The Edinburgh Magazine, Or, Literary Miscellany, Zväzok 4

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J. Sibbald, Parliament-Square, 1794
 

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Strana 324 - in any part of • the world, thofe who are free, are ' by far the moft proud and jealous ' of their freedom. Freedom is to ' them not only an enjoyment, but a ' kind of rank and privilege. Not ' feeing there, that freedom, as in ' countries where it is a common
Strana 433 - is held there by attraction, and augmented by fucceeding vibrations, till the matter has received as much as their force can drive into it ? Is it not thus that the furface of this globe is continually heated by fuch repeated vibrations in the day, and cooled by the efcape of the heat when thofe vibrations are
Strana 324 - and, emboldened by this idea, approaches his employer with extended hand, and a freedom, which, in the countries of Europe, is feldom difplayed by men in the lower orders of life towards their fuperiors. It is not difficult to trace the origin of this principle. It arifes, without doubt, from the pre-eminence and
Strana 433 - proper quantity, they are in health, and fit to perform all their functions; it is then called natural heat) when too much, it is called fever; and when forced into the body in too great a quantity from without, it gives pain by feparating and destroying the
Strana 347 - to Dr Robertfon the defign of examining, more fully than he had done in his Hiftory of America, into the knowledge which the Ancients had of India, and of confidering what is certain, what is obfcure, and what is fabulous, in their accounts of that
Strana 86 - and immediately aiming at his life. It is extended to every thing wilfully and deliberately done, or attempted, whereby his life may be endangered ; and therefore the entering into meafures for depofing or imprifoning him, or to get his
Strana 362 - time to dry, which, if the air happens to be damp, requires fome days. 8. They muft then be taken down ? laid together, and again prefled. 9. They muft be pafted together at their edges. , 10. The whole muft be glazed, by labour, with a flint. In China, if they would make
Strana 347 - to it by the Cape of Good Hope : with an Appendix, containing Obfervations on the Civil Polity, the Laws and Judicial Proceedings, the Art?, the Sciences, and Religious Institutions of the
Strana 433 - from the fuel being left in the ftone. May not this fluid, when at liberty, be capable of penetrating and entering into all bodies, organized or not ; quitting eafily in totality thofe not organized, and quitting eafily in part thofe
Strana 362 - to force out the water. 4. Then the blankets are to be taken away, one by one, and the iheets hung up to dry. 5. When dry they are to be again prefled, or, if to be fiz,ed, they muft be dipped into fiz.e made of warm •water,

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