The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful Knowledge, Volume 19Charles Knight, 1841 |
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... length he gave it over , not find- bears jussu Societatis , ' & c . , and not jussu et sumptibus , ' ing the means of doing it . Since which time Mr. Hooke had as usual where it bore the expenses . But Mr. Rigaud frequently told him ...
... length he gave it over , not find- bears jussu Societatis , ' & c . , and not jussu et sumptibus , ' ing the means of doing it . Since which time Mr. Hooke had as usual where it bore the expenses . But Mr. Rigaud frequently told him ...
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... length for the second . The dates of the Newtonian prefaces are , May 8 , 1686 ; March 28 , 1713 ; January 12 , 1725-6 . The following is the description of the contents of the third edition : The definitions comprise , 1. Quantity of ...
... length for the second . The dates of the Newtonian prefaces are , May 8 , 1686 ; March 28 , 1713 ; January 12 , 1725-6 . The following is the description of the contents of the third edition : The definitions comprise , 1. Quantity of ...
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... length of the pendulum . ( 29 ) Resistance being as ( velocity ) , to find the resistance at any point of a cycloidal oscillation . 3 Cor . ( 30 ) Easier method of ex- hibiting the difference of an arc of descent and ascent . Cor . ( 31 ) ...
... length of the pendulum . ( 29 ) Resistance being as ( velocity ) , to find the resistance at any point of a cycloidal oscillation . 3 Cor . ( 30 ) Easier method of ex- hibiting the difference of an arc of descent and ascent . Cor . ( 31 ) ...
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... length , say TB ; while the hero goes over TB , his dinner ( for dinner he may have out of it , in spite of the ... length Aa is am ÷ ( m - 1 ) , the same answer as would be produced by common The sophism divides this length into the ...
... length , say TB ; while the hero goes over TB , his dinner ( for dinner he may have out of it , in spite of the ... length Aa is am ÷ ( m - 1 ) , the same answer as would be produced by common The sophism divides this length into the ...
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... length the legend of Pandora , and says that Zeus sent her to Epimetheus ; and that he , not following the advice of Prometheus , who had told him never to receive a gift from Zeus , but to send it back again , took her into his house ...
... length the legend of Pandora , and says that Zeus sent her to Epimetheus ; and that he , not following the advice of Prometheus , who had told him never to receive a gift from Zeus , but to send it back again , took her into his house ...
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Page 133 - Musick is yet but in its Nonage, a forward Child, which gives hope of what it may be hereafter in England, when the Masters of it shall find more Encouragement. 'Tis now learning Italian, which is its best Master, and studying a little of the French Air to give it somewhat more of Gayety and Fashion. Thus being farther from the Sun, we are of later Growth than our Neighbour Countries, and must be content to shake off our Barbarity by degrees.
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 278 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; . . . what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath nattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised; thou hast drawn together all the farstretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, hie j'acet!
Page 99 - With flocks of such-like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous ichthyosauri and plesiosauri swarming in the ocean, and gigantic crocodiles and tortoises crawling on the shores of the primeval lakes and rivers, air, sea, and land must have been strangely tenanted in these early periods of our infant world...
Page 224 - Actius, who lived at the end of the fifth and the beginning of the sixth centuries, repeats the recommendations of Oribasius.
Page 11 - ... the members of animal bodies move at the command of the will, namely, by the vibrations of this Spirit, mutually propagated along the solid filaments of the nerves, from the outward organs of sense to the brain, and from the brain to the muscles.
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 24 - Table hath of late times assumed unto itself a power to intermeddle in civil causes and matters only of private interest between party and party, and have adventured to determine of the estates and liberties of the subject contrary to the law of the land and the rights and privileges of the subject...
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.