The Cabinet of Arts: Or, General Instructor in Arts, Science, Trade, Practical Machinery, the Means of Preserving Human Life, and Political EconomyT. Kinnersley, 1817 - 859 էջ |
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... powder - mills , boring- mills , saw - mills , & c . In ancient times corn was ground by hand - mills , consisting of two stones , the upper concave , the under convex , like those of water - mills , but much smaller , the upper stone ...
... powder - mills , boring- mills , saw - mills , & c . In ancient times corn was ground by hand - mills , consisting of two stones , the upper concave , the under convex , like those of water - mills , but much smaller , the upper stone ...
Էջ 95
... powder . The Leyden phial , or electrical jar , is so named from Leyden , a cele- brated university in Holland , where its properties were first properly discovered . When a conducting body approaches an electrified body , that side of ...
... powder . The Leyden phial , or electrical jar , is so named from Leyden , a cele- brated university in Holland , where its properties were first properly discovered . When a conducting body approaches an electrified body , that side of ...
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... powder . • The Leyden phial , or electrical jar , is so named from Leyden , a cele- brated university in Holland , where its properties were first properly discovered . When a conducting body approaches an electrified body , that side ...
... powder . • The Leyden phial , or electrical jar , is so named from Leyden , a cele- brated university in Holland , where its properties were first properly discovered . When a conducting body approaches an electrified body , that side ...
Էջ 108
... powder . The liquid thus obtain- ed is peculiarly nauseous , possessing an extremely pungent bitterness , not to be found in similar solutions of other metals . Such is the account of the reduction of the golden calf to powder , in the ...
... powder . The liquid thus obtain- ed is peculiarly nauseous , possessing an extremely pungent bitterness , not to be found in similar solutions of other metals . Such is the account of the reduction of the golden calf to powder , in the ...
Էջ 117
... powder . The affinity or attraction of the particles of the water for those of the spirit of wine being stronger than that tir the salt , the salt is abandoned by the water , which hastens to unite with the spirit . When any body is ...
... powder . The affinity or attraction of the particles of the water for those of the spirit of wine being stronger than that tir the salt , the salt is abandoned by the water , which hastens to unite with the spirit . When any body is ...
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Էջ 97 - And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing : and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
Էջ 97 - None from henceforth shall use to multiply gold or silver, or use the craft of multiplication; and if any the same do, he shall incur the pain of felony.
Էջ 346 - For the works of nature are full of disproportion, and fall very short of the true standard of beauty. So that Phidias, when he formed his Jupiter, did not copy any object ever presented to his sight; but contemplated only that image which he had conceived in his mind from Homer's description.
Էջ 346 - Neither did this artist," says he, "when he carved the image of Jupiter or Minerva, set before him any one human figure, as a pattern, which he was to copy; but having a more perfect idea of beauty fixed in his mind, this he steadily contemplated, and to the imitation of this all his skill and labour were directed.
Էջ 303 - Michael Angelo's works have a strong, peculiar, and marked character: they seem to proceed from his own mind entirely, and that mind so rich and abundant, that he never needed, or seemed to disdain, to look abroad for foreign help. Raffaelle's materials are generally borrowed, though the noble structure is his own.
Էջ 71 - Thus Fullers and Dyers find black Cloths, of equal Thickness with white ones, and hung out equally wet, dry in the Sun much sooner than the white, being more readily heated by the Sun's Rays.
Էջ 327 - ... confused manner in which those collections have been laid up in his mind. The addition of other men's judgment is so far from weakening our own, as is the opinion of many, that it will fashion and consolidate those ideas of excellence which lay in embryo, feeble, ill-shaped, and confused...
Էջ 331 - When I observed an extraordinary effect of light and shade in any picture, I took a leaf of my pocket-book, and darkened every part of it in the same gradation of light and shade as the picture, leaving the white paper untouched to represent the light, and this without any attention to the subject, or to the drawing of the figures.
Էջ 313 - I reflect not without vanity, that these Discourses bear testimony of my admiration * Che Raffaelle non ebbe quest" arte da nutura, ma per lunyo studio. of that truly divine man, and I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of — MICHAEL ANGELO*.
Էջ 346 - ... of the art in which English artists are the most engaged, a variety, a fancy, and a dignity derived from the higher branches, which even those who professed them in a superior manner did not always preserve when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history and of the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits he appears not to be raised upon that platform, but to descend to it from a higher sphere. His paintings illustrate his lessons, and...