Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Volumen6Archibald Constable, 1823 |
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... ecliptic , produces an- other inequality in the length of the days : and hence the difference betwixt real and apparent time , so that the apparent motion of the sun cannot always be a true measure of duration . These inequalities ...
... ecliptic , produces an- other inequality in the length of the days : and hence the difference betwixt real and apparent time , so that the apparent motion of the sun cannot always be a true measure of duration . These inequalities ...
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... ecliptic , neither the number nor the quantity of months have been the same , and their situation has likewise been altered by the intercalations necessary to be made . These intercalations became necessary on account of the excess of ...
... ecliptic , neither the number nor the quantity of months have been the same , and their situation has likewise been altered by the intercalations necessary to be made . These intercalations became necessary on account of the excess of ...
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... ecliptic . The lunar month is periodical , syno- dical , sidereal , and civil . The synodical lunar month is the time that passes between any conjunction of the moon with the sun and the conjunction following . It includes the motion of ...
... ecliptic . The lunar month is periodical , syno- dical , sidereal , and civil . The synodical lunar month is the time that passes between any conjunction of the moon with the sun and the conjunction following . It includes the motion of ...
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... the throne , different points in the ecliptic . The Chaldean and & e . a 26 33 Dionysian cycle of Easter . this table will sometimes. gory . In the first of the following tables , the golden 3 the 104 CHRONOLOGY . over. ...
... the throne , different points in the ecliptic . The Chaldean and & e . a 26 33 Dionysian cycle of Easter . this table will sometimes. gory . In the first of the following tables , the golden 3 the 104 CHRONOLOGY . over. ...
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... ecliptic on the same months and days , so as not to differ one degree in 100 years ; and the leap years begin the same course over again with respect to the days of the week on which the days of the month fell . The cycle of the moon ...
... ecliptic on the same months and days , so as not to differ one degree in 100 years ; and the leap years begin the same course over again with respect to the days of the week on which the days of the month fell . The cycle of the moon ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 356 - Like night, and darken'd all the land of Nile: So numberless were those bad Angels seen Hovering on wing under the cope of Hell, Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires...
Página 334 - ... being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected, that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own.
Página 356 - As when a vulture on Imaus bred, Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds, Dislodging from a region scarce of prey, To gorge the flesh of lambs or yeanling kids, On hills where flocks are fed, flies towards the springs Of Ganges or Hydaspes, Indian streams; But in his way lights on the barren plains Of Sericana, where Chineses drive With sails and wind their cany waggons light...
Página 355 - Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
Página 16 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Página 356 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i...
Página 357 - Romeo; and, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Página 246 - ... these primitive particles, being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces : no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.
Página 246 - These principles I consider not as occult qualities, supposed to result from the specific forms of things, but as general laws of nature by which the things themselves are formed : their truth appearing to us by phenomena, though their causes be not yet discovered. For these are manifest qualities, and their causes only are occult.
Página 354 - Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.