A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for Raising Water, Ancient and Modern: With Observations on Various Subjects Connected with the Mechanic Arts: Including the Progressive Development of the Steam Engine ... In Five Books. Illustrated by Nearly Three Hundred EngravingsGreeley & McElrath, 1842 - 582 oldal |
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iv. oldal
... kind little that is new can be expected ; I have not , however , servilely copied any author , but have written the whole as if little had been written before . I have sought for information wherever I could find it ; and with this view ...
... kind little that is new can be expected ; I have not , however , servilely copied any author , but have written the whole as if little had been written before . I have sought for information wherever I could find it ; and with this view ...
26. oldal
... kind as to put him on his way , to let him light a can- dle at mine , or draw water at my well . " Seneca on Benefits ; L'Estrange's Trans . The story of Apono , an Italian philosopher , and reputed magi- cian , of the 13th century ...
... kind as to put him on his way , to let him light a can- dle at mine , or draw water at my well . " Seneca on Benefits ; L'Estrange's Trans . The story of Apono , an Italian philosopher , and reputed magi- cian , of the 13th century ...
41. oldal
... kind of strife , says Dr. Richardson , between the different villagers , still exists , as it did in the days of Abra- ham and Lot . It was customary for shepherds to seize on the wells be- fore others came , lest there should not be ...
... kind of strife , says Dr. Richardson , between the different villagers , still exists , as it did in the days of Abra- ham and Lot . It was customary for shepherds to seize on the wells be- fore others came , lest there should not be ...
51. oldal
... kind to be convenient or practicable , the wells themselves were enlarged , and stairs or steps for descending to the water , constructed within them . The circumstances recorded in Genesis , xxiv , induce us to believe that the well at ...
... kind to be convenient or practicable , the wells themselves were enlarged , and stairs or steps for descending to the water , constructed within them . The circumstances recorded in Genesis , xxiv , induce us to believe that the well at ...
64. oldal
... kind which was self - acting ; and in that respect , was the forerunner of the motive Fire Engine ' itself . It appears to have been first described by Schottus in his Technia Curiosa . According to Moxon , his description was taken ...
... kind which was self - acting ; and in that respect , was the forerunner of the motive Fire Engine ' itself . It appears to have been first described by Schottus in his Technia Curiosa . According to Moxon , his description was taken ...
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571. oldal - For Tophet is ordained of old ; Yea, for the king it is prepared ; He hath made it deep and large: The pile thereof is fire and much wood ; The breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
44. oldal - ... and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar ? fear not ; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand ; for I will make him a great nation.
400. oldal - For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
40. oldal - And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?
95. oldal - Behold, God is my salvation ; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
44. oldal - Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his sons, and his cattle?
67. oldal - The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket. The moss-covered bucket which hung in the well. That moss-covered vessel I hail as a treasure; For often, at noon, when returned from the field, I found it the source of an exquisite pleasure, The purest and sweetest that nature can yield.
518. oldal - When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was-, (but the servants which drew the water knew) the governor of the feast...
428. oldal - A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions, as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected which (my former notes being lost) I have, at the instance of a powerful Friend, endeavoured now in the year 1655 to set these down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to put any of them in practice.
85. oldal - They also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned with the heavenly bodies, and their order. And that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the...