Encyclopædia Britannica: or, A dictionary of arts and sciences, compiled by a society of gentlemen in Scotland [ed. by W. Smellie]. Suppl. to the 3rd. ed., by G. Gleig, Հատոր 12 |
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... miles , in others not half fo much ; and the latter in fome places 45 , in others hardly 25. The air here is very temperate ; and the foil fruitful in corn , wine , wood , and pasture . Here alfo are mines of lead and iron , pits of ...
... miles , in others not half fo much ; and the latter in fome places 45 , in others hardly 25. The air here is very temperate ; and the foil fruitful in corn , wine , wood , and pasture . Here alfo are mines of lead and iron , pits of ...
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... miles from Birmingham . The time of obfervation was the 12th of December 1776 , before day - light . A great many of these lights were playing in an adjacent field , in different directions ; from fome of which there fuddenly fprung up ...
... miles from Birmingham . The time of obfervation was the 12th of December 1776 , before day - light . A great many of these lights were playing in an adjacent field , in different directions ; from fome of which there fuddenly fprung up ...
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... miles long and 42 broad . LIMERICK , or Lough - Meath , a market town , a bo- rough , and a bithop's fee , now the metropolis of the province of Munfter . It is fituated on the river Shan- non , 94 miles from Dublin ; and was the ...
... miles long and 42 broad . LIMERICK , or Lough - Meath , a market town , a bo- rough , and a bithop's fee , now the metropolis of the province of Munfter . It is fituated on the river Shan- non , 94 miles from Dublin ; and was the ...
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... miles from Romney , was formerly a port , till choked up by the fands ; and though it is thereby become a poor town , yet it has the horn and mace and other tokens left of its ancient grandeur , and used to be the place where the lord ...
... miles from Romney , was formerly a port , till choked up by the fands ; and though it is thereby become a poor town , yet it has the horn and mace and other tokens left of its ancient grandeur , and used to be the place where the lord ...
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... miles from London . It stands on the fide of a hill ; at the bot- tom of which runs the river Witham in three fmall channels , over which are feveral bridges . The old Lindum of the Britons , which stood on the top of the hill , as ...
... miles from London . It stands on the fide of a hill ; at the bot- tom of which runs the river Witham in three fmall channels , over which are feveral bridges . The old Lindum of the Britons , which stood on the top of the hill , as ...
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Էջ 233 - A body of nobility is also more peculiarly necessary in our mixed and compounded constitution, in order to support the rights of both the crown and the people, by forming a barrier to withstand the encroachments of both.
Էջ 269 - I am lawfully called," said he, " to appear in that city, and thither will I go in the name of the Lord, though as many devils as there are tiles on the houses were there combined against me.
Էջ 290 - Her speech was the melodious voice of Love, Her song the warbling of the vernal grove ; Her eloquence was sweeter than her song, Soft as her heart, and as her...
Էջ 233 - ... to be precarious. The nobility, therefore, are the pillars, which are reared from among the people, more immediately to support the throne; and, if that falls, they must also be buried under its ruins.
Էջ 152 - ... as there are a great many other ways by which heat might have been communicated to it. And if we cannot argue from the removal of the antecedent to the removal of the consequent, no more can we from the admission of the consequent to the admis.
Էջ 72 - The logarithm of the root of a number is found by dividing the logarithm of the number by the index of the root.
Էջ 327 - These being of different standing and proficiency, he was obliged to divide them into four or five classes, in each of which he employed a full hour every day, from the first of Nov. to the first of June. In the first class he taught the first six books of " Euclid's Elements," plain trigonometry, practical geometry, the elements of fortification, and an introduction to algebra.
Էջ 14 - ... it, for fome minutes, globules of light as large as the heads of pins. When he prefled thefe globules, they appeared to his touch like a foft and thin pulp ; and fome days after the fea was covered near the coafts with whole banks of thefe little iifh.
Էջ 191 - The Golden Orb or Globe, put into the king's right hand before he is crowned, and borne in his left, with the sceptre in his right, upon his return into Westminster-hall after he is crowned.
Էջ 410 - I could walk with, till this soul, like a ray of light, entered into me, and my tongue began to speak, my eye to see, and my foot to walk ; therefore punish it eternally, but deliver me.