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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... equal to the ra- dius of the excavation of the mine , and the dia- meter of the whole lesser base is equal to the line of leaft refiftance ; and though these fuppofitions are not quite exact , yet the calculations of mines deduced from ...
... equal to the ra- dius of the excavation of the mine , and the dia- meter of the whole lesser base is equal to the line of leaft refiftance ; and though these fuppofitions are not quite exact , yet the calculations of mines deduced from ...
Σελίδα 32
... equal to the weight loft , and concluded that it must have loft fomething else . Recollecting that Dr Hales had proved that lime- ftone , during its folution in acids , emits a great quantity of air , he conjectured that this might be ...
... equal to the weight loft , and concluded that it must have loft fomething else . Recollecting that Dr Hales had proved that lime- ftone , during its folution in acids , emits a great quantity of air , he conjectured that this might be ...
Σελίδα 34
... equal quenti- ties . Equal parts of magnefia and filica melt into a white enamel , when expofed to the most violent heat which can be produced . There is a ftrong affinity between alumina and filica . When baked in 160 ° Wedg . they ...
... equal quenti- ties . Equal parts of magnefia and filica melt into a white enamel , when expofed to the most violent heat which can be produced . There is a ftrong affinity between alumina and filica . When baked in 160 ° Wedg . they ...
Σελίδα 43
... equal and fimilar trapezoids : fometimes the faces are 12 , 18 , 36 , 54 , and triangular , pen- tagonal , & c . " ( See Hauy , Jour . de Min . N ° xxvii . 185. ) The cryftals vary from the fize of a pin- head to that of an inch . The ...
... equal and fimilar trapezoids : fometimes the faces are 12 , 18 , 36 , 54 , and triangular , pen- tagonal , & c . " ( See Hauy , Jour . de Min . N ° xxvii . 185. ) The cryftals vary from the fize of a pin- head to that of an inch . The ...
Σελίδα 69
... equal rhombs . This dodecahedron may be mechanically divided into 4 equal rhomboidal parallelopipeds , and each of these into 6 tetrahedrons , whofe faces are equal ifofceles triangles . The figure of its inte- grant particles is the ...
... equal rhombs . This dodecahedron may be mechanically divided into 4 equal rhomboidal parallelopipeds , and each of these into 6 tetrahedrons , whofe faces are equal ifofceles triangles . The figure of its inte- grant particles is the ...
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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...