Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, 15. kötetJohn Brown, 1816 |
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... copper , according to Mr Price , is from 40 to 80 fathoms deep : for tin , from 20 to 60 ; and though a great quantity of either may be raised at 80 or 100 fathoms , yet " the quality is often too much de- cayed and dry for metal . ' He ...
... copper , according to Mr Price , is from 40 to 80 fathoms deep : for tin , from 20 to 60 ; and though a great quantity of either may be raised at 80 or 100 fathoms , yet " the quality is often too much de- cayed and dry for metal . ' He ...
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... copper . Sometimes one of thefe unmetallic veins intersects the true ne at tight angles , fometimes obliquely ; and fometimes the mixture of both is fo intimate , that the moft expert miners are at a lofs to difcover the fepara- ted ...
... copper . Sometimes one of thefe unmetallic veins intersects the true ne at tight angles , fometimes obliquely ; and fometimes the mixture of both is fo intimate , that the moft expert miners are at a lofs to difcover the fepara- ted ...
4. oldal
... copper mines in Cyprus were firft difcovered by Cinyras , the fon of Agri- opas ; and Hefiod afcribes the discovery of the iron mines of Crete to the Cretan Dactyli Idæi . The extraction of lead or tin from its ore , in the inland of ...
... copper mines in Cyprus were firft difcovered by Cinyras , the fon of Agri- opas ; and Hefiod afcribes the discovery of the iron mines of Crete to the Cretan Dactyli Idæi . The extraction of lead or tin from its ore , in the inland of ...
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... copper ore , but the others were never wrought upon . This method of difcover ing lodes is equally cheap and certain ; for 100 fathoms in fhallow ground may be driven at 5os . expense . " In that kind of ground called by our author ...
... copper ore , but the others were never wrought upon . This method of difcover ing lodes is equally cheap and certain ; for 100 fathoms in fhallow ground may be driven at 5os . expense . " In that kind of ground called by our author ...
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... copper , and tin , are of great value . Bacon to Vill . Part hidden veins digg'd up , nor hath this earth Entrails unlike , of mineral and stone . Milton . -Minerals ; nitre with vitriol ; common falt with alum ; and fulphur with ...
... copper , and tin , are of great value . Bacon to Vill . Part hidden veins digg'd up , nor hath this earth Entrails unlike , of mineral and stone . Milton . -Minerals ; nitre with vitriol ; common falt with alum ; and fulphur with ...
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113. oldal - A crime, or misdemeanor, is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it.
355. oldal - You may as well go stand upon the beach, And bid the main flood bate his usual height ; You may as well use question with the wolf, Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb ; You may as well forbid the mountain pines To wag their high tops, and to make no noise, When they are fretted with the gusts of heaven...
302. oldal - OF Man's firft difobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whofe mortal tafte Brought death into the world, and all our woe.
133. oldal - We do it wrong, being so majestical, To offer it the show of violence ; For it is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery.
398. oldal - To make the killing either murder or manslaughter, it is requisite that the party die within a year and a day after the stroke received or the cause of death administered; in the computation of which the whole of the day on which the act was done shall be reckoned the first.
373. oldal - Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me And after bite me, then like hedgehogs which Lie tumbling in my barefoot way and mount Their pricks at my footfall. Sometime am I All wound with adders who with cloven tongues Do hiss me into madness.
313. oldal - But, besides this general licence from the king, as lord paramount of the kingdom, it was also requisite, whenever there was a mesne or intermediate lord between the king and the alienor, to obtain his licence also (upon the same feudal principles), for the alienation of the specific land.
311. oldal - But, so long as it continues conditional, that is, between the time of lending the money and the time allotted for payment, the mortgagee is called tenant in mortgage.
398. oldal - To kill a child in its mother's womb is now no murder, but a great misprision : but if the child be born alive and dieth by reason of the potion or bruises it received in the womb, it seems by the better opinion to be murder in such as administered or gave them.
315. oldal - ... within six months previous to the donor's death), and unless such gift be made to take effect immediately, and be without power of revocation: and that all other ¡gifts shall be void...