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... sometimes it forms the arc of a circle . The parts of a pediment are , 1. the tym- panum ; 2. the cornice , which crowns it ; and 3 . the entablature , which serves it as a base or scale . The most beautiful proportions of the pediment ...
... sometimes it forms the arc of a circle . The parts of a pediment are , 1. the tym- panum ; 2. the cornice , which crowns it ; and 3 . the entablature , which serves it as a base or scale . The most beautiful proportions of the pediment ...
Σελίδα 3
... sometimes entertain against each other , is almost wholly on the side of the com- monalty . If a mercantile question occur , a special jury of merchants , the precise peers in the case , may be required ; but if a commoner sue a lord ...
... sometimes entertain against each other , is almost wholly on the side of the com- monalty . If a mercantile question occur , a special jury of merchants , the precise peers in the case , may be required ; but if a commoner sue a lord ...
Σελίδα 6
... sometimes of the weight of 25lh . and the width between the extreme points of the wings , of fifteen feet . The skin between the sides of the upper mandible is extremely dila- table , and capable of containing many quarts of water . The ...
... sometimes of the weight of 25lh . and the width between the extreme points of the wings , of fifteen feet . The skin between the sides of the upper mandible is extremely dila- table , and capable of containing many quarts of water . The ...
Σελίδα 30
... sometimes on the surface of lakes . Maltha is softer , has a degree of tenacity , and a strong bituminous smell . Petroleum is semi - liquid ; semi - transparent ; of a reddish brown colour , and fetid odour . Naptha is of a lighter ...
... sometimes on the surface of lakes . Maltha is softer , has a degree of tenacity , and a strong bituminous smell . Petroleum is semi - liquid ; semi - transparent ; of a reddish brown colour , and fetid odour . Naptha is of a lighter ...
Σελίδα 31
... Thames ; many thousands are caught in the year , sometimes as many as half a million , which are exported for the Dutch cod and turbot fishery at the rate of about 40 shillings a thousand . These fishes wil live PET $ 1.
... Thames ; many thousands are caught in the year , sometimes as many as half a million , which are exported for the Dutch cod and turbot fishery at the rate of about 40 shillings a thousand . These fishes wil live PET $ 1.
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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.