Chemical Essays: Principally Relating to the Arts and Manufactures of the British Dominions, Volume 2

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tha author, and published, 1823
 

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Page 98 - And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour. And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
Page 288 - Trojan dames (ere yet alarm'd by Greece) Wash'd their fair garments in the days of peace.
Page 696 - Observations on the geology of the United States of America; with some remarks on the effect produced on the nature and fertility of soils, by the decomposition of the different classes of rocks; and an application to the fertility of every state in the union, in reference to the accompanying geological map.
Page 532 - Then hurl'd the hero, thundering on the ground, A mass of iron (an enormous round), Whose weight and size the circling Greeks admire, Rude from the furnace, and but shaped by fire.
Page 124 - Gnomes, as you now dissect, with hammers fine, The granite rock, the noduled flint calcine ; Grind with strong arm the circling Chertz betwixt, Your pure ka—o—lins and Pe—tunt—ses mixt.
Page 68 - The potash began to fuse at both its points of electrization. There was a violent effervescence at the upper surface ; at the lower, or negative surface, there was no liberation...
Page 650 - And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps. There was not the like made in any kingdom. 20 And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: none were of silver; it was not any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
Page 621 - As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre: so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.
Page 577 - By this process the steel becomes more highly carbonized in proportion to the quantity of flux, and in consequence is more brittle and fusible than before. Hence it surpasses all other steel in uniformity of texture, hardness, and closeness of grain, and is the material employed in all the finest articles of English cutlery.
Page 412 - Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds, This be thy just circumference, O World! Thus God the Heaven created, thus the Earth, Matter unform'd and void : Darkness profound Cover'd the abyss: but on the watery calm His brooding wings the Spirit of God outspread...

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