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 EngravingsD. Appleton, 1842 - 582 páginas |
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... inches high , having a hole ( tube ) of communication at the bottom . One of them is open , and the other has on its orifice a little animal , like a mon- key , eating a cod of some sort ; under which is a hole which makes a whist- ling ...
... inches high , having a hole ( tube ) of communication at the bottom . One of them is open , and the other has on its orifice a little animal , like a mon- key , eating a cod of some sort ; under which is a hole which makes a whist- ling ...
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... inches in 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 ...
... inches in 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 ...
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... inches high . REASONS FOR NOT PLACING CURBS ROUND THE MOUTHS OF WELLS . The motives which induced the ancients to leave their wells without curbs were various : 1. That they might be more readily concealed . This was a universal custom ...
... inches high . REASONS FOR NOT PLACING CURBS ROUND THE MOUTHS OF WELLS . The motives which induced the ancients to leave their wells without curbs were various : 1. That they might be more readily concealed . This was a universal custom ...
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... inches high . Roman curbs were ge- nerally plain , but one has been found in the street of the Mercuries at Pompeii , beautifully ornamented with triglyphs . To these curbs Juvenal appears to allude : Oh ! how much more devoutly should ...
... inches high . Roman curbs were ge- nerally plain , but one has been found in the street of the Mercuries at Pompeii , beautifully ornamented with triglyphs . To these curbs Juvenal appears to allude : Oh ! how much more devoutly should ...
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... inches in its interior 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 ...
... inches in its interior 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 ...
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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 35 - In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
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 549 - 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 51 - And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.
Página 84 - And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
Página 102 - ... if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul ; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday : and the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones : and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
Página 496 - 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 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 454 - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
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?