Systematic Education: Or Elementary Instruction in the Various Departments of Literature and Science; with Practical Rules for Studying Each Branch of Useful Knowledge, Volumen2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815 |
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... greater space in coming to D , than B has in coming to C ; but the velocities are as the spaces passed over in the same time , therefore the velocity of A must be greater than that of B : of course as much greater as the velocity of A ...
... greater space in coming to D , than B has in coming to C ; but the velocities are as the spaces passed over in the same time , therefore the velocity of A must be greater than that of B : of course as much greater as the velocity of A ...
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... greater than the interval or distance between the spirals , so much is the force of the screw . If the spirals be only at the distance of a quarter of an inch from one another , and the length of the winch be twelve inches , the circle ...
... greater than the interval or distance between the spirals , so much is the force of the screw . If the spirals be only at the distance of a quarter of an inch from one another , and the length of the winch be twelve inches , the circle ...
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... greater is the force of the screw . After the simple mechanical powers have been described , and their several properties investigated and understood , the pupil will advance to the consideration of compound machines , bearing in his ...
... greater is the force of the screw . After the simple mechanical powers have been described , and their several properties investigated and understood , the pupil will advance to the consideration of compound machines , bearing in his ...
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... greater than those of the latter . The cause of fluidity is not perfectly known : some persons say that the particles of fluids are spherical , and accordingly touching only in points , have very little cohesion , and easily slide over ...
... greater than those of the latter . The cause of fluidity is not perfectly known : some persons say that the particles of fluids are spherical , and accordingly touching only in points , have very little cohesion , and easily slide over ...
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... greater density of the one will precisely compensate for its deficiency in height . Thus a column of mercury standing at the height of thirty inches in a tube , will support the pressure of a column of water , in another branch of the ...
... greater density of the one will precisely compensate for its deficiency in height . Thus a column of mercury standing at the height of thirty inches in a tube , will support the pressure of a column of water , in another branch of the ...
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Página 441 - THE annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.
Página 354 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Página 478 - It is in this manner that money has become in all civilized nations the universal instrument of commerce, by the intervention of which goods of all kinds are bought and sold, or exchanged for one another.
Página 97 - When any substance was introduced into this arch, it instantly became ignited ; platina melted as readily in it as wax in the flame of a common candle ; quartz, the sapphire, magnesia, lime, all entered into fusion...
Página 492 - Taking the whole earth, instead of this island, emigration would, of course, be excluded; and, supposing the present population equal to a thousand millions, the human species would increase as the numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, and subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable.
Página 321 - MORAL Philosophy, Morality, Ethics, Casuistry, Natural Law, mean all the same thing ; namely, that science which teaches men their duty and the reasons of it.
Página 113 - Aries the Ram, Taurus the Bull, Gemini the Twins, Cancer the Crab, Leo the Lion, Virgo the Virgin, Libra the Balance, Scorpio the Scorpion, Sagittarius the Archer, Capricornus the Goat, Aquarius the Waterbearer, and Pisces the Fishes...
Página 495 - I should propose a regulation to be made, declaring that no child born from any marriage taking place after the expiration of a year from the date of the law, and no illegitimate child born two years from the same date, should ever be entitled to parish assistance.
Página 489 - It is in this manner that the demand for men, like that for any other commodity, necessarily regulates the production of men, quickens it when it goes on too slowly, and stops it when it advances too fast.
Página 475 - Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased ; and its value, to those who possess it, and who want to exchange it for some new productions, is precisely equal to the quantity of labour which it can enable them to purchase or command.