Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal dictionary of Knowledge, Volume 18 |
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... proportion de- pending on their quantities of matter , the larger po attracting more of it than the smaller ones , and thus forming an atmosphere about each . And may appearances warrant this fuppofition . Ju- ter , Mas , Saturn , and ...
... proportion de- pending on their quantities of matter , the larger po attracting more of it than the smaller ones , and thus forming an atmosphere about each . And may appearances warrant this fuppofition . Ju- ter , Mas , Saturn , and ...
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... proportion that the fub- tangent is increafed ; or , when the air is more ex- panded than the mercury , it will require a greater height of homogeneous atmosphere to balance 30 inches of mercury , and a given fall of mercury will then ...
... proportion that the fub- tangent is increafed ; or , when the air is more ex- panded than the mercury , it will require a greater height of homogeneous atmosphere to balance 30 inches of mercury , and a given fall of mercury will then ...
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... proportion to the capacity of the ball . This apparatus was fet in a long cylinder filled with frigorific mixtures or with water , which could be uniformly heated up to the boiling tem- perature , and was accompanied by a nice ther ...
... proportion to the capacity of the ball . This apparatus was fet in a long cylinder filled with frigorific mixtures or with water , which could be uniformly heated up to the boiling tem- perature , and was accompanied by a nice ther ...
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... proportion with the density takyt ?, ' s ! vonded on a gratuitous iuppofition , of the mercury ; and the elevation corretponding 15 ! 5 noc intermediate atratum expan's a . to one roih of an inch of barometric height will , ard that the ...
... proportion with the density takyt ?, ' s ! vonded on a gratuitous iuppofition , of the mercury ; and the elevation corretponding 15 ! 5 noc intermediate atratum expan's a . to one roih of an inch of barometric height will , ard that the ...
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... proportion with the denfity of the mercury ; and the elevation correfponding to one roth of an inch of barometric height will change in the fame proportion . We must be con- tented with the remaining imperfections . For any purpose that ...
... proportion with the denfity of the mercury ; and the elevation correfponding to one roth of an inch of barometric height will change in the fame proportion . We must be con- tented with the remaining imperfections . For any purpose that ...
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Page 333 - The writ upon which all proceedings here are grounded is called a quo minus : in which the plaintiff suggests that he is the king's farmer or debtor, and that the defendant hath done him the injury or damage complained of; quo minus sufficient j existit, by which he is the less able to pay the king his debt \ or rent.
Page 48 - The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heav'n to earth, from earth to heav'n; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Page 236 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. Duch. Alas ! poor Richard ! where rides he the while ? York. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...
Page 276 - He may reject what bills, may make what treaties, may coin what money, may create what peers, may pardon what offences, he pleases...
Page 339 - Power also is another of those simple ideas which we receive from sensation and reflection. For, observing in ourselves that we do and can think, and that we can at pleasure move several parts of our bodies which were at rest; the effects also that natural bodies are able to produce in one another occurring every moment to our senses, we both these ways get the idea of power.
Page 214 - Nature thefe cates with fuch a lavifh hand Pours out among them, that our coarfer land Taftes of that bounty ; and does cloth return, Which not for warmth, but ornament, is worn : For the kind fpring, which but falutes us here, Inhabits there, and courts them all the year : Ripe fruits, and...
Page 274 - prerogative' we usually understand that special pre-eminence, which the king hath over and above all other persons, and out of the ordinary course of the common law, in right of his regal dignity. It signifies, in its etymology (from prae and rogo), something that is required or demanded before, or in preference to all others.
Page 224 - Not thinking it is levee-day; And find his honour in a pound, Hemm'd by a triple circle round. Chequer'd with ribbons blue and green, How should I thrust myself between?
Page 121 - ... and flowers, and holding up a wheel in his left, and his coat tied with a long girdle. His standing on the sharp fins of this fish signified to the Saxons that by worshipping him they should pass through all dangers unhurt : by his girdle flying both ways was...
Page 222 - It is not uncommon, I have been frequently told, in the Highlands of Scotland for a mother who has borne twenty children not to have two alive.