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... triangles are usually employed , attached to a vertical stand , and capable of elevation or depression ( fig . 5 ) . Instru- ments of this kind can be procured ready made , but every experimenter possessed of moderate ingenuity can ...
... triangles are usually employed , attached to a vertical stand , and capable of elevation or depression ( fig . 5 ) . Instru- ments of this kind can be procured ready made , but every experimenter possessed of moderate ingenuity can ...
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... triangles of hoop iron , fig . 8 . Fig . 8 . in the brain or take flight just as best suits its own good plea- sure , it sticks there all the firmer . I always give collateral facts an option of this kind . To effect the union of ...
... triangles of hoop iron , fig . 8 . Fig . 8 . in the brain or take flight just as best suits its own good plea- sure , it sticks there all the firmer . I always give collateral facts an option of this kind . To effect the union of ...
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... triangle , such as is formed by the perpen dicular drawn through the right hand extre- mity of the larger division of the scale marked 1 , the diagonal line drawn from the same ex- tremity to the first subdivision on the left of the ...
... triangle , such as is formed by the perpen dicular drawn through the right hand extre- mity of the larger division of the scale marked 1 , the diagonal line drawn from the same ex- tremity to the first subdivision on the left of the ...
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... triangle is in the straight line joining the vertex to the middle of the base , at the distance of two - thirds of that line from the vertex . In homogeneous pyramids and cones , the centre of gravity is in the straight line joining the ...
... triangle is in the straight line joining the vertex to the middle of the base , at the distance of two - thirds of that line from the vertex . In homogeneous pyramids and cones , the centre of gravity is in the straight line joining the ...
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... triangle AEB to the triangle CEF , and the remaining angles of the one to the remaining angles of the other , each to each , viz . , those to which the equal sides are opposite . Wherefore the angle B A B is equal to the angle EC F. But ...
... triangle AEB to the triangle CEF , and the remaining angles of the one to the remaining angles of the other , each to each , viz . , those to which the equal sides are opposite . Wherefore the angle B A B is equal to the angle EC F. But ...
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Page 173 - It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion ;* for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered...
Page 366 - If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep...
Page 367 - Sometimes a distant sail gliding along the edge of the ocean would be another theme of idle speculation. How interesting this fragment of a world hastening to rejoin the great mass of existence! What a glorious monument of human invention, that has thus triumphed over wind and wave ; has brought the ends of the earth in communion ; has established an interchange of blessings, pouring...
Page 174 - For, after a long and manly, but vain struggle with his distemper, he dismissed his physicians, and with them all hopes of life : but with his hopes of life he dismissed not his concern for the living, but sent for a youth nearly related, and finely accomplished, yet not above being the better for good impressions from a dying friend.
Page 367 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand ? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight ? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain ? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw.
Page 219 - If two triangles have two sides of the one equal to two sides of the...
Page 366 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Page 174 - ... truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of principles. He has restored virtue to its dignity, and taught innocence not to be ashamed. This is an elevation of literary character "above all Greek, above all Roman fame.