The Pleasing Preceptor; Or Familiar Instructions in Natural History and Physics,: Adapted to the Capacities of Youth, and Calculated Equally to Inform and Amuse Their Minds During the Intervals of More Dry and Severe Study:G.G. and J. Robinson, 1801 - 256 Seiten |
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Seite 186 - I fixed a leathern trunk or hose well liquored with bees wax and oil, and long enough to fall below the bung-hole, being kept down by a weight appended : so that the air in the upper part of the barrels could not escape, unless the lower ends of these hose were first lifted up.
Seite 162 - ... fell on the floor, and her extreme weakness having prevented her from getting up, she remained in that state till some one entered and put her to bed. The following night she wished to be left alone; a woman quitted her at half-past eleven, and according to custom shut the door and locked it.
Seite 160 - The trunk was in some measure incinerated, and resembled a heap of coals, covered with white ashes. The head, the arms, the legs, and the thighs, had also participated in the burning. This woman, it is said, had...
Seite 188 - Read, much more to fasten or lay hold on any thing under us, that was to be taken up. And by the return of the Air-Barrels, I often sent up Orders, written with an Iron Pen on small Plates of Lead, directing how to move us from Place to Place as occasion required. At other times, when the Water was troubled and thick, it would be...
Seite 185 - Glass, as a Window to let in the Light from above, and likewise a Cock to let out the hot Air that had been Breathed; and below, about a Yard under the Bell, I placed a...
Seite 187 - I myself have been one of five who have been together at the bottom in nine or ten fathoms water, for above an hour and a half at a time, without any sort of ill consequence ; and I might have continued there as long as I pleased, for any thing that appeared to the contrary.
Seite 204 - ... into it. Nicholas was not insensible of the danger to which he was exposed ; dangers best known only to himself, and therefore he presumed to remonstrate ; but the hopes of the reward, the desire of pleasing the king, and the pleasure...
Seite 185 - I made use of was of wood, containing about 60 cubic feet in its concavity ; and was of the form of a truncated cone, whose diameter at the top was three feet, and at the bottom five.
Seite 188 - I could do any thing that was required to be done just under us ; and that, by taking off the stage, I could, for a space as wide as the circuit of the bell, lay the bottom of the sea so far dry, as not to be over-shoes on it.
Seite 214 - M. St. Gill, the ventriloquist, and his intimate friend, returning home from a place whither his business had carried him, sought for shelter from an approaching thunder-storm in a neighbouring convent. Finding the whole community in mourning, he inquired the cause, and was told that one of the body had died lately, who was the ornament and delight of the whole society.