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" I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream forty feet high ; one vessel of water rarefied by fire driveth up forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work is but to turn two cocks, that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins... "
Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics ... - Page 90
by James Ferguson - 1823 - 400 pages
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The Repertory of arts and manufactures [afterw.] arts, manufactures and ...

Repertory of arts, manufactures and agriculture - 1802 - 556 pages
...rarefied by fire drivcth up forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work is but to turn two cocks, that, one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and re-fill wjth cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant, which the selfsame...
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Public Characters, Volume 5

Biography - 1803 - 598 pages
...in an uninterrupted stream forty feet high, and one vessel of rarefied water raised forty of cold. The person who conducted the operation had nothing...itself with cold water, and so on in succession." Such are the Marquis's own words, but it does not appear whether he ever attempted to carry his scheme...
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Public characters [Formerly British public characters] of 1798-9 ..., Volume 5

1803 - 614 pages
...raised forty qf cold. The person who conducted the operation had nothing to do but turn two cocks, &o that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins...itself with cold water, and so on in succession." Such are the Marquis's own words, but it does not appear whether he ever attempted to carry his scheme...
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Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy ...

Jacques Ozanam - Scientific recreations - 1803 - 596 pages
..." fire driveth up forty of cold water. And a man " that tends the work is but to turn two cocks,. " that one vessel of water being consumed, another " begins to force and refill with cold water, and " so successively, the fire being tended and kept *' constant, which the...
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The Harleian miscellany; or, A collection of ... pamphlets and ..., Volume 6

Harleian miscellany - 1808 - 588 pages
...rarified by fire, driveth up forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work is but to turn two cocks; that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and re-fill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self-same...
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The Harleian Miscellany, Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and ..., Volume 6

William Oldys, John Malham - Great Britain - 1810 - 574 pages
...rarified by fire, diiveth up forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work is but to turn two cocks; that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and re-fill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self-same...
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Wither's Motto

George Wither - 1814 - 348 pages
...by (ire, driveth up forty of cold water. And a man' that tends the work, is but to turn two cocks, that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and refill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self-same...
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A Treatise of Mechanics, Theoretical, Practical, and Descriptive, Volume 2

Olinthus Gregory - Mechanical engineering - 1815 - 632 pages
...rarefied by fire driveth up forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work is but to turn two cocks, that, one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and re-fill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self-same...
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A Thousand Notable Things on Various Subjects: Disclosed from the Secrets of ...

Thomas Lupton - Birds - 1815 - 262 pages
...rarified by fire, driveth up forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work, is but to turn two cocks, that one vessel of -water being consumed, another begins to force and re-, fill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant, which the...
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The Kaleidoscope: or, Literary and scientific mirror, Volume 5

1825 - 458 pages
...rarified by fire driveth up forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work is but to turn two cocks, that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and re-fill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self-same...
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