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4. lappuse
... length of the image was dis- covered to be no other than that a ray of light is not similar or homogeneal , but that it consists of a series of rays , some of which are more refrangible than others : so that , without any difference in ...
... length of the image was dis- covered to be no other than that a ray of light is not similar or homogeneal , but that it consists of a series of rays , some of which are more refrangible than others : so that , without any difference in ...
6. lappuse
... length got into a ready method of making telescopes upon these admirable principles . His principal difficulties arose from the following circumstances : -In the first place , the focal dis- tances , as well as particular surfaces ...
... length got into a ready method of making telescopes upon these admirable principles . His principal difficulties arose from the following circumstances : -In the first place , the focal dis- tances , as well as particular surfaces ...
24. lappuse
... length was about 10 inches , and the length of its rectilinear sides about eight inches ; and ACB , the refracting angle of the " In the middle of two thin boards , DE , de ( fig . 3 ) , prism , whereby so great a length was made , was ...
... length was about 10 inches , and the length of its rectilinear sides about eight inches ; and ACB , the refracting angle of the " In the middle of two thin boards , DE , de ( fig . 3 ) , prism , whereby so great a length was made , was ...
26. lappuse
... length parallel to the of rays by which those circles are illuminated , to- length of the prism . For if this hole be an inch or gether with innumerable other sorts of intermediate two long , and but a tenth or twentieth part of an rays ...
... length parallel to the of rays by which those circles are illuminated , to- length of the prism . For if this hole be an inch or gether with innumerable other sorts of intermediate two long , and but a tenth or twentieth part of an rays ...
30. lappuse
... length of the lens ; but , if the focal length be considerable , the experimentalist must compute the focus by the subsequent rule . Measure the distance between the lens and the object , and also from the image : multiply these dis ...
... length of the lens ; but , if the focal length be considerable , the experimentalist must compute the focus by the subsequent rule . Measure the distance between the lens and the object , and also from the image : multiply these dis ...
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46. lappuse - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
136. lappuse - The gold and silver money which circulates in any country may very properly be compared to a highway, which, while it circulates and carries to market all the grass and corn of the country, produces itself not a single pile of either.
282. lappuse - For sublime objects are vast in their dimensions, beautiful ones comparatively small: beauty should be smooth and polished; the great, rugged and negligent: beauty should shun the right line, yet deviate from it insensibly; the great in many cases loves the right line; and when it deviates, it often makes a strong deviation: beauty should not be obscure; the great ought to be dark and gloomy: beauty should be light and delicate; and great ought to be solid, and even massive.
135. lappuse - The substitution of paper in the room of gold and silver money, replaces a very expensive instrument of commerce with one much less costly, and sometimes equally convenient. Circulation comes to be carried on by a new wheel, which it costs less both to erect and to maintain than the old one.
53. lappuse - Our language has received innumerable elegancies and improvements, from that infusion of Hebraisms, which are derived to it out of the poetical passages in, holy writ.
195. lappuse - ... is so essential to the subsistence of all human creatures, it is not probable that it could be trusted to the fallacious deductions of our reason, which is slow in its operations, appears not, in any degree, •during the first years of infancy, and, at best, is in every age and period of human life extremely liable to error and mistake.
195. lappuse - I shall add, for a further confirmation of the foregoing theory, that, as this operation of the mind, by which we infer like effects from like causes, and vice versa, is so essential to the subsistence of all human creatures, it is not probable that it could be trusted to the fallacious deductions of our reason, which is slow in its operations, appears not in any degree during the first years of infancy, and at best is, in every age and period of human life...
135. lappuse - ... purchase such goods as are likely to be consumed by idle people who produce nothing, such as foreign wines, foreign silks, &c. ; or, secondly, they may purchase an additional stock of materials, tools, and provisions, in order to maintain and employ an additional number of industrious people, who re-produce, with a profit, the value of their annual consumption.
215. lappuse - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way; Yet simple Nature to his hope has...