Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, Τόμος 15John Brown, 1816 |
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Σελίδα 18
... crystals are harder than coloured glaffes , but fofter than gems . The loadfione difcovers the prefence of iron , when it is not mixed in too fmail a quantity in the stone , and often before the itone is roafted . Some kinds of ...
... crystals are harder than coloured glaffes , but fofter than gems . The loadfione difcovers the prefence of iron , when it is not mixed in too fmail a quantity in the stone , and often before the itone is roafted . Some kinds of ...
Σελίδα 28
... crystal Defcription and Arrangement of Minerals we are called faces ; the sharp line formed by the in- have yet met with , are thofe of the ingenious Dr clination of two faces is called an edge ; and the THOMAS THOMSON of Edinburgh ...
... crystal Defcription and Arrangement of Minerals we are called faces ; the sharp line formed by the in- have yet met with , are thofe of the ingenious Dr clination of two faces is called an edge ; and the THOMAS THOMSON of Edinburgh ...
Σελίδα 32
... crystals in a crucible to a red heat , till the nitric acid is driven off . Strontian may be obtained from the fulphat by the process de- fcribed for obtaining barytes . " See CHEMISTRY , Index ... " Strontian thus obtained is in porous ...
... crystals in a crucible to a red heat , till the nitric acid is driven off . Strontian may be obtained from the fulphat by the process de- fcribed for obtaining barytes . " See CHEMISTRY , Index ... " Strontian thus obtained is in porous ...
Σελίδα 33
... CRYSTAL . Very often it is in the form of fand . As this stone , and others which resemble it , as flint , agate , chalce- dony , & c . have the property of melting into a glafs , when heated along with fixed alkali , they were claffed ...
... CRYSTAL . Very often it is in the form of fand . As this stone , and others which resemble it , as flint , agate , chalce- dony , & c . have the property of melting into a glafs , when heated along with fixed alkali , they were claffed ...
Σελίδα 34
... Crystals of it are found in many parts of the world , named rock cryftals . " ( See CRYSTAL , $ 3-7 . ) " When pure , they are transparent and colourlefs : they affume various forms ; the most ufual is a hexagonal prifm furmounted with ...
... Crystals of it are found in many parts of the world , named rock cryftals . " ( See CRYSTAL , $ 3-7 . ) " When pure , they are transparent and colourlefs : they affume various forms ; the most ufual is a hexagonal prifm furmounted with ...
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Σελίδα 113 - A crime, or misdemeanor, is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it.
Σελίδα 355 - You may as well go stand upon the beach, And bid the main flood bate his usual height ; You may as well use question with the wolf, Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb ; You may as well forbid the mountain pines To wag their high tops, and to make no noise, When they are fretted with the gusts of heaven...
Σελίδα 302 - OF Man's firft difobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whofe mortal tafte Brought death into the world, and all our woe.
Σελίδα 133 - We do it wrong, being so majestical, To offer it the show of violence ; For it is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery.
Σελίδα 398 - To make the killing either murder or manslaughter, it is requisite that the party die within a year and a day after the stroke received or the cause of death administered; in the computation of which the whole of the day on which the act was done shall be reckoned the first.
Σελίδα 373 - Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me And after bite me, then like hedgehogs which Lie tumbling in my barefoot way and mount Their pricks at my footfall. Sometime am I All wound with adders who with cloven tongues Do hiss me into madness.
Σελίδα 313 - But, besides this general licence from the king, as lord paramount of the kingdom, it was also requisite, whenever there was a mesne or intermediate lord between the king and the alienor, to obtain his licence also (upon the same feudal principles), for the alienation of the specific land.
Σελίδα 311 - But, so long as it continues conditional, that is, between the time of lending the money and the time allotted for payment, the mortgagee is called tenant in mortgage.
Σελίδα 398 - To kill a child in its mother's womb is now no murder, but a great misprision : but if the child be born alive and dieth by reason of the potion or bruises it received in the womb, it seems by the better opinion to be murder in such as administered or gave them.
Σελίδα 315 - ... within six months previous to the donor's death), and unless such gift be made to take effect immediately, and be without power of revocation: and that all other ¡gifts shall be void...