The British Cyclopaedia of the Arts, Sciences, History, Geography, Literature, Natural History, and Biography ...Wm. S. Orr and Company, 1838 |
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1.5. rezultāts no 100.
11. lappuse
... organs by passing over the highly reflecting surface of a plain of sand . In order to procure a common standard by which to measure the proportion of light reflected from va- rious fluid subsances , Mr. Bouguer selected water as the ...
... organs by passing over the highly reflecting surface of a plain of sand . In order to procure a common standard by which to measure the proportion of light reflected from va- rious fluid subsances , Mr. Bouguer selected water as the ...
32. lappuse
... organs of speech and the mode of remedying defects in their formation will be examined under the article VOICE , and ... organ of speech was consecrated to him . He was likewise said to be the interpreter or messenger of the gods , as he ...
... organs of speech and the mode of remedying defects in their formation will be examined under the article VOICE , and ... organ of speech was consecrated to him . He was likewise said to be the interpreter or messenger of the gods , as he ...
55. lappuse
... organs of speech have not their proper tone . A strong voice is serviceable to an orator ; but he who has a weak one should be careful not to strain it . He ought to begin low , and rise gradually to such a pitch as the key of his voice ...
... organs of speech have not their proper tone . A strong voice is serviceable to an orator ; but he who has a weak one should be careful not to strain it . He ought to begin low , and rise gradually to such a pitch as the key of his voice ...
56. lappuse
... organs of speech , but is often the effect of a bad habit . Some , either from want of due care at first or from inad- vertency and negligence afterwards , run into a very irregular and confused manner of expressing their words , either ...
... organs of speech , but is often the effect of a bad habit . Some , either from want of due care at first or from inad- vertency and negligence afterwards , run into a very irregular and confused manner of expressing their words , either ...
63. lappuse
... organ pipes , and other deli- cate work . Banca tin from Siam , in flat blocks of 120 or 130 lbs . , is also very pure . The German tin is mostly found in the form of an oxide , and smelted in blast - furnaces , which in dif- ferent ...
... organ pipes , and other deli- cate work . Banca tin from Siam , in flat blocks of 120 or 130 lbs . , is also very pure . The German tin is mostly found in the form of an oxide , and smelted in blast - furnaces , which in dif- ferent ...
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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...