The Cabinet of Arts: Or, General Instructor in Arts, Science, Trade, Practical Machinery, the Means of Preserving Human Life, and Political EconomyT. Kinnersley, 1817 - 859 páginas |
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... dissolve rapidly ; such are neutral salts dissolved in water , diluted acids and some neutral salts , snow or pounded ice , and some salts ; and a number of equal parts or degrees being reckoned downwards on the scale from O or zero ...
... dissolve rapidly ; such are neutral salts dissolved in water , diluted acids and some neutral salts , snow or pounded ice , and some salts ; and a number of equal parts or degrees being reckoned downwards on the scale from O or zero ...
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... dissolved into rain before they come down to the ground . When two or more layers or strata of clouds are seen moving in different direc- tions , rain generally follows . Many small clouds pretty high , and others appearing at the same ...
... dissolved into rain before they come down to the ground . When two or more layers or strata of clouds are seen moving in different direc- tions , rain generally follows . Many small clouds pretty high , and others appearing at the same ...
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... dissolved ) is dropped , and with cotton or a hare's foot , is spread all over the foil , until every part be touched by the mercury , which incorporates with it , forming what is called an amalgam . The plate of glass is then applied ...
... dissolved ) is dropped , and with cotton or a hare's foot , is spread all over the foil , until every part be touched by the mercury , which incorporates with it , forming what is called an amalgam . The plate of glass is then applied ...
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... dissolves it . If this compound be immediately poured out of the vessel in which it is melted , and soon after mixed with water , a part of the gold will be dissolved along with the sulphuret , while the rest remains in the state of a ...
... dissolves it . If this compound be immediately poured out of the vessel in which it is melted , and soon after mixed with water , a part of the gold will be dissolved along with the sulphuret , while the rest remains in the state of a ...
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... dissolved in alcohol Yellow oxyde of mercury Green oxyde of copper Acetite of copper Ditto crystallized Sulphurate of mercury Acetous acid Acetic acid Sulphate of copper iron zinc The common The operations and implements employed ' in ...
... dissolved in alcohol Yellow oxyde of mercury Green oxyde of copper Acetite of copper Ditto crystallized Sulphurate of mercury Acetous acid Acetic acid Sulphate of copper iron zinc The common The operations and implements employed ' in ...
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Página 97 - And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing : and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
Página 97 - None from henceforth shall use to multiply gold or silver, or use the craft of multiplication; and if any the same do, he shall incur the pain of felony.
Página 346 - For the works of nature are full of disproportion, and fall very short of the true standard of beauty. So that Phidias, when he formed his Jupiter, did not copy any object ever presented to his sight; but contemplated only that image which he had conceived in his mind from Homer's description.
Página 346 - Neither did this artist," says he, "when he carved the image of Jupiter or Minerva, set before him any one human figure, as a pattern, which he was to copy; but having a more perfect idea of beauty fixed in his mind, this he steadily contemplated, and to the imitation of this all his skill and labour were directed.
Página 303 - Michael Angelo's works have a strong, peculiar, and marked character: they seem to proceed from his own mind entirely, and that mind so rich and abundant, that he never needed, or seemed to disdain, to look abroad for foreign help. Raffaelle's materials are generally borrowed, though the noble structure is his own.
Página 71 - Thus Fullers and Dyers find black Cloths, of equal Thickness with white ones, and hung out equally wet, dry in the Sun much sooner than the white, being more readily heated by the Sun's Rays.
Página 327 - ... confused manner in which those collections have been laid up in his mind. The addition of other men's judgment is so far from weakening our own, as is the opinion of many, that it will fashion and consolidate those ideas of excellence which lay in embryo, feeble, ill-shaped, and confused...
Página 331 - When I observed an extraordinary effect of light and shade in any picture, I took a leaf of my pocket-book, and darkened every part of it in the same gradation of light and shade as the picture, leaving the white paper untouched to represent the light, and this without any attention to the subject, or to the drawing of the figures.
Página 313 - I reflect not without vanity, that these Discourses bear testimony of my admiration * Che Raffaelle non ebbe quest" arte da nutura, ma per lunyo studio. of that truly divine man, and I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of — MICHAEL ANGELO*.
Página 346 - ... of the art in which English artists are the most engaged, a variety, a fancy, and a dignity derived from the higher branches, which even those who professed them in a superior manner did not always preserve when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history and of the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits he appears not to be raised upon that platform, but to descend to it from a higher sphere. His paintings illustrate his lessons, and...