A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, 2. kötetH.G. Bohn, 1846 |
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ix. oldal
... proved to be several times the content of the cylinder . He soon discovered that , whatever the size and construction of the cylinder , an admission of hot steam into it must necessarily be attended with very great waste , if in ...
... proved to be several times the content of the cylinder . He soon discovered that , whatever the size and construction of the cylinder , an admission of hot steam into it must necessarily be attended with very great waste , if in ...
10. oldal
... proved by its founder in 14872 . In the year 1486 , after much opposition , he established a lending - house at Mantua , and procured for it also the pope's sanction . Four years after , however , it had declined so much , that he was ...
... proved by its founder in 14872 . In the year 1486 , after much opposition , he established a lending - house at Mantua , and procured for it also the pope's sanction . Four years after , however , it had declined so much , that he was ...
23. oldal
... proved also that older nations gave other names to these heavenly bodies at much earlier periods . The oldest appel- lations , if we may judge from some examples still preserved , seem to have originated from certain emotions which ...
... proved also that older nations gave other names to these heavenly bodies at much earlier periods . The oldest appel- lations , if we may judge from some examples still preserved , seem to have originated from certain emotions which ...
32. oldal
... proved , by our not finding in the works of the ancients any information that appears even to allude to it . I know but of one instance where it is supposed to have been found among remains of antiquity . Grignon pretends that something ...
... proved , by our not finding in the works of the ancients any information that appears even to allude to it . I know but of one instance where it is supposed to have been found among remains of antiquity . Grignon pretends that something ...
37. oldal
... proved that the tutia of the Arabs and later Greeks was furnace - calamine , or the tutia of our drug- gists , the oldest account with which I am acquainted of fur- nace - calamine , employed in making brass , would occur in Zosimus ...
... proved that the tutia of the Arabs and later Greeks was furnace - calamine , or the tutia of our drug- gists , the oldest account with which I am acquainted of fur- nace - calamine , employed in making brass , would occur in Zosimus ...
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335. oldal - Italian fashion by this forked cutting of meate, not only while I was in Italy, but also in Germany, and oftentimes in England since I came home. Being once quipped for that frequent using of my forke by a certain learned Gentleman, a familiar friend of mine, one Mr.
175. oldal - French school of historical scholars, at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century...
334. oldal - I observed a custome in all those Italian cities and townes through the which I passed, that is not used in any other country that I saw in my travels ; neither do I think that any other nation of Christendome doth use it, but only Italy.
79. oldal - In the fourth century, when bishop Theophilus broke to pieces the statues at Alexandria, he found some which were hollow, and placed in such a manner against a wall that a priest could slip unperceived behind them, and speak to the ignorant populace through their mouths...
283. oldal - Henry VIII. wore ordinarily cloth hose, except there came from Spain, by great chance, a pair of silk stockings. King Edward, his son, was presented with a pair of long Spanish silk stockings by Sir Thomas Gresham, his merchant, and the present was taken much notice of.
334. oldal - For while with their knife, which they hold in one hand, they cut the meate out of the dish, they fasten their forke, which they hold in their other hand, upon the same dish, so that whatsoever he be that, sitting in the company of any others at...
283. oldal - Burdet, having accidentally seen in the shop of an Italian merchant a pair of knit worsted stockings, procured from Mantua, and having borrowed them, made a pair exactly like them, and these were the first stockings knit in England of woollen yarn. From this...
57. oldal - Tarn leve nee bombyx pendulus urget opus. Crassior in facie vetulae stat creta Fabullae: Crassior offensae bulla tumescit aquae. Fortior et tortos servat vesica capillos, Et mutat Latias spuma Batava comas.