Pocket Encyclopedia: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Polite Literature, Volume 3Edward Augustus Kendall Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, 1811 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... causes the metal to stick to it more firmly than even such a substance as turpentine . This he repeats four times , always rolling hot metal , thus attached to the end of his instrument , on a piece of plate - iron , over which is a ...
... causes the metal to stick to it more firmly than even such a substance as turpentine . This he repeats four times , always rolling hot metal , thus attached to the end of his instrument , on a piece of plate - iron , over which is a ...
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... caused to open in length , and in the end falls like a sheet of paper , into the flat form requisite for use ; and in which it is preserved by beating it again , cooling it on a table of copper , and hardening it , during twenty - four ...
... caused to open in length , and in the end falls like a sheet of paper , into the flat form requisite for use ; and in which it is preserved by beating it again , cooling it on a table of copper , and hardening it , during twenty - four ...
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... cause , or creator of the Universe , and the only true object of religious worship . God , says sir Isaac Newton , is a relative term , and has respect to servants . It but every COL denotes an eternal , infinite , absolutely 8 GOD ing ...
... cause , or creator of the Universe , and the only true object of religious worship . God , says sir Isaac Newton , is a relative term , and has respect to servants . It but every COL denotes an eternal , infinite , absolutely 8 GOD ing ...
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... caused a dreadful pestilence by the stench which they made by their dead bodies . GUARDS , in military economy , and in a particular sense , the troops that are designed to guard the king's person and palace ; and which consist both of ...
... caused a dreadful pestilence by the stench which they made by their dead bodies . GUARDS , in military economy , and in a particular sense , the troops that are designed to guard the king's person and palace ; and which consist both of ...
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... , this writ directed to such detainer , commands him to produce the body of the prisoner , with the date and cause of his caption and detention , to do , submit to , 3 and receive , whatsoever the judge or court , HAB ...
... , this writ directed to such detainer , commands him to produce the body of the prisoner , with the date and cause of his caption and detention , to do , submit to , 3 and receive , whatsoever the judge or court , HAB ...
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Page 359 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by the law? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them? King or queen: All this I promise to do.
Page 45 - This is a high prerogative writ, and therefore by the common law issuing out of the court of king's bench not only in term-time, but also during the vacation, by a fiat from the chief justice or any other of the judges, and running into all parts of the king's dominions; for the king is at all times entitled to have an account, why the liberty of any of his subjects is restrained, wherever that restraint may be inflicted.
Page 319 - Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon.
Page 5 - A Proposition, is something which is either proposed to be done, or to be demonstrated, and is either a problem or a theorem.
Page 5 - A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line called the circumference, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre ; as ABD E.
Page 228 - But every man, when he enters into society, gives up a part of his natural liberty, as the price of so valuable a purchase ; and in consideration of receiving the advantages of mutual commerce, obliges himself to conform to those laws, which the community has thought proper to establish.
Page 361 - Odin is believed to have been the name of the one true god among the first colonies who came from the East, and peopled Germany and Scandinavia, and among their posterity for several ages.
Page 327 - The study of natural history, simple, beautiful, and instructive, consists in the collection, arrangement, and exhibition of the various productions of the earth.
Page 333 - Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Page 144 - An indictment is a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanor, preferred to, and presented upon oath by, a grand jury.