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... surface of any medium on which it falls . - ANGLE OF LONGITUDE , in astronomy , the angle which a circle of a star's longitude makes with the meridian at the pole of the ecliptic . - ANGLE OF PARALLAX , the angle made by two lines ...
... surface of any medium on which it falls . - ANGLE OF LONGITUDE , in astronomy , the angle which a circle of a star's longitude makes with the meridian at the pole of the ecliptic . - ANGLE OF PARALLAX , the angle made by two lines ...
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... surface of the ground , & c . In London and its vici- nity there are now a great many of these wells , which have been perforated through the immensely thick bed of London clay , and even through some portions of the sub- jacent chalk ...
... surface of the ground , & c . In London and its vici- nity there are now a great many of these wells , which have been perforated through the immensely thick bed of London clay , and even through some portions of the sub- jacent chalk ...
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... surface of the earth is said to be equivalent to that of a globe of lead of sixty miles in diameter . Admitting therefore the surface of a man's body to be about 15 square feet , and the pressure about 15lb . on a square inch , it is ...
... surface of the earth is said to be equivalent to that of a globe of lead of sixty miles in diameter . Admitting therefore the surface of a man's body to be about 15 square feet , and the pressure about 15lb . on a square inch , it is ...
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... surface increases gradu- ally from the poles to the equator . 3. The mean temperature of the atmosphere de- creases from below upwards in a regular gradation . 4. The heating and cooling of the atmosphere , by the changes of day and ...
... surface increases gradu- ally from the poles to the equator . 3. The mean temperature of the atmosphere de- creases from below upwards in a regular gradation . 4. The heating and cooling of the atmosphere , by the changes of day and ...
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... surface is concave , it is sinking ; 3 , If the surface is plain , or rather a little convex , the mercury is stationary ; 4 , If the glass is small , shake the tube , and if the air is grown heavier , the mercury will rise about half ...
... surface is concave , it is sinking ; 3 , If the surface is plain , or rather a little convex , the mercury is stationary ; 4 , If the glass is small , shake the tube , and if the air is grown heavier , the mercury will rise about half ...
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Page 163 - 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 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 :
Page 163 - 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 163 - Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of this kingdom of England, and the dominions thereto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same?
Page 248 - Equity, then, in its true and genuine meaning, is the soul and spirit of all law: positive law is construed, and rational law is made, by it. In this, equity is synonymous to justice ; in that, to the true sense and sound interpretation of the rule.
Page 404 - 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 275 - In the reciprocal services of lord and vassal there was ample scope for every magnanimous and disinterested energy. The heart of man, when placed in circumstances which have a tendency to excite them, will seldom be deficient in such sentiments.
Page 404 - They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks...
Page 167 - The court-leet, or view of frankpledge,(x) which is a court of record, held once in the year, and not oftener,(^) within a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet: being the king's court, granted by charter to the lords of those hundreds or manors.
Page 257 - I say, then, that we have the knowledge of our own existence by intuition; of the existence of God by demonstration; and of other things by sensation.
Page 315 - A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curve line, called the Circumference, which is every where equidistant from a certain point within, called its Centre.