Elements of General Knowledge, Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal Branches of Literature and Science: With Lists of the Most Approved Authors, Including the Best Editions of the Classics ; Designed Chiefly for the Junior Students in the Universities and the Higher Classes in Schools ; in Two Volumes. 2Messrs. Rivington, St. Paul's Church Yard; Hatchard, Piccadilly; and Egerton, Withehall; J. Parker and J. Cooke, Oxford; and Deighton, Cambridge, 1806 - 553 pàgines |
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... confiderable part of that of his fucceffor Edward IV . The blood of the nobleft families was fhed in the battles of St. Alban's , Wakefield , Towton , and Tewkesbury ; but no advantage accrued from fuch fierce and long continued ...
... confiderable part of that of his fucceffor Edward IV . The blood of the nobleft families was fhed in the battles of St. Alban's , Wakefield , Towton , and Tewkesbury ; but no advantage accrued from fuch fierce and long continued ...
Pàgina 103
... confiderable height . To- gether with the clouds and vapours which float in it , it is called the atmosphere . As it is poffeffed of weight , in common with all other fluids , it must # 4 prefs prefs upon bodies in proportion to the ...
... confiderable height . To- gether with the clouds and vapours which float in it , it is called the atmosphere . As it is poffeffed of weight , in common with all other fluids , it must # 4 prefs prefs upon bodies in proportion to the ...
Pàgina 104
... confiderable mechanical properties and effects of air are its fluidity , weight , and elaf- ticity , 1. Its Fluidity . This property is evident from the great eafe with which bodies pass through it , as in the propagation and eafy ...
... confiderable mechanical properties and effects of air are its fluidity , weight , and elaf- ticity , 1. Its Fluidity . This property is evident from the great eafe with which bodies pass through it , as in the propagation and eafy ...
Pàgina 141
... confiderable part of the Advancement of Learning was to raife and enlarge the powers of the mind by a useful application of reafon to all the objects which philosophy confiders . Thus does Lord Bacon prefent to the world a new and ...
... confiderable part of the Advancement of Learning was to raife and enlarge the powers of the mind by a useful application of reafon to all the objects which philosophy confiders . Thus does Lord Bacon prefent to the world a new and ...
Pàgina 149
... confiderable of all others for establishing the first principles of philofophy by geometrical proof . The author firft explains the real pheno- mena of motion , arifing from the natural powers of gravity , elasticity , and the ...
... confiderable of all others for establishing the first principles of philofophy by geometrical proof . The author firft explains the real pheno- mena of motion , arifing from the natural powers of gravity , elasticity , and the ...
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