The Young Gentleman and Lady's Philosophy: In a Continued Survey of the Works of Nature and Art by Way of Dialogue, כרך 3W. Owen and the author, 1782 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 69
עמוד
... MOTION , WINGS , & c . DIALOGUE II . 89 Of the PLUMAGE of BIRDS ; Of the MAKE and DISPOSITION of the FEATHERS in regard to FLIGHT and CLOATHING . DIALOGUE III . 94 On BIRDS of the largest Size , the OSTRICH , CAS- SOWARY , BUSTARD , & c ...
... MOTION , WINGS , & c . DIALOGUE II . 89 Of the PLUMAGE of BIRDS ; Of the MAKE and DISPOSITION of the FEATHERS in regard to FLIGHT and CLOATHING . DIALOGUE III . 94 On BIRDS of the largest Size , the OSTRICH , CAS- SOWARY , BUSTARD , & c ...
עמוד
... MOTION of CRABS . Of LOB- STERS , and their EYES . Of OYSTERS . Of the NAUTILUS , or Sailor . MOTHER of PEARL . PEARL - OYSTER . Of a SILK MANUFACTORY from SHELLS . Of the Land and Sea TORTOISE , or TURTLE . IX . 174 DIALOGUE ...
... MOTION of CRABS . Of LOB- STERS , and their EYES . Of OYSTERS . Of the NAUTILUS , or Sailor . MOTHER of PEARL . PEARL - OYSTER . Of a SILK MANUFACTORY from SHELLS . Of the Land and Sea TORTOISE , or TURTLE . IX . 174 DIALOGUE ...
עמוד
... MOTIONS ofFIRE - WORKS . Of a fimple retrograde WATER MILL . Of the SPOUTING of FLUIDS . Of the different Sorts of ... MOTION . Of the two fimple Me- chanical POWERS , the LEVER , and the inclined PLANE . Of the PULLEY , WHEEL and AXLE ...
... MOTIONS ofFIRE - WORKS . Of a fimple retrograde WATER MILL . Of the SPOUTING of FLUIDS . Of the different Sorts of ... MOTION . Of the two fimple Me- chanical POWERS , the LEVER , and the inclined PLANE . Of the PULLEY , WHEEL and AXLE ...
עמוד 2
... Motion . Cleon . You are right , my Euphrofyne , LIFE itself is nothing but the Continuance of fuch a State of Senfibility . When we cease to be fenfible , we ceafe to live . - I have already fhewn you that the Nerves are , by the all ...
... Motion . Cleon . You are right , my Euphrofyne , LIFE itself is nothing but the Continuance of fuch a State of Senfibility . When we cease to be fenfible , we ceafe to live . - I have already fhewn you that the Nerves are , by the all ...
עמוד 4
... Motions in the Heart , and exerted with fo much Force , and we at the fame time altogether infen- fible of it ? So quietly is this great Work performed , that I fhould never have known I had a Heart , if I had not been told told fo , or ...
... Motions in the Heart , and exerted with fo much Force , and we at the fame time altogether infen- fible of it ? So quietly is this great Work performed , that I fhould never have known I had a Heart , if I had not been told told fo , or ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
alfo almoft alſo Animal Animalcules appears becauſe Birds Body Brafs Cafe called Chyle Clean Cleon Colour common confequently confiderable confifts Creature curious Defcription Defign DIALOGUE Diſtance eafily Earth Euphrof Euphrofyne Eyes faid fame Feathers feems feen Feet feven feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould Fifh fince fingular firft Fiſh Fluid fmall fome fometimes foon Form ftill ftriking ftrong fuch fuppofe fure Glafs greateſt Head Holes Hydrometer Inches Infect Inftance itſelf juft Kind laft leaft lefs Legs Microſcope moft moſt Motion muft muſt Nature Number obferve Philofophical Piece placed Plant pleaſe Pleaſure Pofition Pound Weight Power pray Cleonicus prefent Preffure Purpoſe Quadrupedes raiſe Reafon refpect retrograde Motion rife ſeen Shell Side ſmall Sort Species Spermaceti Subftance Surface Tail thefe theſe thing thofe thoſe Tree Tube underſtand uſed Veffels Vegetation View Water Weight Whale Wings wonderful
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 114 - Fear made her Devils, and weak Hope her Gods; Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were Rage, Revenge, or Lust; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe.
עמוד 123 - It is near six inches in length from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, the former being about half an inch, and the latter two inches and a half.
עמוד 122 - A rdla cinerXa ) is about 3 feet in length from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, builds its nest in high trees, many being sometimes on one tree.
עמוד 26 - Lama. 491 holes, which were the orifices of about twenty cavities, made like sacs, placed between the two membranes which do compose the substance of this ventricle. The view of these...
עמוד 111 - How rich the Peacock ! what bright glories run From plume to plume, and vary in the sun ; He proudly spreads them to the golden ray, Gives all his colours, and adorns the day : With conscious state the spacious round displays, And slowly moves amid the waving blaze.
עמוד 228 - Each seed includes a plant: that plant, again, Has other seeds, which other plants contain : Those other plants have all their seeds; and those, More plants, again, successively inclose.
עמוד 126 - When, homeward from their wat'ry pastures borne, They sing, and Asia's lakes their notes return. Not one who heard their music from afar, Would think these troops an army...
עמוד 134 - Art- (z) do thefe poor untaught Creatures lay a parcel of rude and ugly. Sticks and Straws, Mofs and Dirt together, and form them into commodious Nefts! With what...
עמוד 36 - Each beast, each insect, happy in its own: Is Heav'n unkind to Man, and Man alone? Shall he alone, whom rational we call, Be pleas'd with nothing, if not bless'd with all?