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Page 49 - These are usually accounted six in number, viz. the Lever, the Wheel and Axle, the Pulley, the Inclined Plane, the Wedge, and the Screw.
Page 635 - That man is a compound being, whose character is formed of his constitution or organization at birth, and of the effects of external circumstances upon it, from birth to death ; such original organization and external influences continually acting and re-acting each upon the other.
Page 547 - Dutch and Spanish armies. Bomb-vessels were invented in France, in 1681. — Voltaire. The Shrapnel shell is a bomb filled with balls, and a lighted fuse to make it explode before it reaches the enemy ¡ a thirteen-inch bomb-shell weighs 198 Ibs.
Page 635 - That all facts yet known to man indicate, that there is an external or internal cause of all existences by the fact of their existence...
Page 131 - A philosopher deduces inferences, and his inferences shall be right ; but he gets to the head of the staircase, if I may so say, by slow degrees, mounting step by step. She arrives at the top of the staircase as well as he ; but whether she flew there is more than she knows herself.
Page 635 - That man is compelled by his original constitution to receive his feelings and his convictions independently of his will. " 3d. That his feelings or his convictions, or both of them united, create the motive to action called the will, which stimulates him to act, and decides his actions.
Page 49 - There are 36 chances upon two dice. It is an even chance that you throw 8. It is 35 to 1 against throwing any particular doublets, and 6 to 1 against throwing any doublets. It te 17 to 1 against throwing any 2 deeircd numbers.