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... must apply the faid Minutes to the Apparent Time , and the Sum or Difference will be the exact Equal Time required ; to which you muff fet your Clock or Watch . Example I. Suppofe Feb. 16 , I obferve by a good Sun- Dial when it is ...
... must apply the faid Minutes to the Apparent Time , and the Sum or Difference will be the exact Equal Time required ; to which you muff fet your Clock or Watch . Example I. Suppofe Feb. 16 , I obferve by a good Sun- Dial when it is ...
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... must exhibit for fome confiderable time this mixture : Take Poteftates Hyfterica 60 or 70 drops ; volatile falt of amber feven grains ; mix them for a dofe , which give in a glass of cold water . Whatsoever part of the body the disease ...
... must exhibit for fome confiderable time this mixture : Take Poteftates Hyfterica 60 or 70 drops ; volatile falt of amber feven grains ; mix them for a dofe , which give in a glass of cold water . Whatsoever part of the body the disease ...
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... must needs be fo too , though defcribed in equal times , in Fig . 1 . You muft conceive it to be fo now , as you do not think of the Sun's attraction . Since therefore thofe areas are always proportional to the times , that proportion ...
... must needs be fo too , though defcribed in equal times , in Fig . 1 . You muft conceive it to be fo now , as you do not think of the Sun's attraction . Since therefore thofe areas are always proportional to the times , that proportion ...
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... must find in the Table . Example , What is the Intereft of 100. for 365 Days at 5 per Cent . No. of Days 365 multiply by 100 Then in the Table againft 1000 2 14 9 2,14 5 Rate p.Cent . 1825100 Product 36500 multiply hy And against 800 20 ...
... must find in the Table . Example , What is the Intereft of 100. for 365 Days at 5 per Cent . No. of Days 365 multiply by 100 Then in the Table againft 1000 2 14 9 2,14 5 Rate p.Cent . 1825100 Product 36500 multiply hy And against 800 20 ...
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... must have fwallowed down , though ever fo fcrupulous , the vortical Noftrum of Des Cartes , who likewife , by the fame Means , muft have continued among the peripatetic Schoolmen , without feeing any Thing but the occult Qualities of ...
... must have fwallowed down , though ever fo fcrupulous , the vortical Noftrum of Des Cartes , who likewife , by the fame Means , muft have continued among the peripatetic Schoolmen , without feeing any Thing but the occult Qualities of ...
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Page 5 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 5 - Imprints a different bias, and to each Decrees its province in the common toil. To some she taught the fabric of the sphere, The changeful moon, the circuit of the stars, The golden zones of...
Page 13 - ... prodigies and predictions. For as it is the chief concern of wise men to retrench the evils of life by the reasonings of philosophy, it is the employment of fools to multiply them by the sentiments of superstition.
Page 5 - The golden zones of heaven; to some she gave To weigh the moment of eternal things, Of time, and space, and fate's unbroken chain, And will's quick impulse; others by the hand She led o'er vales and mountains, to explore What healing virtue swells the tender veins Of herbs and flowers...
Page 17 - Henry I, Stephen, Henry II, Richard I, John, Henry III, Ed-ward I, Edward II, Edward III, Richard II, Henry IV...
Page 13 - Sibyls, that fore- bodes and prophefies from one end of the year to the other. She is always feeing apparitions and hearing death-watches ; and was the other day almoft frighted out of her wits by the great houfe-dog, that howled ia the liable at a time when me lay ill of the tooth-ach.
Page 14 - Though I know neither the time nor the manner of the death I am to die, I am not at all solicitous about it; because I am sure that he knows them both, and that he will not fail to comfort and support me under them.