Lives of Eminent PersonsBaldwin and Cradock, 1833 - 571 páginas |
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... only wherewith it may be able to execute the desired operation . Just as we see by experience *** Ebony is one of the few woods heavier than water . See Treatise on Hydrostatics . that an acute and sharp angle is more apt to GALILEO . 41.
... only wherewith it may be able to execute the desired operation . Just as we see by experience *** Ebony is one of the few woods heavier than water . See Treatise on Hydrostatics . that an acute and sharp angle is more apt to GALILEO . 41.
Página 42
... able to overcome the visco- sity of the water ( like the ebony which they have selected ) ; and he that will select cork or other light wood to form solids of different figures , would in vain seek to find out what operation figure has ...
... able to overcome the visco- sity of the water ( like the ebony which they have selected ) ; and he that will select cork or other light wood to form solids of different figures , would in vain seek to find out what operation figure has ...
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... able to raise and carry it back to the top , where it floats as before . To this effect I take a ball of wax , and with a little lead make it just heavy enough to sink very slowly to the bottom , taking care that its surface be quite ...
... able to raise and carry it back to the top , where it floats as before . To this effect I take a ball of wax , and with a little lead make it just heavy enough to sink very slowly to the bottom , taking care that its surface be quite ...
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... able . I say , even allowing that hell is in the centre of the earth : for Gregory , book 4 , dial . chap . 42 , says , that he dare not decide rashly on this matter , although he thinks more probable the opinion of those who say that ...
... able . I say , even allowing that hell is in the centre of the earth : for Gregory , book 4 , dial . chap . 42 , says , that he dare not decide rashly on this matter , although he thinks more probable the opinion of those who say that ...
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... able to bear any other mode of conveyance . In such a state of health it seems unlikely that he would have quitted home on a mere visit of ceremony , which suspicion is strengthened by the beginning of a letter from him to Prince Cesi ...
... able to bear any other mode of conveyance . In such a state of health it seems unlikely that he would have quitted home on a mere visit of ceremony , which suspicion is strengthened by the beginning of a letter from him to Prince Cesi ...
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Página 20 - That the liberties, franchises, privileges and jurisdictions of Parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England...
Página 14 - Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter ; when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame ; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances ; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb...
Página 35 - I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there -were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots : and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.
Página 33 - ... the main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses and to deduce causes from effects till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the mechanism of the world, but chiefly to resolve these and such like questions.
Página 23 - Little else is requisite to carry a state to the " highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but " peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice ; " all the rest being brought about by the natural course of
Página 11 - How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.
Página 39 - Well, well, Master Kingston," quoth he, "I see the matter against me how it is framed; but if I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Página 22 - ... to demonstrate, that the most effectual plan for advancing a people to greatness, is to maintain that order of things which nature has pointed out, by allowing every man, as long as he observes the rules of justice, to pursue his own interest in his own way, and to bring both his industry and his capital into the freest competition with those of his fellow-citizens.
Página 6 - I thought best once for all to let you know in plainness what I find of you, and what you shall find of me. You take to yourself a liberty to disgrace and disable my law, my experience, my discretion.
Página 1 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.