The Domestic Encyclopaedia: Or, A Dictionary of Facts, and Useful Knowledge, Comprehending a Concise View of the Latest Discoveries, Inventions, and Improvements, Chiefly Applicable to Rural and Domestic Enconomy ...Murray and Highle, 1802 |
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Page 126 - By the use of this machine, he soon found it less inconvenient to view all oblique objects with the eye next to them, instead of the eye opposite to them. After this habit was weakened, by a week's use of the gnomon, two...
Page 298 - This power works the pump, and forces the water to ascend to the house through a pipe one inch in diameter, and which is 420 feet in length. At E is fixed a cord, which, when the bucket approaches to within four or five inches of its lowest projection, extends, and opens a valve in the bottom of the vessel through which the water is discharged.
Page 381 - He continued to settle his domestic affairs ; made his will ; minutely appointed his funeral ; and even desired his friends to send for a clergyman ; which request, however, was counteracted. Night appeared — and he began to compute the hours he had to live, till the ominous next morning. His anxiety evidently increased with the striking of every clock within hearing. Dr. Hufeland was not without apprehension, when he recollected instances in which mere imagination had produced melancholy effects...
Page 308 - ... or moisture, of future seasons. 1 . A moist autumn, succeeded by a mild winter, is generally followed by a dry and cold spring ; in consequence of which, vegetation is greatly retarded. 2. Should the summer be uncommonly wet, the succeeding winter will be severe 5 because the heat or warmth of the earth will be carried off by such unusual evaporation.
Page 259 - I procured a pair of smith's bellows, fixed in a wooden frame, so as to work in the same manner as at the forge. This apparatus being placed at the edge of the well, one end of a leathern tube (the...
Page 295 - ... and w, x, are two air-pipes of lead, both internally one inch and a quarter in diameter. y, z ; y, z ; y, z ; are water-pipes, each being one inch in diameter. The pipe b, e, c, is...
Page 309 - ... and small stars will be observed moving or floating about within the vessel. Twenty-four hours before a storm, or very high wind, the substance will be partly on the surface of the liquid, apparently in the form of a leaf: the fluid in such case will be very thick, and in a state resembling fermentation.
Page 380 - This suddeu change of a cheerful young mind, naturally alarmed his friend ; but no explanation was given of its cause. Every attempt at ridiculing this whimsical notion was fruitless ; and he persisted in affirming that his death was certain and inevitable. A numerous circle of his fellow-students soon assembled, with a view to dispel those gloomy ideas, and to convince him of his folly, by arguments, satire, and mirth. He remained, however, unshaken in his strange conviction ; being apparently inanimate...
Page 381 - As no time was to be lost, there being only 24 hours left for his life, Dr. Hufeland deemed proper to direct such remedies as prove powerful excitants, in order to rouse the vital energy of his pupil, and to relieve him from his captivated fancy. Hence he prescribed a strong emetic and purgative; ordered blisters to be applied to both calves of the legs, and at the same time stimulating clysters to be administered. Quietly submitting to the Doctor's treatment, he observed, that his body being already...
Page 380 - ... hours. Early next morning he sent for professor Hufeland, who found him engaged in making arrangements for his burial ; taking an affectionate leave of his friends, and on the point of concluding a letter to his father, in which he announced the fatal catastrophe that was speedily to happen. After examining his condition of mind and body, the professor could discover no remarkable deviation from his usual state of health, except...