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, Paternoster-Row., 1795 - 251 страници |
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... first containing an Abridgment of Na- tural History , the second representing the present state of Electricity ; a fcience almost entirely new , and totally unknown to the ancients ; and which , though it had fo long escaped the ...
... first containing an Abridgment of Na- tural History , the second representing the present state of Electricity ; a fcience almost entirely new , and totally unknown to the ancients ; and which , though it had fo long escaped the ...
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... . 2. To whom was the title of theologian first given ? A. TO ST . JOHN , who has by that name been diftinguished from the other three Evangelifts , be- caufe cause they only wrote the hiftory of the life of 6 AN ABRIDGMENT OF THE.
... . 2. To whom was the title of theologian first given ? A. TO ST . JOHN , who has by that name been diftinguished from the other three Evangelifts , be- caufe cause they only wrote the hiftory of the life of 6 AN ABRIDGMENT OF THE.
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... first place , he fays , that in the earthquake which happened at Lon- don , on the 20th of September , 1750 , and which affected an extent of country 30 miles in diameter , had it arifen from a fubterraneous explofion , it must have ...
... first place , he fays , that in the earthquake which happened at Lon- don , on the 20th of September , 1750 , and which affected an extent of country 30 miles in diameter , had it arifen from a fubterraneous explofion , it must have ...
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... first saw a perfon read from a book , believed that the paper spoke . We are told that an Indian flave , being fent by his master with a basket of figs and a letter to a gentle- * From Alpha , Beta , the two firft Greek letters ...
... first saw a perfon read from a book , believed that the paper spoke . We are told that an Indian flave , being fent by his master with a basket of figs and a letter to a gentle- * From Alpha , Beta , the two firft Greek letters ...
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... first hid the letter under a large stone ; moft firmly believing , that if it did not see him eat the figs , it could not poffibly be a witness against him . But the poor miferable , wretch , accused more than ever , confeffed the crime ...
... first hid the letter under a large stone ; moft firmly believing , that if it did not see him eat the figs , it could not poffibly be a witness against him . But the poor miferable , wretch , accused more than ever , confeffed the crime ...
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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 46 - The scourge and ruin of my realm and race : Suppliant my children's murderer to implore, And kiss those hands yet reeking with their gore '.' These words soft pity in the chief inspire, Touch'd with the dear remembrance of his sire.
Страница 221 - ... the weight of a column of water 33 feet high is equal to the weight of as thick a column of air, reaching from the furface of the earth to the top of the atmofphere...
Страница 210 - Set a lighted candle upon the pump, and cover it with a tall receiver. If the receiver holds a gallon, the candle will burn a minute ; and, then, after having gradually decayed from the first...
Страница 5 - A taste of every sort of knowledge is necessary to form the mind, and is the only way to give the understanding its due improvement to the full extent of its capacity.
Страница 145 - It is near six inches in length from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, the former being about half an inch, and the latter two inches and a half.
Страница 241 - 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 85 - Many of these running down by the valleys between the ridges of the hills, and coming to unite, form little rivulets or brooks; many of...
Страница 212 - ... the air. An artificial earthquake may be made thus. Take 10 or 15 pounds of fulphur, and as much of the filings of iron, and knead them with common water into the...
Страница 114 - 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.