons. Illustrated with Cuts, and Adapted to the Use of Schools and AcademiesS. Crowder, Pater-noster-Row., 1792 - 248 страници |
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... night , lofe by de- grees their agitation , and many uniting together , fall in the morning in small invisible particles , like an extremely fine and delicate rain , which con- tinues but a short time , and is seen in drops of water ...
... night , lofe by de- grees their agitation , and many uniting together , fall in the morning in small invisible particles , like an extremely fine and delicate rain , which con- tinues but a short time , and is seen in drops of water ...
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... night in the moonshine ; - what think you of them ? A. The lunar rainbow is formed exactly in the fame manner , by the bright beams of the moon . ftriking upon the bofom of a shower . 2. How do you account for that lucid ring we fee ...
... night in the moonshine ; - what think you of them ? A. The lunar rainbow is formed exactly in the fame manner , by the bright beams of the moon . ftriking upon the bofom of a shower . 2. How do you account for that lucid ring we fee ...
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... nights , it was only in the feventh month that the ark , which floated upon the waters , refted upon the mountains of Armenia ; and , in the tenth , that land began to appear . 2. What is a month ? A. A month is juft the time the moon ...
... nights , it was only in the feventh month that the ark , which floated upon the waters , refted upon the mountains of Armenia ; and , in the tenth , that land began to appear . 2. What is a month ? A. A month is juft the time the moon ...
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... night and day , properly fo called . 2. Is there no other divifion of the natural day ? A. Yes ; into morning , noon , evening , and midnight . 2. When do we begin the day ? A. The English , French , Dutch , Germans , Spaniards ...
... night and day , properly fo called . 2. Is there no other divifion of the natural day ? A. Yes ; into morning , noon , evening , and midnight . 2. When do we begin the day ? A. The English , French , Dutch , Germans , Spaniards ...
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... night equal . A. This happens twice every year , once on the 21ft of March , and again on the 21st of September . Both these times are called the equinoxes . 2. How do we call the light that appears be- fore the rifing and after the ...
... night equal . A. This happens twice every year , once on the 21ft of March , and again on the 21st of September . Both these times are called the equinoxes . 2. How do we call the light that appears be- fore the rifing and after the ...
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Страница 46 - As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Страница 137 - The great blue heron (Ardea herodias) is about four feet in length from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, and nearly six feet across the wings.
Страница 238 - Franklin, astonishing as it must have appeared, contrived actually to bring lightning from the heavens, by means of an electrical kite, which he raised when a storm of thunder was perceived to be coming on. This kite had a pointed wire fixed upon it, by which it drew the lightning from the clouds. This lightning...
Страница 239 - ... so that it would stream out plentifully from the key, at the approach of a person's finger. At this key he charged phials, and from electric fire thus obtained, he kindled spirits, and performed all other electrical experiments which are usually exhibited by an excited globe or tube.
Страница 110 - The soft murmurs of the waters are the sighs of the Naiads. A god impels the winds. A god pours out the rivers. Grapes are the gift of Bacchus. Ceres presides over the harvest. Orchards are the care of Pomona. Does a shepherd sound his reed on the summit of a mountain, it is Pan who with his...
Страница 215 - If a little water be poured into the tube upon the lead, it will increafe the weight upon the column of water under the lead, and caufe the lead to fall from the tube to the bottom of the glafs veflel, where it will lie in the fituation b d.
Страница 66 - Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November ; February twenty-eight alone, All the rest have thirty-one ; Except in Leap year, then is the time, When February has twenty-nine.
Страница 215 - AB, to the depth of fix inches below the furface of the water at K : and then the leaden bottom EFG will be plunged to the depth of fomewhat more than eleven times its own thicknefs : holding the tube at that depth, you may let go the thread at L, and the lead will not fall from the tube, but...
Страница 11 - ... will afcend towards the upper part of the atmofphere, and the adjacent air will rufh in to fupply its place ; and therefore, there will be a ftream or current of air from all parts towards the place where the heat is. And hence we fee the reafon why the air rufhes with fuch force into a glafs-houfe, or towards any place where a great fire is made.
Страница 111 - ... of men and gods : under his feet roll the thunders formed by the Cyclops in the cavern of Lemnos : his smile rejoices nature, and his nod shakes the foundation of Olympus.