 | 1794 - 442 pages
...of their coverts, and infeft the country. NEW (QUERIES. V. By ARIST JE. U S. IT is a common faying, "a pound of feathers is as heavy as a pound of lead ;" but it is poflible to weigh Fsathers, and immediately after, without adding to, or taking any thing... | |
 | Philip Skelton - 1824 - 582 pages
...sensible of, as I am ; but you will not own it, for reasons already intimated. Shep. I do confess, sir, a pound of feathers is as heavy as a pound of lead. But you must excuse me, if I tell you, that I dare not take your feathers off your hands, at the weight... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), Thomas P. Jones - Physics - 1826 - 286 pages
...compare the weight, of equal quantities of difl'erent bodies, they will all be alike. You know die old saying, that a pound of feathers, is as heavy as a pound •fclead? Mrs. B. When therefore we compare the weight of different kinds of bodies, it would be absurd... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1827 - 472 pages
...had afforded ; but the larger body having received more would loee more. It follows that the common saying that a pound of feathers is as heavy as a pound of lead, " is Ifss than ¿he truth, as they would really prove heavier were the air removed." ELECTRICITY AND... | |
 | Robert Hare - Chemistry - 1828 - 418 pages
...had afforded; but the larger body having received more, would lose more. It follows, that the common saying, that " a pound of feathers is as heavy as a pound of lead, is less than the truth, as they would really prove heavier were the air removed. MEANS OF ASCERTAINING... | |
 | Jane Marcet - 1839 - 544 pages
...is to say, that the first are heavy, and the latter light, in comparison with the generality of the substances in nature. Would you call wood and chalk...; pints or quarts, not ounces or pounds. CAROLINE. r Very true : I perplexed myself by thinking that quantity referred to weight, rather than to measure.... | |
 | Robert Hare - Americana - 1840 - 942 pages
...the air had bnl the larger body, having received more, would lose more. It follows. tii,:t • common saying, that "a pound of feathers is as heavy as a pound of lead," fi short of the truth ; as they would really prove heavier were the air removed Table of the Specific... | |
 | William Bridge - Theology - 1845 - 484 pages
...a bird or a fowl is clothed with, they have a weight in them, the wings and feathers haye a weight, a pound of feathers is as heavy as a pound of lead; there is a weight in those feathers, yet notwithstanding they bear up the burden of the body; there... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1853 - 332 pages
...Birch Rods '(" FRANK. Yes! Also a treatise on the political economy of the moon—an essay to prove that a pound of feathers is as heavy as a pound of lead— and a discussion whether that king is the happiest who dreams every night he is a beggar, or the beggar... | |
 | James Hannay - 1854 - 176 pages
...the more lively and genial of the two men, but in heart, probably, they were on a par — •just as a pound of feathers is as heavy as a pound of lead. Mrs. Plimmer, who was presiding in the capacity of maternal guardian on this occasion, knew the truth likewise,... | |
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All the metals expand by heat, and condense by cold. A piece of lead, let us say a cubic inch, for instance, would have less specific gravity in summer than in winter; for it would be more dense in the latter season. CAROLINE. • But, Mrs. B., if you... 
