The Universal Preceptor: Being a General Grammar of Arts, Sciences, and Useful KnowledgeEdward Parker, 1822 - 322 pàgines |
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Pàgina 22
... natives , when first discovered , had learnt to elevate the roofs on poles , and to fill in the sides of their houses with boughs or rushes , mud , or sods . Obs . - The cottages of many of the poor ( 23 ) Of Building.
... natives , when first discovered , had learnt to elevate the roofs on poles , and to fill in the sides of their houses with boughs or rushes , mud , or sods . Obs . - The cottages of many of the poor ( 23 ) Of Building.
Pàgina 23
... the South Seas , the natives , when first discovered , had learnt to elevate the roofs on poles , and to fill in the sides of their houses with boughs or rushes , mud , or sods . Obs . - The cottages of many of the poor ( 23 )
... the South Seas , the natives , when first discovered , had learnt to elevate the roofs on poles , and to fill in the sides of their houses with boughs or rushes , mud , or sods . Obs . - The cottages of many of the poor ( 23 )
Pàgina 29
... the South Seas , the natives , when first discovered , had learnt to elevate the roofs on poles , and to fill in the sides of their houses with boughs or rushes , mud , or sods . Obs . - The cottages of many of the poor ( 23 )
... the South Seas , the natives , when first discovered , had learnt to elevate the roofs on poles , and to fill in the sides of their houses with boughs or rushes , mud , or sods . Obs . - The cottages of many of the poor ( 23 )
Pàgina 29
... side inward or outward , makes a winter or summer - garment . 114. Some natives of the South Sea islands clothe themselves in mats made of reeds or vege- table fibres ; others render pliable the common bark of trees ; but none of these ...
... side inward or outward , makes a winter or summer - garment . 114. Some natives of the South Sea islands clothe themselves in mats made of reeds or vege- table fibres ; others render pliable the common bark of trees ; but none of these ...
Pàgina 53
... sides of hills , wedges , screws , jacks , & c . , are all used in mechanics on the same principle : their power depends on the proportion between the height actually attained , and the length of the plane moved over . A screw is an ...
... sides of hills , wedges , screws , jacks , & c . , are all used in mechanics on the same principle : their power depends on the proportion between the height actually attained , and the length of the plane moved over . A screw is an ...
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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.