Pocket Encyclopedia: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Polite Literature, Volumen3Edward Augustus Kendall Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, 1811 |
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... circumference of the earth . With respect to its malleability , it is said that a book of twenty : tive leaves of gold , contains little more than four grains of the metal . > Foliated gold , held between the eyes and the light COL ...
... circumference of the earth . With respect to its malleability , it is said that a book of twenty : tive leaves of gold , contains little more than four grains of the metal . > Foliated gold , held between the eyes and the light COL ...
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... contains a spindle , upon which the glasses are vertically arranged , and which communicates by a string with the moveable step that gives it motion . The case stands on a neat frame with four legs . 6 * This instrument is played upon ...
... contains a spindle , upon which the glasses are vertically arranged , and which communicates by a string with the moveable step that gives it motion . The case stands on a neat frame with four legs . 6 * This instrument is played upon ...
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... containing from forty to eighty thousand eggs . The number of the ovens thus employed is computed at three hundred and eighty - six ; and they are usually worked for six months in each year . A brood takes up in an oven , as under a hen ...
... containing from forty to eighty thousand eggs . The number of the ovens thus employed is computed at three hundred and eighty - six ; and they are usually worked for six months in each year . A brood takes up in an oven , as under a hen ...
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... contains a certain quantity of heat , because no body is so cold that it cannot be made colder : but what quantity of heat exists in bodies has never been ascertained . Heat may be evolved , and made sensible , - by combustion , by ...
... contains a certain quantity of heat , because no body is so cold that it cannot be made colder : but what quantity of heat exists in bodies has never been ascertained . Heat may be evolved , and made sensible , - by combustion , by ...
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... containing more than twenty species , of which the most curious is the Helianthus gyrans , or moving plant , which is found in Bengal , and on the banks of the Ganges : it has a constant and voluntary motion , consisting in an alternate ...
... containing more than twenty species , of which the most curious is the Helianthus gyrans , or moving plant , which is found in Bengal , and on the banks of the Ganges : it has a constant and voluntary motion , consisting in an alternate ...
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Página 359 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by the law? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them? King or queen: All this I promise to do.
Página 45 - This is a high prerogative writ, and therefore by the common law issuing out of the court of king's bench not only in term-time, but also during the vacation, by a fiat from the chief justice or any other of the judges, and running into all parts of the king's dominions; for the king is at all times entitled to have an account, why the liberty of any of his subjects is restrained, wherever that restraint may be inflicted.
Página 319 - Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon.
Página 5 - A Proposition, is something which is either proposed to be done, or to be demonstrated, and is either a problem or a theorem.
Página 5 - A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line called the circumference, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre ; as ABD E.
Página 228 - But every man, when he enters into society, gives up a part of his natural liberty, as the price of so valuable a purchase ; and in consideration of receiving the advantages of mutual commerce, obliges himself to conform to those laws, which the community has thought proper to establish.
Página 361 - Odin is believed to have been the name of the one true god among the first colonies who came from the East, and peopled Germany and Scandinavia, and among their posterity for several ages.
Página 327 - The study of natural history, simple, beautiful, and instructive, consists in the collection, arrangement, and exhibition of the various productions of the earth.
Página 333 - Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Página 144 - An indictment is a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanor, preferred to, and presented upon oath by, a grand jury.