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Page 47 - ... may be made in an hour, than can be found in all the books now extant.
Page 159 - Can there be any thing more agreeable in the Winter, than to have a View from a Parlour or Study, through Ranges of Orange-Trees, and curious Plants of foreign Countries...
Page 135 - They were also exposed to destruction from another cause, the force of the steam ; for they had no safety-valves to regulate it, and hence the necessity of the following instructions : " When you have rais'd water enough, and you design to leave off working the engine, take away all the fire from under the boiler, and open the cock [connected to the tunnel] to let out the steam, which would otherwise, was it to remain confin'd, perhaps burst the engine," Savery, from his profession, was aware of...
Page 39 - Infeft then is nourifhed by the Juices of the Tree, and grows together with the Leaves, till all its Body is perfected ; and at the Fall of the Leaf, drops from the Tree with the Leaves growing to its Body like Wings, and then walks about...
Page 159 - Countries, bloflbming, and bearing Fruit, when our Gardens without Doors are, as it were, in a State of Death, and to walk among thofe Curiofities of Nature as in the moft temperate Climate, PART IV.
Page 26 - Creatures moving in that fmall Quantity of Water : Nay, they tell us, that becaufe they would be within Compafs , they only related half the Number that they believ'd they had feen. Now, from the...