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Page 107
... rivers , that now flow so calmly , would all be frightful torrents . " Why does the friction of various woods against each other vary ? Because of their different degrees of hardness ; the soft woods in general giving more resistance ...
... rivers , that now flow so calmly , would all be frightful torrents . " Why does the friction of various woods against each other vary ? Because of their different degrees of hardness ; the soft woods in general giving more resistance ...
Page 122
... river Don forced a mass of 400 or 500 tons of stones , many of 200 or 300 pounds weight . up an inclined plane , rising 6 feet in 8 or 10 yards . A stone of 3 or 4 tons , was likewise moved out of a deep pool of the river , 100 yards ...
... river Don forced a mass of 400 or 500 tons of stones , many of 200 or 300 pounds weight . up an inclined plane , rising 6 feet in 8 or 10 yards . A stone of 3 or 4 tons , was likewise moved out of a deep pool of the river , 100 yards ...
Page 132
... river Mississip- pi , which flows at the rate of five or six miles an hour , it was the practice of the boatmen , who brought down the produce of the interior to New Orleans , to break up their boats , sell the timber , and 60 KNOWLEDGE ...
... river Mississip- pi , which flows at the rate of five or six miles an hour , it was the practice of the boatmen , who brought down the produce of the interior to New Orleans , to break up their boats , sell the timber , and 60 KNOWLEDGE ...
Page 133
... river from New Orleans to Pittsburgh , a distance of about two thousand miles , could hardly be accomplished , with the most laborious efforts , within a period of four months . This voyage is now made by steam - boats , with ease , in ...
... river from New Orleans to Pittsburgh , a distance of about two thousand miles , could hardly be accomplished , with the most laborious efforts , within a period of four months . This voyage is now made by steam - boats , with ease , in ...
Page 136
... river of water to gush out from the bowels of the earth . Why are the improved paddle - wheels of steam - boats made to enter the water sideways ? Because they give the propelling stroke direct , whereas the ordinary wheels press the ...
... river of water to gush out from the bowels of the earth . Why are the improved paddle - wheels of steam - boats made to enter the water sideways ? Because they give the propelling stroke direct , whereas the ordinary wheels press the ...
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Page 67 - I'll not leave thee, thou lone one ! To pine on the stem ; Since the lovely are sleeping, Go, sleep thou with them ; Thus kindly I scatter Thy leaves o'er the bed, Where thy mates of the garden Lie scentless and dead. So soon may I follow, When friendships decay, And from love's shining circle The gems drop away ! When true hearts lie wither'd, And fond ones are flown, Oh ! who would inhabit This bleak world alone ? The young May moon, •
Page 254 - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Page 59 - Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid ; Fly away, fly away, breath ; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O, prepare it ! My part of death, no one so true Did share it. Not a flower, not a flower sweet, On my black coffin let there be strown ; Not a friend, not a friend greet My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown : A thousand thousand sighs to save, Lay me, O, where Sad true lover never find my grave, To weep there ! Duke.
Page 214 - Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus Comes at the last and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!
Page 42 - Potter, while a tutor of Trinity college, I knew right well, whipt his pupil with his sword by his side, when he came to take his leave of him to go to the inns of court.
Page 8 - Marriage comes in on the i3th day of January, and at Septuagesima Sunday it is out again until Low Sunday ; at which time it comes in again, and goes not out until Rogation Sunday ; thence it is forbidden until Trinity Sunday, from whence it is unforbidden until Advent Sunday ; but then it goes out and comes not in again till the 13th day of January next following.
Page 24 - Trenchmore, and the Cushion-Dance, and then all the Company dance, Lord and Groom, Lady and Kitchen-Maid, no distinction. So in our Court, in Queen Elizabeth's time, Gravity and State were kept up. In King James's time things were pretty well. But in King Charles's time, there has been nothing but Trenchmore, and the Cushion-Dance, omnium gatherum, tolly-polly, hoite cum toite.
Page 41 - The gentry and citizens had little learning of any kind, and their way of breeding up their children was suitable to the rest. They were as severe to their children as their schoolmasters, and their schoolmasters as masters of the house of correction : the child perfectly loathed the sight of his parents as the stave his torture.
Page 3 - ... countries, in order to procure to himself this indulgence, the market is supplied with two important articles of provision, by the instrumentality of a merchandise which has no other apparent use than the gratification of a vitiated palate.* — Paley.
Page 63 - In the year 1589 the ingenious William Lee, Master of Arts, of St. John's College, Cambridge, devised this profitable art for stockings (but being despised went to France) ; yet of iron to himself, but to us and others of gold, in memory of whom this is here painted.