A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature and Practical Mechanics: Comprising a Popular View of the Present State of Knowledge : Illustrated by Numerous Engravings, a General Atlas, and Appropriate Diagrams, Volumen6Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 |
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... draw vastest weights along , Not in their bulk , but in their order , strong . Dryden . When the only clew we have fails us , which is most reasonable , to stop short or to push forward , without any clew at all into the labyrinth of ...
... draw vastest weights along , Not in their bulk , but in their order , strong . Dryden . When the only clew we have fails us , which is most reasonable , to stop short or to push forward , without any clew at all into the labyrinth of ...
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... drawn into the true perpen- dicular line ; the clock is afterwards put to it . We may now explain the contrivance by ... draw back the screws s , s , fig . 14 , so as to leave room for the flat of the steel part , T , to enter clearly ...
... drawn into the true perpen- dicular line ; the clock is afterwards put to it . We may now explain the contrivance by ... draw back the screws s , s , fig . 14 , so as to leave room for the flat of the steel part , T , to enter clearly ...
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... drawn out toge- ther ; but the aid of hands being required for join- ing the rolls or cardings of wool , they were found of little service , and have universally given way to the modern machine , which we shall now endeavour to describe ...
... drawn out toge- ther ; but the aid of hands being required for join- ing the rolls or cardings of wool , they were found of little service , and have universally given way to the modern machine , which we shall now endeavour to describe ...
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... drawn off the balls at H , when the clasp retires from the spindles , until a certain length of each is extended ... drawing out a fresh portion of each slubbing , in order to spin it in the same manner . For this purpose they are pushed ...
... drawn off the balls at H , when the clasp retires from the spindles , until a certain length of each is extended ... drawing out a fresh portion of each slubbing , in order to spin it in the same manner . For this purpose they are pushed ...
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... draw the cloth between them . The piece of cloth , when brought to the machine , is laid down on a board on the ground before the machine , and one end is passed under the roller R , which is merely to guide it ; then it is carried over ...
... draw the cloth between them . The piece of cloth , when brought to the machine , is laid down on a board on the ground before the machine , and one end is passed under the roller R , which is merely to guide it ; then it is carried over ...
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Página 274 - Are not the mountains, waves, and skies, a part Of me and of my soul, as I of them?
Página 21 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar; Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown...
Página 322 - Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore if a man write little he had need have a great memory: if he confer little he had need have a present wit, and if he read little he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend,
Página 363 - Is there, in human form, that bears a heart — A wretch ! a villain ! lost to love and truth ! That can, with studied, sly, ensnaring art, Betray sweet Jenny's unsuspecting youth? Curse on his perjur'd arts ! dissembling smooth ! Are honour, virtue, conscience, all exil'd?
Página 422 - But hark ! a rap comes gently to the door ; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam' o'er the moor, To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily mother sees the conscious flame Sparkle in Jenny's e'e, and flush her cheek ; With heart-struck anxious care, inquires his name, While Jenny hafflins is afraid to speak : Weel pleased the mother hears it's nae wild, worthless rake. Wi...
Página 415 - Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him, let him know, that he *which converteth the sinner from the error of his way, shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
Página 400 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Página 415 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er, or rarely, been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Página 326 - Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim — Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies.
Página 282 - Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.