Philosophy in Sport Made Science in Earnest: Being an Attempt to Illustrate the First Principles of Natural Philosophy by the Aid of the Popular Toys and Sports ...Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1827 - 207 pages |
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Page 139 - I know not the day of my death : now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison ; and make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.
Page 159 - Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.
Page 139 - Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well, whose branches run over the wall: the archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: but his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob...
Page 19 - I. fig. 3.) ; draw one of them, A, a little on one side, — now let it go ; — it strikes, you see, against the other ball, B, and drives it off, to a distance equal to that through which the first ball fell ; but the motion of A is...
Page 167 - ... strings, in a much more perfect manner than if it had no other vehicle than the air. Caroline. That it is, certainly, for I am almost stunned by the noise. But what is a sonorous body, Mrs. B. ? for all bodies are capable of producing gome kind of sound by the motion they communicate to the air.
Page 295 - Charmer of an idle hour, Object of my warm desire, Lip of wax, and eye of fire ; And thy snowy taper waist, With my finger gently brac'd ; And thy pretty swelling crest, With my little stopper prest...
Page 158 - And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty change of garments: but if ye cannot declare it me, then shall ye give me thirty sheets and thirty change of garments.