The Scots Magazine, Band 52Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran, 1790 |
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... common air was by means of a cock admitted ; where- upon a small gleam of light appeared in the veffel , its inner furface was vifibly covered with moisture , and the water from the tub rofe in it two or three inches , as Mercury would ...
... common air was by means of a cock admitted ; where- upon a small gleam of light appeared in the veffel , its inner furface was vifibly covered with moisture , and the water from the tub rofe in it two or three inches , as Mercury would ...
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... common water * . In applying this important discovery to the fubject of Hurricanes , may not one reasonably sus- pect , Sir , that fuch extraordinary aerial convulfions are caufed by the occafional eruptions of inflammable air , not ...
... common water * . In applying this important discovery to the fubject of Hurricanes , may not one reasonably sus- pect , Sir , that fuch extraordinary aerial convulfions are caufed by the occafional eruptions of inflammable air , not ...
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... common feaman . Caft away ! all found dead and frozen ! Buried in this grave . Reader , if not deftitute of humanity , drop a generous and commiferative tear to the memory of thefe gallant youths , in fympathy with thofe afflicted ...
... common feaman . Caft away ! all found dead and frozen ! Buried in this grave . Reader , if not deftitute of humanity , drop a generous and commiferative tear to the memory of thefe gallant youths , in fympathy with thofe afflicted ...
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... common sense of men has led them to diftinguish two parts in the human conftitution , which have influ- ence upon our voluntary determinations . There is an irrational part , common to us with brute animals , confifting of ap . petites ...
... common sense of men has led them to diftinguish two parts in the human conftitution , which have influ- ence upon our voluntary determinations . There is an irrational part , common to us with brute animals , confifting of ap . petites ...
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... common durability ; which he has had no opportunity of afcertaining . Befide the experiments already communicated to the public respecting the durability of this wood , fome private experiments prove it to be much more durable than ...
... common durability ; which he has had no opportunity of afcertaining . Befide the experiments already communicated to the public respecting the durability of this wood , fome private experiments prove it to be much more durable than ...
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Seite 475 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Seite 231 - I have observed among all nations, that the women ornament themselves more than the men ; that, wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings; that they are ever inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest.
Seite 525 - Having heard it remarked that drowned flies were capable of being revived by the rays of the sun, I proposed making the experiment upon these; they were therefore exposed to the sun upon a sieve, which had been employed to strain them out of the wine. In less than three hours, two of them began by degrees to recover life.
Seite 491 - ... no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air.
Seite 536 - ... did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds. There the tops often separated from the bodies ; and these, once disjoined, dispersed in the air, and did not appear more.
Seite 424 - ... which had uniformly and without exception followed them all. Fame, riches, and honour had been held out for a series of ages to every individual...
Seite 231 - Sennar, and from thence westward in the latitude and supposed direction of the Niger, I told him, that was the route, by which I was anxious that Africa might, if possible, be explored. He said, he should think himself singularly fortunate to be trusted with the adventure. I asked him when he would set out.
Seite 66 - That some of them have been adopted by him unnecessarily, may perhaps be allowed ; but in general they are evidently an advantage, for without them his stately ideas would be confined and cramped. "He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning.
Seite 164 - ... but, that men might in future be deterred from demanding the trial by ordeal, the appellor was committed for a week.
Seite 312 - The horrid notes my refluent waters daunt, The Echoes groan, the Dryads quit their haunt; Learning, that once to all...