The British Palladium: Or, Annual Miscellany of Literature and Science for the Year ..., Volume 5D. Steel., 1755 - Almanacs, English |
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Page 20 - And what avails it that indulgent Heaven From mortal eyes has wrapt the woes to come, If we, ingenious to torment ourselves, Grow pale at hideous fictions of our own? Enjoy the present; nor, with needless cares Of what may spring from blind misfortune's womb, Appal the surest hour that life bestows: Serene, and master of yourself, prepare For what may come; and leave the rest to Heaven.
Page 10 - Produit by the Rate per Cent. Then cut off the two laft Figures to the Right Hand and the reft you maß -find in the Table.
Page 51 - ... things equal to one and the fame thing are equal to one another...
Page 43 - Dinance from one another, it mult neceffarily have nearly the fame Degree of Curvature, and therefore likewife coincide with it in the intermediate Spaces, very near. To derive the Numerical Solution from this Conftruftion, let the Chord D K.
Page 10 - Money, from a Million to a Pound ; for any Number of Days, at any Rate (of Intereft.
Page 21 - I would not doubt My combat with that loud vain-glorious boaster. Were you, ye fair, but cautious whom ye trust, Did you but think how seldom fools are just, So many of your sex would not in vain Of broken vows, and faithless men, complain...
Page 2 - Every quantity so generated is called a variable, or flowing quantity : and ike magnitude by which any flowing quantity WOULD BE uniformly increased in a given portion of time, with the generating celerity at any proposed position, or instant (was it from thence to continue invariable) is the fluxion of the said quantity ai that position, or instant.
Page 20 - Fear. Some, for fear of want, Want all their lives; and others ev'ry day, For fear of dying, suffer worse than death. Ah! from your bosoms banish, if you can, That fatal guest, I mean the demon Fear, That trembles at impossible events, Lest aged Atlas should resign his load, And Heaven's eternal battlements rush down. Is there an evil worse than fear itself? And what avails it, that...
Page 43 - AS>_, it is beft determined from the common method of interpolating by differences: According to which, the two given intervals correfponding to...
Page 47 - ... to carry it to the height of 700 yards in a vertical direction ; I would know the elevation of the piece fo that the ball may fall at the greateft diltance poffible from the place of projection ? XIV.