The Universal Preceptor: Being a General Grammar of Arts, Sciences, and Useful KnowledgeEdward Parker, 1822 - 322 pàgines |
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Pàgina 52
... motion in the arm is ef- fected by the lever ; because the motion of one end is in the same proportion to the motion of the other as the distance of the two ends are from the fulcrum . If a lever , six yards in length , be laid on a ful ...
... motion in the arm is ef- fected by the lever ; because the motion of one end is in the same proportion to the motion of the other as the distance of the two ends are from the fulcrum . If a lever , six yards in length , be laid on a ful ...
Pàgina 53
... an additional force equal to e - fifth of the weight of the carriage , i . e . one - fifth of 40 t . , or double that with which they could draw on level Found . F 173. A body put in motion , would move for MECHANICAL POWERS . 53.
... an additional force equal to e - fifth of the weight of the carriage , i . e . one - fifth of 40 t . , or double that with which they could draw on level Found . F 173. A body put in motion , would move for MECHANICAL POWERS . 53.
Pàgina 54
... motion after being put into it , is felt by those who are in a car- riage which suddenly stops . They are thrown forwards , owing to their not parting with the motion they have acquired . From this cause , when a ship in full sail ...
... motion after being put into it , is felt by those who are in a car- riage which suddenly stops . They are thrown forwards , owing to their not parting with the motion they have acquired . From this cause , when a ship in full sail ...
Pàgina 55
... motion , as in the roasting jack , and in many mills . Obs . - On duly considering the vast increase of power by ... motion by a weight which turns a cylinder , which cylinder sets the whole in motion . Watches are kept in motion by a ...
... motion , as in the roasting jack , and in many mills . Obs . - On duly considering the vast increase of power by ... motion by a weight which turns a cylinder , which cylinder sets the whole in motion . Watches are kept in motion by a ...
Pàgina
... motion after being put into it , is felt by those who are in a car riage which suddenly stops . They are thrown forwards , owing to their not parting with the motion they have acquired . From this cause , when a ship in full sail ...
... motion after being put into it , is felt by those who are in a car riage which suddenly stops . They are thrown forwards , owing to their not parting with the motion they have acquired . From this cause , when a ship in full sail ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 29 - 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.
Pàgina 29 - That levying money for or to the use of the Crown, by pretence of prerogative, without grant of parliament, for longer time or in other manner than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
Pàgina 91 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood. The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line : In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew?
Pàgina 78 - 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...
Pàgina 29 - That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal.
Pàgina 29 - 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.
Pàgina 60 - 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.
Pàgina 78 - Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing...
Pàgina 78 - Fierce Winter sweeps them from the face of day. Even so luxurious men, unheeding, pass An idle summer life in fortune's shine, A season's glitter ! Thus they flutter on From toy to toy, from vanity to vice; Till, blown away by death, oblivion comes Behind, and strikes them from the book of life.