Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, Band 14

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John Brown, 1816

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Seite 73 - Space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them ; and that these primitive Particles being Solids, are incomparably harder than any porous Bodies compounded of them ; even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary Power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first Creation.
Seite 91 - Others apart fat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reafon'd high, Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate ; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge abfolut* ; 560 And found no end, in wandring mazes loft.
Seite 73 - Of mercy and justice in thy face discern'd, Regardless of the bliss wherein he sat Second to thee, off'er'd himself to die For man's offence. O unexampled love ! Love no where to be found less than divine! Hail, Son of God, Saviour of men ! Thy name Shall be the copious matter of my song Henceforth, and never shall my harp thy praise Forget, nor from thy Father's praise disjoin!
Seite 174 - ... than voice it with claims and challenges. Preserve likewise the rights of inferior places, and think it more honour to direct in chief than to be busy in all. Embrace and invite helps and advices touching the execution of thy place, and do not drive away such as bring thee information as meddlers, but accept of them in good part.
Seite 33 - ... filled with them; the dead bodies of others dragged through the streets ; their blood running through the channels in such plenty, that torrents seemed to empty themselves...
Seite 265 - ... croup generally affects those of more mature years. Cullen remarks, " This disease seldom attacks infants till after they have been weaned. After this period, the younger they are, the more they are liable to this disease. The frequency of it becomes less as children become more advanced ; and there are no instances of children above twelve years being affected with it.
Seite 153 - ... and this will be known, by dividing the effect it ought to produce in a given time by the space intended to be described by the circumference of the wheel in the same time : the quotient will be the resistance overcome at the circumference of the wheel ; and is equal to the load required, the friction and resistance of the machinery included.
Seite 15 - THE GENUINE LETTERS of Mary Queen of Scots to James, Earl of Bothwell : Found in his Secretary's Closet after his Decease ; and now in the possession of a Gentleman of Oxford.
Seite 34 - XIII, and cardinals were present; and that a jubilee should be published throughout the whole Christian world, and the cause of it declared to be, to return thanks to God for the extirpation of the enemies of the truth and church in France. In the evening the cannon of St. Angelo were fired to testify the public joy; the whole city illuminated with bonfires ; and no one sign of rejoicing omitted that was usually made for the greatest victories obtained in favour of the Roman church...
Seite 128 - ... of the system, that the number of their revolutions, and consequently their velocities, must be in proportion to the number of suspending parts that are between the fixed point above mentioned, and each pulley respectively.

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