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... engine , at a time when the steam - engine was scarcely known Polytechnique in 1794 , the year of its institution , and the on that side of the Channel ; but his empirical formulæ for same year he became directeur - général des Ponts et ...
... engine , at a time when the steam - engine was scarcely known Polytechnique in 1794 , the year of its institution , and the on that side of the Channel ; but his empirical formulæ for same year he became directeur - général des Ponts et ...
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... Engines erected at Paris , au upon him . The fourth book of his Elegies ' however con- Gros - Caillou , ' Par . 1826 , Svo . ; 22 , Fragments of an un- tains a series of poems on Roman legends , especially those edited Memoir , ' Lyon ...
... Engines erected at Paris , au upon him . The fourth book of his Elegies ' however con- Gros - Caillou , ' Par . 1826 , Svo . ; 22 , Fragments of an un- tains a series of poems on Roman legends , especially those edited Memoir , ' Lyon ...
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... engine we had for their capture . The least motion seemed to alarm them . We have observed a similar care in avoiding strange objects , when watching the shoals of a smaller species of Medusæ coming up with the tide in the river Hamble ...
... engine we had for their capture . The least motion seemed to alarm them . We have observed a similar care in avoiding strange objects , when watching the shoals of a smaller species of Medusæ coming up with the tide in the river Hamble ...
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... engines of eternal will , ' sung in the character of the love - distracted Cardenio , is , with the exception of the latter part ( now very wisely omitted in the performance ) , one of the composer's finest creations . He also wrote ...
... engines of eternal will , ' sung in the character of the love - distracted Cardenio , is , with the exception of the latter part ( now very wisely omitted in the performance ) , one of the composer's finest creations . He also wrote ...
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... engine , are drawn up an inclined plane ; and , from the summit of this plane , the stone is drawn by horses to the Menai . Vitruvius ( lib . x . , cap . 6 ) mentions with approbation the following contrivance , which he says was ...
... engine , are drawn up an inclined plane ; and , from the summit of this plane , the stone is drawn by horses to the Menai . Vitruvius ( lib . x . , cap . 6 ) mentions with approbation the following contrivance , which he says was ...
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Page 127 - Nature confessed some atonement to be necessary : the gospel discovers that the necessary atonement is made." 2. When several semicolons have preceded, and a still greater pause is necessary, in order to mark the connecting or concluding sentiment: as, " A divine legislator, uttering his voice from heaven ; an almighty governor, stretching forth his arm to punish or reward ; informing us of perpetual rest prepared hereafter for the righteous, and of indignation and wrath awaiting the wicked : these...
Page 48 - And the Lord said unto Moses, See, I have, made thee a god to Pharaoh : and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.
Page 6 - The third I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady, that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits, as have to do with her.
Page 126 - I shall here define it to be a conceit arising from the use of two words that agree in the sound, but differ in the sense. The only way therefore to try a piece of wit, is to translate it into a different language. If it bears the test, you may pronounce it true ; but if it vanishes in the experiment, you may conclude it to have been a pun.
Page 278 - World, implying a second and third volume, which I also intended, and have hewn out ; besides many other discouragements persuading my silence, it hath pleased God to take that glorious prince out of the world to whom they were directed...
Page 126 - I went to one of the windows which opened to the area below, where all the several voices lost their distinction, and rose up in a confused humming; which created in me a reflection that could not come into the mind of any but of one a little too studious; for I said to myself, with a kind of pun in thought, What nonsense is all the hurry of this world to those who are above, it?
Page 224 - Actius, who lived at the end of the fifth and the beginning of the sixth centuries, repeats the recommendations of Oribasius.
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