The Table Book of Daily Recreation and Information: Concerning Remarkable Men and Manners, Times and Seasons, Solemnities and Merrymakings, Antiquities and Novelties, on the Plan of the Every-day Book Year Book ... Forming a Complete History of the Year; and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac, Volumes 1-2W. Tegg and Company, 1828 - Amusements |
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Page 173
... cause of the act of Edward III . was that plague which wasted Europe from 1347 to 1349 , and destroyed a great proportion of its inhabitants . The consequent scarcity of labourers , and the high price demanded for labour , caused those ...
... cause of the act of Edward III . was that plague which wasted Europe from 1347 to 1349 , and destroyed a great proportion of its inhabitants . The consequent scarcity of labourers , and the high price demanded for labour , caused those ...
Page 633
... cause of thunder , makes him assign it to the action of the com- pressed air in a cloud , which dilating itself bursts it , and , violently agitating the exterior air , sets itself on fire , and by the rapidity of its progress occasions ...
... cause of thunder , makes him assign it to the action of the com- pressed air in a cloud , which dilating itself bursts it , and , violently agitating the exterior air , sets itself on fire , and by the rapidity of its progress occasions ...
Page 635
... cause of tides to the activity of the earth's vortex , in conjunction with that of the moon . Pliny's account has more affinity to that of sir Isaac Newton . The great naturalist of the ancients maintained , that " the sun and moon had ...
... cause of tides to the activity of the earth's vortex , in conjunction with that of the moon . Pliny's account has more affinity to that of sir Isaac Newton . The great naturalist of the ancients maintained , that " the sun and moon had ...
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