Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts, Հատոր 16,Թողարկում 136 –Հատոր 18,Թողարկում 160William Chambers, Robert Chambers William and Robert Chambers, 1847 |
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... continued for a number of years to pur- sue his trade of making sextants , compasses , & c . for which articles he found customers both within and without the walls of the university . " There are still in existence , " says M. Arago ...
... continued for a number of years to pur- sue his trade of making sextants , compasses , & c . for which articles he found customers both within and without the walls of the university . " There are still in existence , " says M. Arago ...
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... continued his profession , enlarging it , however , so as to include engineering . He accordingly began to be consulted in the con- struction of canals , bridges , and other works of large dimensions requiring science and skill . In the ...
... continued his profession , enlarging it , however , so as to include engineering . He accordingly began to be consulted in the con- struction of canals , bridges , and other works of large dimensions requiring science and skill . In the ...
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... continued to pass for a simple body after the compound nature of atmospheric air was demonstrated . In the year 1781 , however , Mr Warltire , a chemist , observed that when an electric spark was passed through a mixture of hydrogen gas ...
... continued to pass for a simple body after the compound nature of atmospheric air was demonstrated . In the year 1781 , however , Mr Warltire , a chemist , observed that when an electric spark was passed through a mixture of hydrogen gas ...
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... continued at the foot of the walls , without meat , drink , fire , or shelter , where many hun- dreds of them died . At the end of that time , such of them as were able to go away were permitted to do so , the cruelty of Rosen's design ...
... continued at the foot of the walls , without meat , drink , fire , or shelter , where many hun- dreds of them died . At the end of that time , such of them as were able to go away were permitted to do so , the cruelty of Rosen's design ...
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... continued . On the 4th of August a breach was made through a convent upon which the batteries had been made to bear , and the French rushing in , took the guns there stationed , and forced their way through a street which ended in the ...
... continued . On the 4th of August a breach was made through a convent upon which the batteries had been made to bear , and the French rushing in , took the guns there stationed , and forced their way through a street which ended in the ...
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Էջ 9 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Էջ 28 - And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies ; A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle.
Էջ 11 - THE glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on Kings: Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Էջ 15 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Էջ 20 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial, endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me?
Էջ 6 - The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
Էջ 27 - Of those fierce darts Despair at me doth throw. 0 make in me those civil wars to cease: 1 will good tribute pay, if thou do so. Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed, A chamber deaf to noise and blind to light, A rosy garland and a weary head: And if these things, as being thine by right, Move not thy heavy grace, thou shalt in me, Livelier than elsewhere, Stella's image see.
Էջ 9 - Come, let us go while we are in our prime; And take the harmless folly of the time. We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the sun...