The Technologist. Ed. by P.L. Simmonds, Volume 7Peter Lund Simmonds 1773 |
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... tion in the English army , from its evident superiority over the old - fashioned weapons now in use . For more than a year was the inventor kept in suspense , as the Enfield rifle met him at He was bandied about from one official to ...
... tion in the English army , from its evident superiority over the old - fashioned weapons now in use . For more than a year was the inventor kept in suspense , as the Enfield rifle met him at He was bandied about from one official to ...
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... tion will be found a very serious one . " The discharge by a needle ' is quite a different princi- ple . No force is required beyond that of sending the abruptly sharpened point of a strong needle into the deto- nating substance . This ...
... tion will be found a very serious one . " The discharge by a needle ' is quite a different princi- ple . No force is required beyond that of sending the abruptly sharpened point of a strong needle into the deto- nating substance . This ...
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... tion that something is fundamentally wrong in our electrical theories which must be set right before electricity as a science will advance a single step ; and the amend- ment , whatever it may be , must come in the shape of an ...
... tion that something is fundamentally wrong in our electrical theories which must be set right before electricity as a science will advance a single step ; and the amend- ment , whatever it may be , must come in the shape of an ...
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... tion was too large , and required - like chemical affinity- to be made definite ; and who , working out the idea , has found it to dispense with the necessity of electrical repul- sion , and also with the duplicated system of Dufay ...
... tion was too large , and required - like chemical affinity- to be made definite ; and who , working out the idea , has found it to dispense with the necessity of electrical repul- sion , and also with the duplicated system of Dufay ...
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... tion , instead of ( as formerly ) putting the composition on over the sulphur ; so that it requires a temperature of nearly 300 ° to ignite the match by heat , and a greater quantity of friction than with those formerly used . Moreover ...
... tion , instead of ( as formerly ) putting the composition on over the sulphur ; so that it requires a temperature of nearly 300 ° to ignite the match by heat , and a greater quantity of friction than with those formerly used . Moreover ...
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Página 176 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Página 504 - Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there; And. thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven.
Página 581 - But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation ? And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss. And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.
Página 324 - Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; It becomes The throned monarch better than his crown : His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice.
Página 459 - If I have thoughts and can't express 'em, Gibbon shall teach me how to dress 'em In terms select and terse ; Jones teach me modesty and Greek ; Smith, how to think ; Burke, how to speak ; And Beauclerk to converse.
Página 498 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek...
Página 464 - If, for example, a man, through intemperance or extravagance, becomes unable to pay his debts, or, having undertaken the moral responsibility of a family, becomes from the same cause incapable of supporting or educating them, he is deservedly reprobated, and might be justly punished; but it is for the breach of duty to his family or creditors, not for the extravagance.
Página 495 - But our ideas being nothing but actual perceptions in the mind, which cease to be any thing when there is no perception of them, this laying up of our ideas in the repository of the memory signifies no more but this, that the mind has a power in many cases to revive perceptions which it has once had, with this additional perception annexed to them, that it has had them before.
Página 495 - This is memory, which is as it were the store-house of our ideas. For the narrow mind of man not being capable of having many ideas under view and consideration at once, it was necessary to have a repository to lay up those ideas, which at another time it might have use of.
Página 558 - This excessive passion for the sports of the field produced those evils which are apt to result from it ; a strenuous idleness, which disdained all useful occupations, and an oppressive spirit towards the peasantry. The devastation committed under the pretence of destroying wild animals, which had been already protected in their depredations, is noticed in serious authors, and has also been the topic of popular ballads.