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... extremely dila- table , and capable of containing many quarts of water . The skin is often used by sailors for tobacco pouches , and has been occasionally converted into elegant ladies ' work - bags . These birds are very numerous about ...
... extremely dila- table , and capable of containing many quarts of water . The skin is often used by sailors for tobacco pouches , and has been occasionally converted into elegant ladies ' work - bags . These birds are very numerous about ...
Σελίδα 30
... extremely subtile and penetrating fluid , of the bituminous kind , found in rivers , in wells , and trickling down the sides of hills , along with little streams of water . The substances which mineralogists have distin- guished by the ...
... extremely subtile and penetrating fluid , of the bituminous kind , found in rivers , in wells , and trickling down the sides of hills , along with little streams of water . The substances which mineralogists have distin- guished by the ...
Σελίδα 114
... extremely firm and compact structure , remark- ably heavy , and of a fine strong purple , variegated more or less with pale red , and white . The hard- ness of porphyry is so extreme that it is not cut without the greatest difficulty ...
... extremely firm and compact structure , remark- ably heavy , and of a fine strong purple , variegated more or less with pale red , and white . The hard- ness of porphyry is so extreme that it is not cut without the greatest difficulty ...
Σελίδα 135
... be rendered extremely visible . PYROPHORUS , in chemistry , a compound sub- stauce , which takes fire on the admission of the atmospheric air : it is prepared by exposing to heat in an iron pot , three parts of alum , PYR 135.
... be rendered extremely visible . PYROPHORUS , in chemistry , a compound sub- stauce , which takes fire on the admission of the atmospheric air : it is prepared by exposing to heat in an iron pot , three parts of alum , PYR 135.
Σελίδα 147
Edward Augustus Kendall J J. countries in Europe : the animals of this species are extremely voracious , and will occasionally seize small birds , and chickens and ducks . They are in some countries much used as food , particularly in ...
Edward Augustus Kendall J J. countries in Europe : the animals of this species are extremely voracious , and will occasionally seize small birds , and chickens and ducks . They are in some countries much used as food , particularly in ...
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Σελίδα 40 - By this way of analysis we may proceed from compounds to ingredients; and from motions to the forces producing them; and in general, from effects to their causes; and from particular causes to more general ones, till the argument end in the most general.
Σελίδα 395 - Matthew then, among the Jews, wrote a gospel in their own language, while Peter and Paul were preaching the gospel at Rome, and founding a church there.
Σελίδα 40 - As in mathematics, so in natural philosophy, the investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis, ought ever to precede the method of composition. This analysis consists in making experiments and observations, and in drawing general conclusions from them by induction, and admitting of no objections against the conclusions, but such as are taken from experiments, or other certain truths. For hypotheses are not to be regarded in experimental philosophy.
Σελίδα 394 - Among these were reckoned the four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; the Acts of the Apostles; the Epistles of the apostle Paul...
Σελίδα 239 - The surface of a sphere is equal to four times the area of a circle...
Σελίδα 40 - And although the arguing from experiments and observations by induction be no demonstration of general conclusions, yet it is the best way of arguing which the nature of things admits of, and may be looked upon as so much the stronger, by how much the induction is more general.
Σελίδα 149 - When the whole is put for a part, or a part for the whole; a genus for a species, or a species for a genus; the singular...
Σελίδα 205 - He is likewise to decide the elections of knights of the shire, (subject to the control of the house of commons,) of coroners, and of verderors ; to judge of the qualification of voters, and to return such as he shall determine to be duly elected.
Σελίδα 35 - ... connected together in the fancy, that the idea of the one seems, of its own accord, to call up and introduce that of the other. If the objects are still observed to succeed each other as before, this connection, or, as it has been called, this association of...
Σελίδα 112 - Hottoman to be a rescript, or answer of the sovereign, delivered, by advice of his council, to some college, order, or body of people, upon consulting him on some case of their community. The like answer, given to any particular person, is called simply rescript.