Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 2. köide,1. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1801 |
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Page 46
... needles , they gave the preference to thefe articles ; and this choice does honour to the good fenfe of the Kabobiqua ladies . Like their chief , they fet a higher value on utility than ornament . Before our author's arrival among them ...
... needles , they gave the preference to thefe articles ; and this choice does honour to the good fenfe of the Kabobiqua ladies . Like their chief , they fet a higher value on utility than ornament . Before our author's arrival among them ...
Page 59
... needle , which seemed to us to be gold each of them had a dagger , the handle of which was gold alfo . Their canoes ... needles are not of themfelves a proof of wealth . " Our author , by observation , found the lati- tude of Kumi to be ...
... needle , which seemed to us to be gold each of them had a dagger , the handle of which was gold alfo . Their canoes ... needles are not of themfelves a proof of wealth . " Our author , by observation , found the lati- tude of Kumi to be ...
Page 68
... needle - work with figures of birds , infects , flowers , or fruit , and ftretched on neat frames of wood . Others , however , were very different , being entirely made of horn . These were fo thin and transparent , that they were taken ...
... needle - work with figures of birds , infects , flowers , or fruit , and ftretched on neat frames of wood . Others , however , were very different , being entirely made of horn . These were fo thin and transparent , that they were taken ...
Page 115
... needle of the ma- riner's compaís . In this , as in the former experiment , the ends of the pieces of iron are obferved , in general , to be indifferent ; that is , either end of the one will attract either end of the other . It often ...
... needle of the ma- riner's compaís . In this , as in the former experiment , the ends of the pieces of iron are obferved , in general , to be indifferent ; that is , either end of the one will attract either end of the other . It often ...
Page 116
... needle was 30 ° , it caufed it to decline 15o . When the obliquity was 75 ° , the diftance being the fame , it declined 30 ° . Call the obliquity o , and the declination d , and let ƒ be that function of the angle which is pro ...
... needle was 30 ° , it caufed it to decline 15o . When the obliquity was 75 ° , the diftance being the fame , it declined 30 ° . Call the obliquity o , and the declination d , and let ƒ be that function of the angle which is pro ...
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Page 36 - Italian, he fpoke and wrote with the greateft fluency and precifion ; and the German and Portuguefe were familiar to him. At an early period of life, his application to oriental literature commenced ; he...
Page 74 - I have observed among all nations, that the women ornament themselves more than the men ; that, wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings; that they are ever inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest.
Page 396 - At first they could not be persuaded of the reality of the appearance ; but they soon became so thoroughly convinced, by the cliffs gradually appearing more elevated, and approaching nearer, as it were, that they pointed out, and named to me, the different places they had been accustomed to visit ; such as the Bay, the Old Head or Man, the Windmill, &c. at Boulogne ; St. Vallery, and other places on the coast of Picardy ; which they afterwards confirmed, when they viewed them through their telescopes.
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Page 382 - The medicated tar above mentioned, as ufed in the foregoing experiments, was compofed of one quarter of an ounce of corrofive fublimate, reduced to fine powder, by beating with a wooden hammer, and then put into a three-pint earthen pipkin, with about a glafs full of gin, or otfier fpirit, ftirred well together, and the fublimate thus diffolved.
Page 110 - It would be easy to shew it if he had it; but whence could it be had? It is too long to be remembered, and the language formerly had nothing written.