A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for Raising Water, Ancient and Modern: With Observations on Various Subjects Connected with the Mechanic Arts: Including the Progressive Development of the Steam Engine ... In Five Books. Illustrated by Nearly Three Hundred EngravingsGreeley & McElrath, 1842 - 582 páginas |
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... diameter . " These reser- voirs are really worthy of Solomon ; I had formed no conception of their magnificence ; they are three in number , the smallest between four , and five hundred feet in length . " The waters are discharged from ...
... diameter . " These reser- voirs are really worthy of Solomon ; I had formed no conception of their magnificence ; they are three in number , the smallest between four , and five hundred feet in length . " The waters are discharged from ...
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... diameter . Jacob's well is nine feet across , and some were larger The curb round the well Zemzem at Mecca , is ten feet in diameter . " Another time we passed an ancient well , " says Lindsay , Let . 10 , " in an excursion from ...
... diameter . Jacob's well is nine feet across , and some were larger The curb round the well Zemzem at Mecca , is ten feet in diameter . " Another time we passed an ancient well , " says Lindsay , Let . 10 , " in an excursion from ...
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... diameter , and when Maundrell visited it , it contained fifteen feet of water . Its great an- tiquity will not appear very extraordinary , if we reflect that it is bored through the solid rock , and therefore could not be destroyed ...
... diameter , and when Maundrell visited it , it contained fifteen feet of water . Its great an- tiquity will not appear very extraordinary , if we reflect that it is bored through the solid rock , and therefore could not be destroyed ...
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... diameter . In the 317th year of the Hegira , the Karmatians slew seventeen thousand pilgrims within the cir- cumference of the Caaba , and filled this famous well with the dead bo- dies ; they also carried off the Black Stone . JOSEPH'S ...
... diameter . In the 317th year of the Hegira , the Karmatians slew seventeen thousand pilgrims within the cir- cumference of the Caaba , and filled this famous well with the dead bo- dies ; they also carried off the Black Stone . JOSEPH'S ...
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... diameter . The water is collected and carried up a broken ascent by men , women and children.a Fryer in his Travels in India , p . 410 , speaks of " deep wells many fathom under ground with stately stone stairs . " Joseph's well in ...
... diameter . The water is collected and carried up a broken ascent by men , women and children.a Fryer in his Travels in India , p . 410 , speaks of " deep wells many fathom under ground with stately stone stairs . " Joseph's well in ...
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A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for ... Thomas Ewbank Visualização integral - 1847 |
A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for ... Thomas Ewbank Visualização integral - 1842 |
A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for ... Thomas Ewbank Visualização integral - 1846 |
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Página 571 - For Tophet is ordained of old ; Yea, for the king it is prepared ; He hath made it deep and large: The pile thereof is fire and much wood ; The breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
Página 44 - ... and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar ? fear not ; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand ; for I will make him a great nation.
Página 400 - For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Página 40 - And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?
Página 95 - Behold, God is my salvation ; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
Página 44 - Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his sons, and his cattle?
Página 67 - The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket. The moss-covered bucket which hung in the well. That moss-covered vessel I hail as a treasure; For often, at noon, when returned from the field, I found it the source of an exquisite pleasure, The purest and sweetest that nature can yield.
Página 518 - When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was-, (but the servants which drew the water knew) the governor of the feast...
Página 428 - A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions, as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected which (my former notes being lost) I have, at the instance of a powerful Friend, endeavoured now in the year 1655 to set these down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to put any of them in practice.
Página 85 - They also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned with the heavenly bodies, and their order. And that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the...