Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, Volume 16John Brown, 1816 |
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... common mode can only be defended by supplying a very harsh and unpre- cedented ellipfis ; he is mistaken though fo wife , as never was any fuch however is the common ufe of the word among the best authors . - Be it never fo true which ...
... common mode can only be defended by supplying a very harsh and unpre- cedented ellipfis ; he is mistaken though fo wife , as never was any fuch however is the common ufe of the word among the best authors . - Be it never fo true which ...
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... Common Prayer . 5. Not antiquated ; having the effect of novelty.- These ever new , nor subject to decays , Spread and grow brighter with the length of days . Pope . 6. Not habituated ; not familiar . - Such affem- blies , though had ...
... Common Prayer . 5. Not antiquated ; having the effect of novelty.- These ever new , nor subject to decays , Spread and grow brighter with the length of days . Pope . 6. Not habituated ; not familiar . - Such affem- blies , though had ...
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... common people . There were among them feveral perfons of high rank , who , having embraced Puritanism , had taken the precaution to fecure themselves an afy- lum in these diftant regions , They had caufed houfes to be built , and lands ...
... common people . There were among them feveral perfons of high rank , who , having embraced Puritanism , had taken the precaution to fecure themselves an afy- lum in these diftant regions , They had caufed houfes to be built , and lands ...
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... common centre of gravity of two or more bodies does not alter its ftate of motion or reft by the actions of the bodies among them- felves ; and therefore the common centre of gra- vity of all bodies acting upon each other ( excluding ...
... common centre of gravity of two or more bodies does not alter its ftate of motion or reft by the actions of the bodies among them- felves ; and therefore the common centre of gra- vity of all bodies acting upon each other ( excluding ...
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... common water is the best remedy in fevers , and even in the plague ; tranflated from the English of John Hancock , minister of St Mar- garet's , London , in 12m0 , 1720. It went through 3 editions ; the laft came out in 1730 , in 2 vols ...
... common water is the best remedy in fevers , and even in the plague ; tranflated from the English of John Hancock , minister of St Mar- garet's , London , in 12m0 , 1720. It went through 3 editions ; the laft came out in 1730 , in 2 vols ...
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Page 86 - Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of hope; tomorrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him; The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 44 - The change of motion is proportional to the motive force impressed ; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.
Page 43 - Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
Page 149 - Vice, for vice is necessary to be shewn, should always disgust.} nor should the graces of gaiety, or the dignity of courage, be so united with it as to reconcile it to the mind. Wherever it appears, it should raise hatred by the malignity of its practices, and contempt by the meanness of its stratagems ; for while it is supported by either parts or spirit, it will be seldom heartily abhorred.
Page 296 - When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart.
Page 52 - ... an equal reaction; therefore the planet B will, on the other hand, gravitate towards all the parts of the planet A; and its gravity towards any one part will be to the gravity towards the whole as the matter of the part to the matter of the whole. QED Cor.
Page 149 - The purpose of these writings is surely not only to show mankind, but to provide that they may be seen hereafter with less hazard ; to teach the means of avoiding the snares which are laid by TREACHERY for INNOCENCE, without infusing any wish for that superiority...
Page 41 - Absolute, true, and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external, and by another name is called duration: relative, apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by the means of motion, which is commonly used instead of true time; such as an hour, a day, a month, a year.
Page 42 - The effects which distinguish absolute from relative motion are the forces of receding from the axis of circular motion. For there are no such forces in a circular motion purely relative, but in a true and absolute circular motion they are greater or less, according to the quantity of the motion.
Page 149 - If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account; or why it may not be as safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind, as upon a mirror which shows all that presents itself without discrimination.