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Pagina 66 - Herschel says, it is very probable, that the great stratum, called the Milky Way, is that in which the sun is placed*, though perhaps not in the centre of its thickness, but not far from the place where some smaller stratum branches from it. Such a supposition will satisfactorily, and with great simplicity, account for all the phenomena of the Milky Way, which, according to this hypothesis, is no other than the appearance of the projection of the stars contained in this stratum and its secondary...
Pagina 231 - The games were commenced by aprcelusio, in which they fought with weapons of wood, till, upon a signal, they assumed their arms, and began in earnest to fight in pairs. In case the vanquished was not killed in the combat, his fate was decided by the people. If they decreed his death, the thumb was held up in the air ; the opposite motion was a signal to save him.
Pagina 52 - In 1811 and 1812, two steamboats were built under Mr. Fulton's directions, as ferry-boats for crossing the Hudson river, and, soon after, one of the same description for the East river. Of the former Mr. Fulton wrote and published a description, in the American Medical and Philosophical Register, for October, 1812.
Pagina 175 - ... apartment, he expired. An attempt was made to bleed him, but without effect ; and afterwards the surgeons, upon opening him, discovered that the right ventricle of the heart was ruptured, and that a great quantity of blood was discharged through the aperture. 5.
Pagina 41 - A slight giddiness succeeds, accompanied by a feeling of a. flush or glow in the face and neck. Soon after the person becomes drowsy, would sit down, but commonly falls on the floor, insensible of all about him, and breathes strong, snoring as in an apoplexy. If the person is alarmed in time, and escapes into the open air, he is commonly seized with a violent headache, which gradually abates.
Pagina 132 - In a narrower sense a gentleman is generally defined to be ' one who, without any title, bears a coat of arms, or whose ancestors have been freemen ; and by the coat that a gentleman giveth, he is known to be, or not, descended from those of his name that lived many hundred years since.
Pagina 298 - The people for whom the form of government is intended must be willing to accept it ; or at least not so unwilling as to oppose an insurmountable obstacle to its establishment. They must be willing and able to do what is necessary to keep it standing. And they must be willing and able to do what it requires of them to enable it to fulfil its purposes. The word " do " is to be understood as including forbearances as well as acts.
Pagina 249 - Lines of Longitude, are semicircles, extending from the north to the south pole, and cutting the equator at right angles. Every place upon the globe is supposed to have a meridian passing through it, though there be only 24 drawn upon the terrestrial globe ; the deficiency is supplied by the brass meridian. When the sun comes to the meridian of any place (not within the polar circles), it is noon or mid-day at that place.
Pagina 29 - Prospectus and Specimen of an intended National Work, by William and Robert Whistlecraft, of Stowmarket, in Suffolk, Harness and Collar Makers, intended to comprise the most interesting Particulars relating to King Arthur and his Round Table...
Pagina 107 - Gauls extended, in the times of the Romans, from the Pyrenees to the Rhine, and on the side of Italy, beyond the Alps to the Adriatic. It was divided into Gaul on this side (the Italian side) of the Alps (Gallia Cisalpina), and Gallia beyond the Alps (Gallia Transalpina).