Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Zväzok 2,Časť 1Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Strana 5
... must make an affignation with Mars , or this folution will have no effect . In plain English , a quantity of iron must be immerfed in the water . The kind of iron is of no moment ; old pots , hoops , anchors , or any re- fufe will ...
... must make an affignation with Mars , or this folution will have no effect . In plain English , a quantity of iron must be immerfed in the water . The kind of iron is of no moment ; old pots , hoops , anchors , or any re- fufe will ...
Strana 6
... must be a plummet faftened to this box to fink it , and a line to draw it back at pleasure ; in this cafe it is to be thrown into the water in a pro- per place , above which the angler may stand under co- ver . The worms will flowly and ...
... must be a plummet faftened to this box to fink it , and a line to draw it back at pleasure ; in this cafe it is to be thrown into the water in a pro- per place , above which the angler may stand under co- ver . The worms will flowly and ...
Strana 23
... must suppose them to fuffer pain when they are cut or deftroyed ; and , if fo , what an unhappy state must they be in , who have not the leaft power to avoid the injuries daily offered them ? In fact , the goodness of the Deity is very ...
... must suppose them to fuffer pain when they are cut or deftroyed ; and , if fo , what an unhappy state must they be in , who have not the leaft power to avoid the injuries daily offered them ? In fact , the goodness of the Deity is very ...
Strana 46
... must be had to tables of annuities on compound interest . PROB . 6. The rate of intereft , and the rent of a freehold state in reversion ,, given , to find the present worth or value of the reverfion . By Prob 1. find the price or ...
... must be had to tables of annuities on compound interest . PROB . 6. The rate of intereft , and the rent of a freehold state in reversion ,, given , to find the present worth or value of the reverfion . By Prob 1. find the price or ...
Strana 50
... must be owned , are intricate , had been affigned ; but this could not be done without entering deeper into the fubje & than was practicable in this place . Sec CHANCES . ANNUITIES ( Borrowing upon ) ; one of the methods Annuity ...
... must be owned , are intricate , had been affigned ; but this could not be done without entering deeper into the fubje & than was practicable in this place . Sec CHANCES . ANNUITIES ( Borrowing upon ) ; one of the methods Annuity ...
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Strana 329 - I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart of a King, and of a King of England too...
Strana 71 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
Strana 377 - ... spontaneously; but if a man plants ten of them in his lifetime, which he may do in about an hour, he will as completely fulfil his duty to his own and future generations, as the native of our less temperate climate can do by ploughing in the cold of winter, and reaping in the summer's heat, as often as these seasons return...
Strana 91 - ... in a bed of water. In order, however, to be more certain, we sent in a Levantine mariner, who, by the promise of a good reward, ventured, with a flambeau in his hand, into this narrow aperture.
Strana 139 - ... being paid in proportion to the little work which he could execute, and paying in his turn for the materials which he might sometimes spoil through awkwardness and inexperience.
Strana 141 - ), would have been by the rules of the common law disappropriated, had not a clause in those statutes intervened, to give them to the king in as ample a manner as the abbots, &c. formerly held the same, at the time of their dissolution.
Strana 223 - I would call the SAXON architecture. But our Norman works had a very different original. When the Goths had conquered Spain, and the genial warmth of the climate, and the religion of the old inhabitants...
Strana 215 - ... and that it is the more permanent, in proportion as it recedes the more from its natural colour. Prepared archil very readily gives out its colour to water, to volatile spirits, and to alcohol ; it is the substance principally made use of for colouring the spirits of thermometers.
Strana 50 - An annuity for a long term of years, therefore, though its intrinsic value may be very nearly the same with that of a perpetual annuity, will not find nearly the same number of purchasers. The subscribers to a new loan, who mean generally to...
Strana 91 - ... a table. Upon our egress from this amazing cavern, we perceived a Greek inscription upon a rock at the mouth, but so obliterated by time, that we could not read it distinctly.