Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, Volume 5Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Henry Vethake B.B. Mussey & Company, 1851 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Page 127 - ... minutes, an incessant random cannonade ; but, at length, long before she comes in contact, precipitate themselves into the sea, and attempt to reach the other vessels, scarcely one remaining to the last moment to attempt to save the devoted ship. Sometimes, however, armed boats are sent off from the other vessels of the fleet ; but they have never yet been able, either to prevent the approach of the fire-ship, or seize on the crew whilst making their escape ; and, though fire-ships are, in other...
Page 405 - Thus a line is said to be generated by the motion of a point ; a surface, by the motion of a line, and a solid, by the motion of a surface.
Page 56 - ... palms, and nearly down to the sea, the observer will behold the scene of the same objects not only reflected from the surface of the sea, but likewise in the air, though not so distinctly or well defined as the former objects of the sea.
Page 291 - American affairs as the gentleman alluded to, and so injuriously reflected on; one, he was pleased to say, whom all Europe held in high estimation for his knowledge and wisdom, and ranked with our Boyles and Newtons; who was an honor, not to the English nation only, but to human nature...
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Page 353 - Tolemaico et Copernicano. Scarcely had it appeared, when it was attacked by the disciples of Aristotle, and most violently of all by Scipione Chiaramonti. teacher of philosophy at Pisa.
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