The Student: No. 1-4 (to be Continued Annually Containing Many Curious Essays ... Experiments ... Queries ... and New Improvements in the Arts and Sciences ...: The Whole Selected from the Valuable Contributions of Many Ingenious Artists, Mathematicians, and PhilosophersW. Hilton |
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Page 7 - A murderer and a villain ; A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe Of your precedent lord ; a vice of kings ; A cutpurse of the empire and the rule, That from a shelf the precious diadem stole, And put it in his pocket ! Queen.
Page 72 - Montrez-nous, guerriers magnanimes, Votre vertu dans tout son jour : Voyons comment vos cœurs sublimes Du sort soutiendront le retour. Tant que sa faveur vous seconde , Vous êtes les maîtres du monde . Votre gloire nous éblouit: Mais, au moindre revers funeste, Le masque tombe, l'homme reste, Et le héros s'évanouit.* L'effort d'une vertu commune Suffit pour faire un conquérant : Celui qui dompte la fortune Mérite seul le nom de grand.
Page 9 - ... to a proper consistence ; take then a piece, of a fit size for the cake you intend to make, roll it into a ball, put it into a mould, press it, and it will be complete. When these cakes are to be used, they must be rubbed down in poppy or other oil, or in a mixture of spirits of turpentine and oil, as may best suit the convenience or intention of the artist.
Page 55 - In a triangle, having given the ratio of the two sides, together with both the segments of the base, made by a perpendicular from the vertical angle, to determine the sides of the triangle.
Page 69 - Que l'homme est bien, durant sa vie. Un parfait miroir de douleurs, Dès qu'il respire, il pleure, il crie Et semble prévoir ses malheurs. Dans l'enfance toujours des pleurs, Un pédant porteur de tristesse, Des livres de toutes couleurs, Des châtiments de toute espèce.
Page 9 - ... varnish. Let the colours so ground become again dry, then prepare the composition for forming them into cakes in the following manner : — Procure some of the purest and whitest spermaceti you can obtain ; melt it over a gentle fire in a clean earthen vessel ; when fluid, add to it onethird of its weight of pure poppy...
Page 69 - Amour trouva celle qui m'est amère , (Et j'y étais , j'en sais bien mieux le conte) : Bonjour , dit-il , bonjour , Vénus ma mère. Puis tout à coup il voit qu'il se mécompte , Dont la couleur au visage lui monte , D'avoir failli honteux , dieu sait combien. Non, non, Amour, ce dis-je, n'ayez honte : Plus clairvoyant que vous s'y trompe bien.
Page 11 - All these must be ground together dry, upon a levigating stone ; they must then be put into an open crucible, and exposed to a gentle fire for some hours ; the fire is afterwards to be increased during a certain time ; and finally, the mixture is to continue three hours in a degree of heat sufficient to keep the crucible red hot. The mass will then be found to have acquired a beautiful yellow colour. If it is wished to be more of the colour of gold, a greater quantity of diaphoretic antimony and...
Page 19 - If a portion of the nerve which has been laid bare be armed as above, contractions will be produced as powerfully, by forming the communication between the armed and hire part of the nerve, as between the armed part and muscle.
Page 16 - ... of an inch in diameter. A part of this thread was applied endways to the lower blue flame of the candle, without the use of the blow-pipe. The extremity immediately became white, and formed a globule. The glass was then gradually and 'regularly thrust towards the flame, but never into it, until the globule was sufficiently large. A number of these were made, and being afterwards examined by viewing their focal images with a deep magnifier, proved very bright, round, and perfect. Spherules are...