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... weight or by any chemical tests . Mr. Cavallo found that a few particles of steel , adhering to a hone , on which ... pounds of another metal sensibly magnetic . A combination , with a large proportion of oxygen , de- prives iron ...
... weight or by any chemical tests . Mr. Cavallo found that a few particles of steel , adhering to a hone , on which ... pounds of another metal sensibly magnetic . A combination , with a large proportion of oxygen , de- prives iron ...
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... mass lighter than the same bulk of atmospheric air , and rise in it . This thought was suggested in his lectures ... pounds , including its own weight . Burning chopped straw and wool under the aperture of the machine , immediately ...
... mass lighter than the same bulk of atmospheric air , and rise in it . This thought was suggested in his lectures ... pounds , including its own weight . Burning chopped straw and wool under the aperture of the machine , immediately ...
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... pounds of straw , and twelve pounds of wool . The machine soon swelled , and sustained itself in the air , together with the charge of between 4 and 500 pounds weight . It was designed to repeat the experi . ment before the king , at ...
... pounds of straw , and twelve pounds of wool . The machine soon swelled , and sustained itself in the air , together with the charge of between 4 and 500 pounds weight . It was designed to repeat the experi . ment before the king , at ...
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... weight 130 pounds . Great difficulties again occurred in filling the machine , but these at last being re- moved , the two adventurers took their seats at three quarters after one in the afternoon of the 1st of December , 1783. At the ...
... weight 130 pounds . Great difficulties again occurred in filling the machine , but these at last being re- moved , the two adventurers took their seats at three quarters after one in the afternoon of the 1st of December , 1783. At the ...
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... pounds of ballast , which enabled them just to reach the water's edge . This scheme for raising or lowering ... weight of the whole would be considerably diminished or augmented . This scheme was unhappily put in execution by the ...
... pounds of ballast , which enabled them just to reach the water's edge . This scheme for raising or lowering ... weight of the whole would be considerably diminished or augmented . This scheme was unhappily put in execution by the ...
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Page 328 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua : for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
Page 2 - And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing : and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
Page 467 - Juggernaut appeared in. view, at a great distance. When the multitude first saw it, they gave a shout, and fell to the ground and worshipped. I have heard nothing to-day but shouts and acclamations by the successive bodies of pilgrims. From the place where I now stand I have a view of a host of people like an army, encamped at the outer gate of the town of Juggernaut ; where a guard of soldiers is posted to prevent their entering the town, until they have paid the pilgrim's tax.
Page 473 - But the voices I now heard, were not those of melody or of joyful acclamation ; for there is no harmony in the praise of Moloch's worshippers. Their number, indeed, brought to my mind the countless multitude of the Revelations ; but their voices gave no tuneful...
Page 328 - And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people : and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.
Page 329 - And thou shalt put it on a blue lace, that it may be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be.
Page 560 - The sculls were so tender, that they generally fell to pieces on being touched. The other bones were stronger. There were some teeth which were judged to be smaller than those of an adult ; a scull, which on a slight view, appeared to be that...
Page 560 - Appearances certainly indicate that it has derived both origin and growth from the accustomary collection of bones, and deposition of them together ; that the first collection had been deposited on the common surface of the earth, a few stones put over it, and then a covering of earth, that the second had been laid on this, had covered more or less of it in proportion to the number of bones, and was then also covered with earth ; and so on.
Page 560 - Upon the whole, the learned bishop remarks, that of the two it appears much more difficult to assign a number and bulk of necessary things to answer the capacity of the ark than to find sufficient room for the several species of animals already known to have been there.
Page 142 - ... till it crystallizes on cooling. Alter the position of every crystal, once at least every day, with a glass rod, that all the faces may be alternately exposed to the action of the liquid ; for the face on which the crystal rests never receives any increase.