Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Band 3Archibald Constable, 1823 |
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... says , that human race never existed without some knowledge of longevity was bestowed upon them for the very purpose astronomy among them . Indeed , besides the motives of improving the sciences of geometry and astronomy . of mere ...
... says , that human race never existed without some knowledge of longevity was bestowed upon them for the very purpose astronomy among them . Indeed , besides the motives of improving the sciences of geometry and astronomy . of mere ...
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... ( says Dr Long ) may perhaps account for the Chinese having so early cultivated the study of astronomy ; their being so well settled in an admirable police , and continuing so many hundred years as they did in the worship of the true God ...
... ( says Dr Long ) may perhaps account for the Chinese having so early cultivated the study of astronomy ; their being so well settled in an admirable police , and continuing so many hundred years as they did in the worship of the true God ...
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... says he ne- ver found its disk quite free of spots , excepting a few days in December 1624. At other times he frequent ly saw 20 , 30 , and in the year 1625 he was able to count 5 spots on the sun at a time . In an interval af- terwards ...
... says he ne- ver found its disk quite free of spots , excepting a few days in December 1624. At other times he frequent ly saw 20 , 30 , and in the year 1625 he was able to count 5 spots on the sun at a time . In an interval af- terwards ...
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... ( says he ) observed , near the eastern limb , a bright facula just come on , which has the next day shown itself as a spot , though I do not recollect to have seen such a facula near the western one after a spot's disappearance . Yet , I ...
... ( says he ) observed , near the eastern limb , a bright facula just come on , which has the next day shown itself as a spot , though I do not recollect to have seen such a facula near the western one after a spot's disappearance . Yet , I ...
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... says Dr Hers- chel , " from what we have shown of the nature of openings , shallows , ridges , nodules , corrugations , in- dentations , and pores , that these phenomena could not appear , if the shining matter of the sun were a liquid ...
... says Dr Hers- chel , " from what we have shown of the nature of openings , shallows , ridges , nodules , corrugations , in- dentations , and pores , that these phenomena could not appear , if the shining matter of the sun were a liquid ...
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Seite 59 - Aries the Ram, Taurus the Bull, Gemini the Twins, Cancer the Crab, Leo the Lion, Virgo the Virgin, Libra the Balance, Scorpio the Scorpion, Sagittarius the Archer, Capricornus the Goat, Aquarius the Waterbearer, and Pisces the Fishes...
Seite 396 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Seite 366 - This credit was called bank money, which, as it represented money exactly according to the standard of the mint, was always of the same real value, and intrinsically worth more than current money.
Seite 215 - ... to be said in his favour. Upon judgment therefore of death, and not before, the attainder of a criminal commences: or upon such circumstances as are equivalent to judgment of death ; as judgment of outlawry on a capital crime, pronounced for absconding or fleeing from justice, which tacitly confesses the guilt. And therefore either upon judgment of outlawry, or of death, for treason or felony, a man shall be said to be attainted.
Seite 220 - My friend " ' Pope, considering your infirmities, and my age and " ' exile, it is not likely we should ever meet again, " ' and therefore I give you this legacy to remember " ' me by. Take it home with yo.u, and let me advise "
Seite 297 - Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.
Seite 396 - ... seised to the use of, the bargainee : and then the statute of uses completes the purchase ' ; or, as it hath been well expressed m, the bargain first vests the use, and then the statute vests the possession.
Seite 222 - He has so much regard to. his congregation, that he commits to his memory what he has to say to them ; and has so soft and graceful a behaviour, that it must attract your attention. His person...
Seite 218 - Then said they all, Art thou then the Son of God ? And he said unto them, Ye say that I am.