A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for Raising Water, Ancient and Modern: With Observations on Various Subjects Connected with the Mechanic Arts: Including the Progressive Development of the Steam Engine ... In Five Books. Illustrated by Nearly Three Hundred EngravingsGreeley & McElrath, 1842 - 582 էջ |
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... appears that in the tangible remains of smelting furnaces , found in Siberia , that gold hammers , knives , chisels , & c . have been discovered , the edges of which were skil- fully tipped with iron ; showing the scarcity of the ore ...
... appears that in the tangible remains of smelting furnaces , found in Siberia , that gold hammers , knives , chisels , & c . have been discovered , the edges of which were skil- fully tipped with iron ; showing the scarcity of the ore ...
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... appears that from very remote ages , mechanics were inva- riably carried off . The Phenicians , in a war with the Jews , deprived them of every man who could forge iron . " There was no smith found through- out all the land of Israel ...
... appears that from very remote ages , mechanics were inva- riably carried off . The Phenicians , in a war with the Jews , deprived them of every man who could forge iron . " There was no smith found through- out all the land of Israel ...
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... appears to have as yet been received in the United States , was brought by Capt . Ray of Nantucket , who a few weeks since returned from the South Seas in the ship Logan , and who , having visited the spot whilst the inhabitants of ...
... appears to have as yet been received in the United States , was brought by Capt . Ray of Nantucket , who a few weeks since returned from the South Seas in the ship Logan , and who , having visited the spot whilst the inhabitants of ...
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... appears that the ancient Egyptians arranged their houses and court yards ( Grande Description , tom . iii , Planche xvi , ) in a manner very similar to those of the Romans , as seen at Pompeii , and like these , each house was generally ...
... appears that the ancient Egyptians arranged their houses and court yards ( Grande Description , tom . iii , Planche xvi , ) in a manner very similar to those of the Romans , as seen at Pompeii , and like these , each house was generally ...
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... appears to have been one of the ordinary wells of the country , which having no curb , had been left open , and the lion slipped and fell into it . ' Antiq . vii , 12 . ' On our way back to the town , we saw a poor ass dying in a pit ...
... appears to have been one of the ordinary wells of the country , which having no curb , had been left open , and the lion slipped and fell into it . ' Antiq . vii , 12 . ' On our way back to the town , we saw a poor ass dying in a pit ...
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A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for ... Thomas Ewbank Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1847 |
A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for ... Thomas Ewbank Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1842 |
A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for ... Thomas Ewbank Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1846 |
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Էջ 571 - For Tophet is ordained of old ; Yea, for the king it is prepared ; He hath made it deep and large: The pile thereof is fire and much wood ; The breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
Էջ 44 - ... and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar ? fear not ; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand ; for I will make him a great nation.
Էջ 400 - For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Էջ 40 - And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?
Էջ 95 - Behold, God is my salvation ; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
Էջ 44 - Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his sons, and his cattle?
Էջ 67 - The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket. The moss-covered bucket which hung in the well. That moss-covered vessel I hail as a treasure; For often, at noon, when returned from the field, I found it the source of an exquisite pleasure, The purest and sweetest that nature can yield.
Էջ 518 - When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was-, (but the servants which drew the water knew) the governor of the feast...
Էջ 428 - A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions, as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected which (my former notes being lost) I have, at the instance of a powerful Friend, endeavoured now in the year 1655 to set these down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to put any of them in practice.
Էջ 85 - They also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned with the heavenly bodies, and their order. And that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the...