Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Enlarged and Improved, Τόμος 2Archibald Constable, 1824 |
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Σελίδα 73
... feet , but he had remarked , that if a pump is more than thirty - three feet in length , a vacuum will be left in it . Torricelli , reflecting on this , conceived , that if a heavier fluid than water were used , a vacuum might be ...
... feet , but he had remarked , that if a pump is more than thirty - three feet in length , a vacuum will be left in it . Torricelli , reflecting on this , conceived , that if a heavier fluid than water were used , a vacuum might be ...
Σελίδα 107
... feet English , or 57,800 toises . This has been found to be a near approxima- tion ; yet his method was not capable of great accuracy , nor did he always execute it in the best manner . " Sometimes , " says he , " I measured , sometimes ...
... feet English , or 57,800 toises . This has been found to be a near approxima- tion ; yet his method was not capable of great accuracy , nor did he always execute it in the best manner . " Sometimes , " says he , " I measured , sometimes ...
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... feet thick , and 200 fathoms long , resting on sandstone . Australasia . height of 150 feet , with a girth near the base of from 25 to 40 feet . " Of this magnificent genus there are 50 different species within the limits of the colony ...
... feet thick , and 200 fathoms long , resting on sandstone . Australasia . height of 150 feet , with a girth near the base of from 25 to 40 feet . " Of this magnificent genus there are 50 different species within the limits of the colony ...
Σελίδα 11
... feet in length , and was formed out of a single tree . The two large Islands , and the whole group , in fact , were nearly covered with wood , and thick cocoa - nut groves skirted all the low parts of Australasia . the coast ...
... feet in length , and was formed out of a single tree . The two large Islands , and the whole group , in fact , were nearly covered with wood , and thick cocoa - nut groves skirted all the low parts of Australasia . the coast ...
Σελίδα 15
... feet in girt , and 90 feet high , without a branch . Some of them resembled spruce , and were " large enough for the mainmast of a 50 gun ship . " The highest hills were covered with forests , the valleys with grass and shrubbery , and ...
... feet in girt , and 90 feet high , without a branch . Some of them resembled spruce , and were " large enough for the mainmast of a 50 gun ship . " The highest hills were covered with forests , the valleys with grass and shrubbery , and ...
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Σελίδα 78 - Rather admire ; or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide. Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric' scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb...
Σελίδα 173 - ... of a Turkey carpet. It is sympathy with the present or the past, or the imaginary inhabitants of such a region, that alone gives it either interest or beauty; and the delight of those who behold it, will always be found to be in exact proportion to the force of their imaginations, and the warmth of their social affections. The leading impressions, here, are those of romantic seclusion, and primeval simplicity; lovers sequestered in these blissful solitudes, " from towns and toils remote...
Σελίδα 74 - The gold and silver money which circulates in any country may very properly be compared to a highway, which, while it circulates and carries to market all the grass and corn of the country, produces itself not a single pile of either.
Σελίδα 10 - It seems to me, that when the animalcules, which form the corals at the bottom of the ocean, cease to live, their structures adhere to each other, by virtue either of the glutinous remains within, or of some property in salt water; and the interstices being gradually filled up with sand and broken pieces of coral washed by the sea, which also adhere, a mass of rock is at length formed. Future races of these animalcules erect their habitations upon the rising bank, and die in their turn to increase,...
Σελίδα 26 - As things are at present conducted," he adds, " a sudden transition is made from sensible objects and particular facts to general propositions, which are accounted principles, and round which, as round so many fixed poles, disputation and argument continually revolve. From the propositions thus hastily assumed, all things are derived by a process compendious and precipitate ; ill suited to discovery, but wonderfully accommodated to debate. The way that promises success is the reverse of this. It...
Σελίδα 178 - In so far as mere feeling and enjoyment are concerned, therefore, it seems evident that the best taste must be that which belongs to the best affections, the most active fancy, and the most attentive habits of observation. It will follow pretty exactly too, that all men's perceptions of beauty will be nearly in proportion to the degree of their sensibility and social sympathies...
Σελίδα 175 - And what is it that constitutes that emotion of sublime delight, which every man of common sensibility feels upon the first prospect of Rome ? It is not the scene of destruction which is before him.
Σελίδα 179 - As all men must have some peculiar associations, all men must have some peculiar notions of beauty, and, of course, to a certain extent, a taste that the public would be entitled to consider as false or vitiated.
Σελίδα 175 - ... ordinary mortals, just because he perceives more of these analogies and relations to social emotion, in which all beauty consists; so other men see more or less of this beauty, exactly as they happen to possess that fancy, or those habits, which enable them readily to trace out these relations. From all these sources of evidence, then, we think it is pretty well made out, that the beauty or sublimity of external objects is nothing but the reflection of emotions excited by the feelings or condition...
Σελίδα 43 - ... throughout all civilized countries. Princes on whose will there were no legal checks, thus found a moral restraint which the most powerful of them could not brave with absolute impunity. They acted before a vast audience, to whose applause or condemnation they could not be utterly indifferent. The very constitution of human nature, the unalterable laws of the mind of man, against which all rebellion is fruitless, subjected the proudest tyrants to this control. No elevation of power, no depravity,...