Encyclopædia Britannica: or, A dictionary of arts and sciences, compiled by a society of gentlemen in Scotland [ed. by W. Smellie]. Suppl. to the 3rd. ed., by G. Gleig, Volumen6 |
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Página 208
... margin . 5 ) 33 ( 6 } Such is the calculation of ordinary watches , to fhow the hour of the day : 17 in fuch as how minutes , and feconds , the procefs is thus : 1. Having refolved on the beats in an hour ; by di- viding the defigned ...
... margin . 5 ) 33 ( 6 } Such is the calculation of ordinary watches , to fhow the hour of the day : 17 in fuch as how minutes , and feconds , the procefs is thus : 1. Having refolved on the beats in an hour ; by di- viding the defigned ...
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... margin or brim of the leaf , in fome fpe- cies of box , honeyfuckle , ground - ivy , and the ever- green oak , is of a filver - white colour . The whole plant is often found to affume a colour that is unnatural or foreign to it . The ...
... margin or brim of the leaf , in fome fpe- cies of box , honeyfuckle , ground - ivy , and the ever- green oak , is of a filver - white colour . The whole plant is often found to affume a colour that is unnatural or foreign to it . The ...
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... margin , and indenting all the other fubfervient lines , that the head may stand out and show itself ; this done , I enter the page where it is written , viz . 2 , in the index in the fpace Be ; from which time the clafs be becomes ...
... margin , and indenting all the other fubfervient lines , that the head may stand out and show itself ; this done , I enter the page where it is written , viz . 2 , in the index in the fpace Be ; from which time the clafs be becomes ...
Página 361
... margin , and fhall be here illuftra- ted by examples . The firft is a comparison built upon a refemblance so obvious as to make little or no im- preffion . Speaking of the fallen angels fearching for mines of gold : A numerous brigade ...
... margin , and fhall be here illuftra- ted by examples . The firft is a comparison built upon a refemblance so obvious as to make little or no im- preffion . Speaking of the fallen angels fearching for mines of gold : A numerous brigade ...
Página 369
... margin , which not only adds to its weight , but from its horizontal pofi- tion tends to keep the centre of gravity in every fitua- tion of the compafs , nearly coinciding with the centre of fufpenfion . The cavity in which the needle ...
... margin , which not only adds to its weight , but from its horizontal pofi- tion tends to keep the centre of gravity in every fitua- tion of the compafs , nearly coinciding with the centre of fufpenfion . The cavity in which the needle ...
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Página 361 - Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
Página 362 - Like night, and darken'd all the land of Nile: So numberless were those bad Angels seen Hovering on wing under the cope of Hell...
Página 338 - The directors of such companies, however, being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own.
Página 250 - Space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them ; and that these primitive Particles being Solids, are incomparably harder than any porous Bodies compounded of them ; even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary Power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first Creation.
Página 185 - A Journal from Grand Cairo to Mount Sinai and back again, translated from a manuscript written by the Prefetto of Egypt, in company with some missionaries de propaganda fide, at Grand Cairo: To which are added, Remarks on the Origin of Hieroglyphics, and the Mythology of the ancient Heathens.
Página 338 - ... the governor and company of the Bank of England, or by the governor and company of merchants of Great Britain trading to the South Seas and other parts of America...
Página 360 - Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.
Página 362 - But sorrow wastes the mournful, O daughter of Toscar ! and their days are few! They fall away, like the flower on which the sun hath looked in his strength after the mildew has passed over it, when its head is heavy with the drops of night.
Página 272 - They have a governor named by the king (or in some proprietary colonies by the proprietor), who is his representative or deputy. They have courts of justice of their own, from whose decisions an appeal lies to the king and council here in England.
Página 18 - God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.