Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory, and N. Bosworth assisted by other gentlemen of eminence, Volume 31819 |
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... force or strength of the centre , we must rest all on the first of these strains : for when the straining force tends to draw a beam out of its place , it must be held there by a mortise and tenon , which possesses but a very trifling force ...
... force or strength of the centre , we must rest all on the first of these strains : for when the straining force tends to draw a beam out of its place , it must be held there by a mortise and tenon , which possesses but a very trifling force ...
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... force them to- gether by wedges and blocks laid between the stones on opposite sides of the crown : they after- wards pour in fine cement . This appears a good practice . Perronet rejects it , because the wedg ing sometimes breaks the ...
... force them to- gether by wedges and blocks laid between the stones on opposite sides of the crown : they after- wards pour in fine cement . This appears a good practice . Perronet rejects it , because the wedg ing sometimes breaks the ...
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... force in a very ingenious manner . A heavy beam of oak , armed at the end with iron , was suspended from two points of the centre like a battering ram , to be used in the same way . Nothing could be more simple in its structure , more ...
... force in a very ingenious manner . A heavy beam of oak , armed at the end with iron , was suspended from two points of the centre like a battering ram , to be used in the same way . Nothing could be more simple in its structure , more ...
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... force or resistance should affect it , or act upon it . Hence , when a body at rest always tends to move , or when the velocity of any rectilinear or retarded , motion is continually accelerated or when the direction of a motion is ...
... force or resistance should affect it , or act upon it . Hence , when a body at rest always tends to move , or when the velocity of any rectilinear or retarded , motion is continually accelerated or when the direction of a motion is ...
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... force . And hence , if the centrifugal force be equal to the gravity , the velocity is equal to that acquired by falling through half the radius . 2. The central force of a body moving in the periphery of a circle , is as the versed ...
... force . And hence , if the centrifugal force be equal to the gravity , the velocity is equal to that acquired by falling through half the radius . 2. The central force of a body moving in the periphery of a circle , is as the versed ...
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Page 6 - While the Particles continue entire, they may compose Bodies of one and the same Nature and Texture in all Ages : But should they wear away, or break in pieces, the Nature of Things depending on them would be changed.
Page 11 - She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek : she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Page 13 - He is a perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all sciences ; and therefore speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so he knows also when to leave off; a continence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace.
Page 8 - Yet oh, the thought that thou art safe, and he! That thought is joy, arrive what may to me. My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins...
Page 6 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to 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...
Page 8 - The form of government in most of them is borrowed from that of England. They have...
Page 2 - ... each other, and so co-operate towards obtaining your end: and either in your attack or defence, bring them out so as not to be driven back again. 2. When you have brought out all your pieces, which you will have done well, if you have your choice on which side to castle; then consider thoroughly your own and adversary's game, and not only resolve where to castle, but likewise to attack where you appear strongest, and your enemy weakest.
Page 10 - ... 2. Because, upon challenges for cause shown, if the reason assigned prove insufficient to set aside the juror, perhaps the bare questioning his indifference may sometimes provoke a resentment ; to prevent all ill consequences from which, the prisoner is still at liberty, if he pleases, peremptorily to set him aside.
Page 5 - For it is a settled rule and maxim that nothing shall be averred against a record, nor shall any plea, or even proof, be admitted to the contrary...
Page 6 - A length of beard descends, uncomb'd, unclean: His eyes, like hollow furnaces on fire; A girdle, foul with grease, binds his obscene attire. He spreads his canvas ; with his pole he steers ; The freights of flitting ghosts in his thin bottom bears. He look'd in years; yet, in his years, were seen A youthful vigour, and autumnal green.