The Universal Preceptor: Being a General Grammar of Arts, Sciences, and Useful Knowledge |
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... wonderful ex- ploits . Some nations , nothing removed above savages , are , however , found to have acquired the use of bows and arrows . 14. In taking aim , with missle weapons , the precision which savage nations have attained , is ...
... wonderful ex- ploits . Some nations , nothing removed above savages , are , however , found to have acquired the use of bows and arrows . 14. In taking aim , with missle weapons , the precision which savage nations have attained , is ...
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... wonderful . 69. It is very seldom that metals are found in a pure state ; but perhaps the first discoverer , having found some metal in a detached or pure state , was led to make experiments on those lumps of shapeless , and coarse ...
... wonderful . 69. It is very seldom that metals are found in a pure state ; but perhaps the first discoverer , having found some metal in a detached or pure state , was led to make experiments on those lumps of shapeless , and coarse ...
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... wonderful operations of a COTTON- MILL , have been so correctly described by Dar- win ; that they will be much better remembered in that form , than in prose : First , with nice eye , emerging maidens cull From leathery pods , the ...
... wonderful operations of a COTTON- MILL , have been so correctly described by Dar- win ; that they will be much better remembered in that form , than in prose : First , with nice eye , emerging maidens cull From leathery pods , the ...
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... wonderful precision and force . " THE STEAM ENGINE . Obs . 1. - A regular and powerful motion being thus pro- duced , the mechanic seizes upon it , and applies it with ease to all kinds of machinery . The apparatus itself has been ...
... wonderful precision and force . " THE STEAM ENGINE . Obs . 1. - A regular and powerful motion being thus pro- duced , the mechanic seizes upon it , and applies it with ease to all kinds of machinery . The apparatus itself has been ...
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... wonderful combination of human industry , than is visible on board a first - rate man of war . It appears incredible that a vessel as large as the largest parish church , should he moved and di- rected in the water with nearly the same ...
... wonderful combination of human industry , than is visible on board a first - rate man of war . It appears incredible that a vessel as large as the largest parish church , should he moved and di- rected in the water with nearly the same ...
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Page 116 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Page 265 - Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air.
Page 180 - To view the structure of this little work, A bird's nest. Mark it well, within, without. No tool had he that wrought, no knife to cut, No nail to fix, no bodkin to insert, No glue to join; his little beak was all. And yet how neatly finish'd ! What nice hand, With ev'ry implement and means of art, And twenty years apprenticeship to boot, Could make me such another?
Page 41 - That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons before conviction, are illegal and void. 13. And that for redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening, and preserving of the laws, parliament ought to be held frequently.
Page 104 - Horrid with frost, and turbulent with storm, Blows autumn, and his golden fruits away : Then melts into the spring: soft spring, with breath Favonian, from warm chambers of the south, Recalls the first. All, to re-flourish, fades ; As in a wheel, all sinks, to re-ascend. Emblems of man, who passes, not expires.
Page 167 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures...
Page 40 - That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament.
Page 193 - Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives and what denies ? VII. Far as creation's ample range extends, The scale of sensual, mental powers ascends : Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass ! What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme!
Page 42 - Political liberty consists in the power of doing whatever does not injure another. The exercise of the natural rights of every man, has no other limits than those which are necessary to secure to every other man the free exercise of the same rights ; and these limits are determinable only by the law.