The Universal Preceptor: Being a General Grammar of Arts, Sciences, and Useful Knowledge |
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... appears to be at length fully effected in the work now offered to the public . The number of editions through which it has passed in England , is a proof of the estimation in which it is there held : and the Publishers must be allowed ...
... appears to be at length fully effected in the work now offered to the public . The number of editions through which it has passed in England , is a proof of the estimation in which it is there held : and the Publishers must be allowed ...
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... appears , that they were only acquainted with its capacity of attracting and repelling iron , and not at all with its polarity or always pointing towards the pole of the earth . Among the moderns , this discovery has been claimed by the ...
... appears , that they were only acquainted with its capacity of attracting and repelling iron , and not at all with its polarity or always pointing towards the pole of the earth . Among the moderns , this discovery has been claimed by the ...
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... appear by the nautical almanac , that the sun is , on the fifth of June , at London , 61 de- grees high at 12 o'clock , and a sailor , by his qua- drant , finds it at that time to be 70 degrees high , he concludes that he is nine ...
... appear by the nautical almanac , that the sun is , on the fifth of June , at London , 61 de- grees high at 12 o'clock , and a sailor , by his qua- drant , finds it at that time to be 70 degrees high , he concludes that he is nine ...
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... appear more astonishing and marvellous , than that of navigation , in the state in which it exits at present . This cannot be made more evident , than by taking a retrospective view of the small craft to which navigation owes its origin ...
... appear more astonishing and marvellous , than that of navigation , in the state in which it exits at present . This cannot be made more evident , than by taking a retrospective view of the small craft to which navigation owes its origin ...
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... appears almost incredible that a ves- sel so large should be moved and directed in the water with nearly the same rapidity and precision as a small boat ; and it is wonderful that human hands could have fabricated and put together such ...
... appears almost incredible that a ves- sel so large should be moved and directed in the water with nearly the same rapidity and precision as a small boat ; and it is wonderful that human hands could have fabricated and put together such ...
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Page 29 - That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament.
Page 29 - That levying money for or to the use of the Crown, by pretence of prerogative, without grant of parliament, for longer time or in other manner than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
Page 91 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood. The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line : In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew?
Page 78 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures...
Page 29 - That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal.
Page 29 - Political liberty consists in the power of doing whatever does not injure another. The exercise of the natural rights of every man, has no other limits than those which are necessary to secure to every other man the free exercise of the same rights ; and these limits are determinable only by the law.
Page 60 - Horrid with frost and turbulent with storm, Blows autumn, and his golden fruits, away : Then melts into the spring : soft spring, with breath Favonian, from warm chambers of the south, Recalls the first.
Page 78 - Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing...
Page 78 - Fierce Winter sweeps them from the face of day. Even so luxurious men, unheeding, pass An idle summer life in fortune's shine, A season's glitter ! Thus they flutter on From toy to toy, from vanity to vice; Till, blown away by death, oblivion comes Behind, and strikes them from the book of life.