A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and Derivations of the Scientific Terms in General Use, Together with the History and Descriptions of the Scientific Principles of Nearly Every Branch of Human Knowledge, Volume 2William Thomas Brande, George William Cox Longmans, Green, and Company, 1875 |
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... quantity of coals distilled was inconsiderable . I kept this spirit in the bladders a considerable time , and en- deavoured in several ways to condense it , but in vain ; and when I had a mind to divert strangers or friends , I have ...
... quantity of coals distilled was inconsiderable . I kept this spirit in the bladders a considerable time , and en- deavoured in several ways to condense it , but in vain ; and when I had a mind to divert strangers or friends , I have ...
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... quantity of gas will be increased , its quality will be greatly deteriorated ; if too low , the quantity of tar will be augmented , and the amount of the gas for illuminating purposes proportionally diminished . From the condensers the ...
... quantity of gas will be increased , its quality will be greatly deteriorated ; if too low , the quantity of tar will be augmented , and the amount of the gas for illuminating purposes proportionally diminished . From the condensers the ...
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... quantity of any other body . Metals are usu- ally covered with gold by various processes : one of these , called water - gilding , is now almost disused : it consisted in perfectly cleaning their surface , and then , in the case of ...
... quantity of any other body . Metals are usu- ally covered with gold by various processes : one of these , called water - gilding , is now almost disused : it consisted in perfectly cleaning their surface , and then , in the case of ...
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... quantity of oxide of lead , and frequently borate of lead . It is easily fusible , highly refractive , and very soft . [ GEMS , ARTI- FICIAL . ] GLASS PAINTING 5. Copper : the protoxide gives a rich green , and the dioxide a ruby red ...
... quantity of oxide of lead , and frequently borate of lead . It is easily fusible , highly refractive , and very soft . [ GEMS , ARTI- FICIAL . ] GLASS PAINTING 5. Copper : the protoxide gives a rich green , and the dioxide a ruby red ...
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... quantity of gold con- tained in silver coin , which used to pass unheeded , is extracted by sulphuric acid ; the recently coined silver will accordingly be found , in most cases , destitute of those traces of gold which are contained in ...
... quantity of gold con- tained in silver coin , which used to pass unheeded , is extracted by sulphuric acid ; the recently coined silver will accordingly be found , in most cases , destitute of those traces of gold which are contained in ...
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Page 273 - Albeit that Good Works, which are the fruits of Faith, and follow after Justification, cannot put away our sins, and endure the severity of God's Judgment ; yet are they pleasing and acceptable to God in Christ, and do spring out necessarily of a true and lively Faith ; insomuch that by them a lively Faith may be as evidently known as a tree discerned by the fruit.
Page 397 - Whatever phenomenon varies in any manner whenever another phenomenon varies in some particular manner, is either a cause or an effect of that phenomenon, or is connected with it through some fact of causation.
Page 308 - For it is evident, we observe no footsteps in them, of making use of general signs for universal ideas; from which we have reason to imagine, that they have not the faculty of abstracting, or making general ideas, since they have no use of words, or any other general signs.
Page 66 - SPECIFIC GRAVITY. THE Specific Gravity of a body, is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of some other body assumed as a standard.
Page 397 - If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.
Page 313 - I doubt not, but if we could trace them to their sources, we should find in all languages the names which stand for things that fall not under our senses, to have had their first rise from sensible ideas.
Page 353 - His scales are his pride, Shut up together as with a close seal. One is so near to another, That no air can come between them. They are joined one to another, They stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
Page 116 - Act, shall not in any wise have authority or power to order, determine or adjudge any matter or cause to be heresy, but only such as heretofore have been determined, ordered or adjudged to be heresy by the authority of the canonical Scriptures, or by the first four General Councils, or any of them, or by any other General Council wherein the same was declared heresy by the express and plain words of the said canonical Scriptures...
Page 272 - ENACTED, that, On every Such trial, the jury sworn to try the issue may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue...
Page 397 - If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation occurs, and an instance in which it does not occur, have every circumstance in common save one, that one occurring in the former; the circumstance in which alone the two instances differ, is the effect, or the cause, or an indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon.