 | Henry Kater, Dionysius Lardner - 1830 - 602 σελίδες
...resist the tendency of its body to persevere in the rapid motion it had acquired, is urged forward many yards before it is able to check its speed and...less fleet than a greyhound, will often escape it. In racing, the horses shoot far beyond the winningpost before their course can be arrested. CHAP. IV.... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1831 - 324 σελίδες
...resist the tendency of its body to persevere in the rapid motion it had acquired, is urged forward many yards before it is able to check its speed and...distance asunder when the pursuit is recommenced. H htI are a large and small ship sometimes seen sailing with the same velocity ? Because the sur(jtce... | |
 | John Timbs - 1831 - 302 σελίδες
...resist the tendency of its body to persevere in the rapid motion it had acquired, is urged forward many yards before it is able to check its speed and...distance asunder when the pursuit is recommenced. Why are a large and small ship sometimes seen sailing with the same velocity? Because the surface of... | |
 | John Timbs - 1832 - 314 σελίδες
...resist the tendency of its body to persevere in the rapid motion it had acquired, is urged forward many yards before it is able to check its speed and...distance asunder when the pursuit is recommenced. Why are a large and small ship sometimes seen sailing with ihe same velocity ? Because the surface... | |
 | John Timbs - 1832 - 362 σελίδες
...resist the tendency of its body to persevere in the rapid motion it had acquired, is urged forward many yards before it is able to check its speed and...distance asunder when the pursuit is recommenced. Why are a large and small ship sometimes seen sailing with the same velocity ? Because the surface... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1838 - 376 σελίδες
...resist the tendency of its body to persevere in the rapid motion it had acquired, is urged forward many yards before it is able to check its speed and...much less fleet than a greyhound, will often escape it.f 222. Although, on account of the numerous impediments to motion which exist on the surface of... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1846 - 580 σελίδες
...resist the tendency of its body to persevere in the rapid motion it had acquired, is urged forward many yards before it is able to check its speed and...less fleet than a greyhound, will often escape it. In racing, the horses shoot far beyond the winning-post before their course can be arrested. MATTER... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1846 - 614 σελίδες
...resist the tendency of its body to persevere in the rapid motion it had acquired, is urged forward many yards before it is able to check its speed and...pursuit. Meanwhile the hare is gaining ground in the ^her direction, so that the animals are at a very considerable distance asunder when the pursuit is... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1849 - 594 σελίδες
...its body to persevere the rapid motion it had acquired, is urged forward many yards before it is le to check its speed and return to the pursuit. Meanwhile the hare is gaing ground in the other direction, so that the animals are at a very considerae distance asunder... | |
 | Charles Robert Cross - 1873 - 182 σελίδες
...resist the tendency of its body to persevere in the rapid motion it had acquired, is urged forward many yards before it is able to check its speed and...the other direction, so that the animals are at a considerable distance asunder when the pursuit is recommenced. In this way a hare, though much less... | |
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... speed in pursuit. The hare doubles, that is, suddenly changes the direction of her course, and turns back at an oblique angle with the direction in which she had been running. The greyhound, unable to resist the tendency of its body to persevere in... 