Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 10. köide,1. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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... ELECTRICITY - Index . Lhuyd . Lucas van Lerden . See LUCAS . LEYSERA , in botany : A genus of the polyga- mia fuperflua order , belonging to the fyngenefia clafs of plants ; and the natural method ranking under the 49th order ...
... ELECTRICITY - Index . Lhuyd . Lucas van Lerden . See LUCAS . LEYSERA , in botany : A genus of the polyga- mia fuperflua order , belonging to the fyngenefia clafs of plants ; and the natural method ranking under the 49th order ...
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... electric light . There is neither fluid nor folid , he fays , through which the electric fluid in its paffage will ... electricity to make a fpark vifible in boiling than in cold water ; the former being a much better con- ductor than ...
... electric light . There is neither fluid nor folid , he fays , through which the electric fluid in its paffage will ... electricity to make a fpark vifible in boiling than in cold water ; the former being a much better con- ductor than ...
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... electric tion of all the rays but the red , I would obferve , that Spark thro ' the greater the depth of the points is below the furface , the lefs mixed are the rays . When they are deepest be- low the furface , only the red come to ...
... electric tion of all the rays but the red , I would obferve , that Spark thro ' the greater the depth of the points is below the furface , the lefs mixed are the rays . When they are deepest be- low the furface , only the red come to ...
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... electric ftroke . " De luce ani- mal , p . 183 . 206 . 34 p . 45 . In a poftfcript to this paper , by Dr Price , it is ob- ferved , that by phofphoric force , Mr Morgan feems to mean , not the force with which a phosphoric body emits ...
... electric ftroke . " De luce ani- mal , p . 183 . 206 . 34 p . 45 . In a poftfcript to this paper , by Dr Price , it is ob- ferved , that by phofphoric force , Mr Morgan feems to mean , not the force with which a phosphoric body emits ...
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... electricity ( A ) ; though he afterwards feemed inclined to think , that this pheno- menon was caused by small animals , either by their lu- minous afpect , or at least by fome liquor or effluvia which they emitted . He did not ...
... electricity ( A ) ; though he afterwards feemed inclined to think , that this pheno- menon was caused by small animals , either by their lu- minous afpect , or at least by fome liquor or effluvia which they emitted . He did not ...
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Page 292 - ... to be precarious. The nobility, therefore, are the pillars, which are reared from among the people, more immediately to support the throne; and, if that falls, they must also be buried under its ruins.
Page 21 - ... even laws themselves, whether made with or without our consent, if they regulate and constrain our conduct in matters of mere indifference...
Page 21 - This natural liberty consists properly in a power of acting as one thinks fit, without any restraint or control, unless by the law of nature; being a right inherent in us by birth, and one of the gifts of God to man at his creation, when he endued him with the faculty of free will.
Page 292 - III. ; viz. that every lord spiritual or temporal summoned to parliament, and passing through the king's forests, may, both in going and returning, kill one or two of the king's deer, without warrant, in view of the forester if he be present, or on blowing a horn if he be absent, that he may not seem to take the king's venison by stealth.
Page 355 - Her speech was the melodious voice of Love, Her song the warbling of the vernal grove ; Her eloquence was sweeter than her song, Soft...
Page 202 - This world had a beginning ; the assertion is indeed equally true, but shines not forth with the same degree of evidence. We find great difficulty in conceiving how the world could be made out of nothing : and are not brought to a free and full consent, until by reasoning we arrive at a clear view of the absurdity involved in the contrary supposition.
Page 355 - Her fong .the warbling of the vernal grove ; Her eloquence was fweeter than her fong, Soft as her heart, and as her reafon ftrong. Her form each beauty of her mind e\pref$'d, Her mind was virtue by the graces drefsM.
Page 233 - An immense forest originally extended to the river side, and, even as late as the reign of Henry II. covered the northern neighbourhood of the city, and was filled with various species of beasts of chase.
Page 292 - A body of nobility is also more peculiarly necessary in our mixed and compounded constitution, in order to support the rights of both the crown and the people, by forming a barrier to withstand the encroachments of both.
Page 392 - These being of different standing and proficiency, he was obliged to divide them into four or five classes, in each of which he employed a full hour every day, from the first of Nov. to the first of June. In the first class he taught the first six books of " Euclid's Elements," plain trigonometry, practical geometry, the elements of fortification, and an introduction to algebra.