Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Nide 2,Osa 1Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Sivu 2
... itself . ANGLE of Refraction now generally means the angle which a ray of light , refracted by any medium , makes with a perpendicular to that point of the furface on which it was incident ; but has fometimes been under- flood of the ...
... itself . ANGLE of Refraction now generally means the angle which a ray of light , refracted by any medium , makes with a perpendicular to that point of the furface on which it was incident ; but has fometimes been under- flood of the ...
Sivu 6
... itself is fometimes broken , or the line nearer its upperend . Deep waters are beft for angling in , for the fish do not love to be disturbed by wind and weather . The Angling The openings of fluices and mill - dams always ANG ANG [ 6 ]
... itself is fometimes broken , or the line nearer its upperend . Deep waters are beft for angling in , for the fish do not love to be disturbed by wind and weather . The Angling The openings of fluices and mill - dams always ANG ANG [ 6 ]
Sivu 16
... itself into the Atlantic ocean about Latitude 9 ° 20. S. twelve leagues fouth of Loando the capital of the kingdom . It is navigable for 150 miles , and abounds with variety of fish . It forms feveral islands , has fome cataracts , and ...
... itself into the Atlantic ocean about Latitude 9 ° 20. S. twelve leagues fouth of Loando the capital of the kingdom . It is navigable for 150 miles , and abounds with variety of fish . It forms feveral islands , has fome cataracts , and ...
Sivu 20
... itself into the fea . Several beautiful small islands too , which are washed by its current , diversify the fcenery , and greatly heighten the beauty of the profpect . This fettlement fupplies our East - India Company with pepper ; and ...
... itself into the fea . Several beautiful small islands too , which are washed by its current , diversify the fcenery , and greatly heighten the beauty of the profpect . This fettlement fupplies our East - India Company with pepper ; and ...
Sivu 21
... itself , by virtue whereof various kinds of things were framed conformable to the divine ideas . ANIMA Saturni , a white powder obtained by pour- ing diftilled vinegar on litharge , of confiderable ute in enamelling . See ENAMEL ...
... itself , by virtue whereof various kinds of things were framed conformable to the divine ideas . ANIMA Saturni , a white powder obtained by pour- ing diftilled vinegar on litharge , of confiderable ute in enamelling . See ENAMEL ...
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Sivu 329 - I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart of a King, and of a King of England too...
Sivu 71 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
Sivu 377 - ... spontaneously; but if a man plants ten of them in his lifetime, which he may do in about an hour, he will as completely fulfil his duty to his own and future generations, as the native of our less temperate climate can do by ploughing in the cold of winter, and reaping in the summer's heat, as often as these seasons return...
Sivu 91 - ... in a bed of water. In order, however, to be more certain, we sent in a Levantine mariner, who, by the promise of a good reward, ventured, with a flambeau in his hand, into this narrow aperture.
Sivu 139 - ... being paid in proportion to the little work which he could execute, and paying in his turn for the materials which he might sometimes spoil through awkwardness and inexperience.
Sivu 141 - ), would have been by the rules of the common law disappropriated, had not a clause in those statutes intervened, to give them to the king in as ample a manner as the abbots, &c. formerly held the same, at the time of their dissolution.
Sivu 223 - I would call the SAXON architecture. But our Norman works had a very different original. When the Goths had conquered Spain, and the genial warmth of the climate, and the religion of the old inhabitants...
Sivu 215 - ... and that it is the more permanent, in proportion as it recedes the more from its natural colour. Prepared archil very readily gives out its colour to water, to volatile spirits, and to alcohol ; it is the substance principally made use of for colouring the spirits of thermometers.
Sivu 50 - An annuity for a long term of years, therefore, though its intrinsic value may be very nearly the same with that of a perpetual annuity, will not find nearly the same number of purchasers. The subscribers to a new loan, who mean generally to...
Sivu 91 - ... a table. Upon our egress from this amazing cavern, we perceived a Greek inscription upon a rock at the mouth, but so obliterated by time, that we could not read it distinctly.