The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful Knowledge, Volume 19Charles Knight, 1841 |
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... mean distances from the sun . 5. And the primary planets are very far from de- scribing equal areas in equal times ... means originally have taken that regu- lar orbital path by the same laws . The six principal planets revolve about ...
... mean distances from the sun . 5. And the primary planets are very far from de- scribing equal areas in equal times ... means originally have taken that regu- lar orbital path by the same laws . The six principal planets revolve about ...
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... means a material machinery , such as the solid orbs of some of the Ptolemnists . + Our countryman Pocock derives the word Deus from the Arabic du ( some- times di ) , which means ruler . And in this seuse the princes are called gods ...
... means a material machinery , such as the solid orbs of some of the Ptolemnists . + Our countryman Pocock derives the word Deus from the Arabic du ( some- times di ) , which means ruler . And in this seuse the princes are called gods ...
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... means of merely a variegated surface of stamp , or , in other words , the reproduction , in soft substances , of cameos and intaglios , would seem to be the simpler and more obvious of the two kinds of printing we have mentioned . This ...
... means of merely a variegated surface of stamp , or , in other words , the reproduction , in soft substances , of cameos and intaglios , would seem to be the simpler and more obvious of the two kinds of printing we have mentioned . This ...
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... means the reversed copy could be kept moist , or its moisture repeatedly renewed , here was a method of procuring in the same easy manner an indefinite number of copies . The mechanical facilities were still to be invented , but this ...
... means the reversed copy could be kept moist , or its moisture repeatedly renewed , here was a method of procuring in the same easy manner an indefinite number of copies . The mechanical facilities were still to be invented , but this ...
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... means of engraved blocks was discovered and first put in practice is not so easily settled . The employment of moveable types , the production of such types by the process of casting them in metal , and the formation of the matrix , or ...
... means of engraved blocks was discovered and first put in practice is not so easily settled . The employment of moveable types , the production of such types by the process of casting them in metal , and the formation of the matrix , or ...
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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.