The Cyclopædia; Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature: STA-SZYLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, Paternoster-Row, F. C. and J. Rivington, A. Strahan, Payne and Foss, Scatcherd and Letterman, J. Cuthell, Clarke and sons, Lackington Hughes Harding Mavor and Jones, J. and A. Arch, Cadell and Davies, S. Bagster, J. Mawman, James Black and Son, Black Kingsbury Parbury and Allen, R. Scholey, J. Booth, J. Booker, Suttaby Evance and Fox, Baldwin Cradock and Joy, Sherwood Neely and Jones, R. Saunders, Hurst Robinson and Company, J. Dickinson, J. Paterson, E. Whiteside, Wilson and Sons, and Brodie and Dowding., 1819 |
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Pagina 48 - I intend, in many cases, to employ the expansive force of steam to press on the pistons, or whatever may be used instead of them, in the same manner...
Pagina 4 - I say, securities for debts acknowledged to be due; and originally permitted only among traders, for the benefit of commerce ; whereby not only the body of the debtor may be imprisoned, and his goods seized in satisfaction of the debt, but also his lands may be delivered to the creditor, till out of the rents and profits of them the debt may be satisfied...
Pagina 6 - ... the Spaniards comforted themselves with the belief, that they were devils and not men who had destroyed them in such a manner.
Pagina 48 - ... any body to go round the channel, in one direction only. In these steam vessels are placed weights so fitted to them as entirely to fill up a part or portion of their channels...
Pagina 3 - THERE are three points to be considered in the construction of all remedial statutes ; the old law, the mischief, and the remedy : that is, how the common law stood at the making of the act ; what the mischief was, for which the common law did not provide ; and what remedy the parliament hath provided to cure this mischief. And it is the business of the judges so to construe the act, as to suppress the mischief and advance the remedy e.
Pagina 48 - ... are placed weights, so fitted to them as entirely to fill up a part or portion of their channels, yet rendered capable of moving freely in them by the means hereinafter mentioned or specified.
Pagina 13 - An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosopher calleth it, infra spheeram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder, if the vessels be strong enough...
Pagina 13 - ... a way to make my vessels, so that they are strengthened by the force within them, and the one to fill after the other, I have seen the water run like a constant fountain-stream, forty feet high : one vessel of water, rarefied by fire, driveth up forty of cold water, and a man...
Pagina 16 - Take two ounces of sal ammoniac, one ounce of flowers of sulphur, and sixteen ounces of cast iron filings or borings. Mix all well together by rubbing them in a mortar, and keep the powder dry. When the cement is wanted for use, take one part of the above powder and twenty parts of clean iron borings or filings, and blend them intimately by grinding them in a mortar. Wet the compound with water, and when brought to a convenient consistence, apply it to the joints with a wooden or blunt iron spatula.
Pagina 21 - Stradella and his miftrefs had quitted Rome the night before their arrival in that city. After this wonderful efcape, the lovers did not wait for new counfel to quit Rome, but fet out that very night for Turin, as a place moft remote from their implacable enemy and his emifiaries.
