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... hydrometer , without mentioning the temperature : the numbers 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , & c . may reasonably be supposed to be gradations , as the figures express : perhaps they are the ounces of alka- line salt soluble in a gallon of water . But ...
... hydrometer , without mentioning the temperature : the numbers 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , & c . may reasonably be supposed to be gradations , as the figures express : perhaps they are the ounces of alka- line salt soluble in a gallon of water . But ...
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... hydrometer has hitherto been confined to one use , but this author has enumerated no less than jour uses to which it is applicable , viz . " its accuracy in showing the speci- fic gravity of fluids , " second , " its use in showing the ...
... hydrometer has hitherto been confined to one use , but this author has enumerated no less than jour uses to which it is applicable , viz . " its accuracy in showing the speci- fic gravity of fluids , " second , " its use in showing the ...
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... hydrometer one - fiftieth of an inch diameter ( a thread of glass little thicker than a horse hair ) who would submit to the trouble and caution necessary in using such an instrument ? not to mention that its range would be so limited ...
... hydrometer one - fiftieth of an inch diameter ( a thread of glass little thicker than a horse hair ) who would submit to the trouble and caution necessary in using such an instrument ? not to mention that its range would be so limited ...
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... hydrometer , thermometer , and ba- rometer , to refer such alterations to > The next thing that occurred to my my mind was , to discover how this in- strument could be employed as a ba- rometer only ; this effected by a small alteration ...
... hydrometer , thermometer , and ba- rometer , to refer such alterations to > The next thing that occurred to my my mind was , to discover how this in- strument could be employed as a ba- rometer only ; this effected by a small alteration ...
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... hydrometer , published by Job Rider . The author was very brief ,. and Barnes , were granted by patent to Sir Arthur Chichester , and by him to one of the officers in his regiment ; at length it was conveyed by assign- ment to the family ...
... hydrometer , published by Job Rider . The author was very brief ,. and Barnes , were granted by patent to Sir Arthur Chichester , and by him to one of the officers in his regiment ; at length it was conveyed by assign- ment to the family ...
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Page 394 - Tumultuous grandeur crowds the blazing square, The rattling chariots clash, the torches glare. Sure scenes like these no troubles e'er annoy ! Sure these denote one universal joy ! Are these thy serious thoughts?
Page 394 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 394 - Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds: The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth Has robbed the neighbouring fields of half their growth; His seat, where solitary sports are seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green...
Page 41 - ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
Page 331 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it ; I have killed many.; I have fully glutted my vengeance.
Page 394 - His best companions innocence and health, And his best riches ignorance of wealth. But times are altered: trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain...
Page 44 - ... and raising it out quickly, and suffering it to heat and fume ; and, by repeating this plunging and raising alternately, and agitating the lime until it be made to pass through the sieve into the water ; and let the part of the lime which does not easily pass through the sieve be rejected...
Page 211 - Currie that, at the present day, there is perhaps no country in Europe, in which, in proportion to its population, so small a number of crimes fall under the chastisement of the criminal law, as in Scotland; and he adds, upon undoubted authority, that on an average of thirty years preceding the year 1797, the executions in that division of the Island...
Page 344 - ... spindles, then reckoned a large one, differing materially in its construction from the other. In a memorial to the Dublin Society, praying for aid, from which the substance of this statement of facts...
Page 394 - But verging to decline, its splendours rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise; While, scourged by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant leads his humble band, And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms— a garden and a grave.