Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Volume 6Archibald Constable, 1823 |
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Página 58
... four spoonfuls of yeast to work it . In two or three days stop the bung of the cask and in five or six days , when fine , bottle it for drinking . Two gallons of melasses are sufficient for a hogshead of li- quor ; but if melasses ...
... four spoonfuls of yeast to work it . In two or three days stop the bung of the cask and in five or six days , when fine , bottle it for drinking . Two gallons of melasses are sufficient for a hogshead of li- quor ; but if melasses ...
Página 75
... four revolutions they ended in perfect whiteness . As the colours were thus found to vary according Supposed to the different distances of the glass plates from each to arise other ; our author thought that they proceeded from from den ...
... four revolutions they ended in perfect whiteness . As the colours were thus found to vary according Supposed to the different distances of the glass plates from each to arise other ; our author thought that they proceeded from from den ...
Página 92
... four.fifths of a glass , of the same size with the others , by laying one piece on the four lowest divisions , anProvide three panes of glass ( fig . 2. ) of about five other on the three lowest , a third on the two lowest , inches ...
... four.fifths of a glass , of the same size with the others , by laying one piece on the four lowest divisions , anProvide three panes of glass ( fig . 2. ) of about five other on the three lowest , a third on the two lowest , inches ...
Página 97
... four names would be together in the same order with Ælian ; and from these Miletus must be excepted , be- cause there is an obvious reason for mentioning that city first . Three only will then remain ; and surely that is too slight a ...
... four names would be together in the same order with Ælian ; and from these Miletus must be excepted , be- cause there is an obvious reason for mentioning that city first . Three only will then remain ; and surely that is too slight a ...
Página 100
... four vigils or watches . The first began at sunrising , or six in the morning ; the second at nine ; the third at twelve ; and the fourth at three in the af- ternoon . In like manner the night was divided into four parts ; the first ...
... four vigils or watches . The first began at sunrising , or six in the morning ; the second at nine ; the third at twelve ; and the fourth at three in the af- ternoon . In like manner the night was divided into four parts ; the first ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
according acid afterwards ancient animal appears army bave bivalve blue body BOTANY BOTANY Index Britain called cards China Chinese Chiton Christ Christians church Cicero Cilicia Cimbri clock coal Coalery Colchis colour commerce common compass Conchæ conchology consists court degree divided earth ecliptic emperor empire England expence flowers France glass Greek green honour inch long India inhabitants island Italy Julius Cæsar kind king light likewise Limaçons Lord lours mandarins manner matter ment multivalves nature neral observed occasion parliament particles person pieces pinion plates prince principal produced proper province quantity river Roman Rome round Scotland Sect shell side sometimes Spain species strata stratum striæ striated substance supposed surface teeth Testa tethys thing tion town trade transversely univalve valves wheel whole Wood yellow
Passagens conhecidas
Página 356 - Like night, and darken'd all the land of Nile: So numberless were those bad Angels seen Hovering on wing under the cope of Hell, Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires...
Página 334 - ... being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected, that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own.
Página 356 - As when a vulture on Imaus bred, Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds, Dislodging from a region scarce of prey, To gorge the flesh of lambs or yeanling kids, On hills where flocks are fed, flies towards the springs Of Ganges or Hydaspes, Indian streams; But in his way lights on the barren plains Of Sericana, where Chineses drive With sails and wind their cany waggons light...
Página 355 - Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
Página 16 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Página 356 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i...
Página 357 - Romeo; and, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Página 246 - ... these primitive particles, being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces : no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.
Página 246 - These principles I consider not as occult qualities, supposed to result from the specific forms of things, but as general laws of nature by which the things themselves are formed : their truth appearing to us by phenomena, though their causes be not yet discovered. For these are manifest qualities, and their causes only are occult.
Página 354 - Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.