Walker’s Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Languge : Abridged for the Use of Schools : Containing a Compendium of the Principles of English Pronunciation with Proper Names that Occur in the Sacred Scriptures : to which is Likewise Added, a Selection of Geographical Proper Names and Derivatives
Стр. 131 – It, s. three fourths of an inch ; the twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon ; any number expressed by a single figure. Di gi ta ted, dlj’ è Ча-tèd, a. branched out into divisions like fingers. Dig ni fy, dig” né ‘fi, va to advance, prefer, exalt ; to honour.
Стр. 300 – Physiognomy, flzh-c-6g’-no-me. s. the art of discovering the temper and foreknowing the fortune by the features of the face : the cast of the look.
Стр. 40 – Those people who, living on the other side of the globe, have their feet directly opposite to ours. US.
Стр. 190 – Gantlet, gant’lct. s. a military punishment in which the criminal running between the ranks receives a lash from each man Gaol, jile.
Стр. 72 – Buckle, buk’-kl . s. a link of metal, with a tongue or catch, made to fasten one thing to another ; the state of the hair crisped and curled.
Стр. 369 – The part of any solid body remaining after the rest is taken away,” is a flattering description of one of our stumps of the thigh. It is in reality with us barely more than a peg whereon to hang an artificial limb. In youth, in middle age, in advanced years, it never improves. It never can be more than a shortened bone, with shortened and shrivelled materials around.
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The Scientific and Literary Treasury
Стр. 398 – Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely. A government can interfere in discussion only by making it less free than it would otherwise be. Men are most likely to form just opinions when they have no other wish than to know the truth, and are exempt from all influence, either of hope or fear. Government, as government, can bring nothing but the influence of hopes and fears to support its doctrines.
Стр. 192 – . next after any relation in the same degree of the whole blood, and his issue, where the common ancestor shall be a male, and next after the common ancestor where such common ancestor shall be a female.
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Стр. 96 – Board should consist of: The Lord President of the Council. The Lord Privy Seal. The Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Secretary of State for the Home Department, and The Master of the Mint.
Стр. 170 – The court-leet, or view of frankpledge,(x) which is a court of record, held once in the year, and not oftener,(^) within a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet: being the king’s court, granted by charter to the lords of those hundreds or manors.
Стр. 286 – FRETS ; certain short pieces of wire fixed on the finger-board of guitars, &.C., at right angles to the strings, and which, as the strings are brought into contact with them by the pressure of the fingers, serve to vary and determine the pitch of the tones.
Стр. 300 – One and four make five. Things equal to the same thing are equal to one another. The whole is greater than a part ; ‘ and, in brief, all axioms in arithmetic and geometry. These are, in effect, but so many expositions of our own general notions, taken in different views. Some of them are no more than definitions, or equivalent to definitions. To say,
Стр. 17 – Musteum, where they were transcribed by persons employed for that purpose. The copies were then delivered to the proprietors, and the originals were deposited in the library. Ptolemy Euergetes, for.
Стр. 17 – If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.
Стр. 291 – When the battery is a very powerful one, and the charcoal points are brought within the 30th or 40th of an inch of each other, a bright spark is produced. By withdrawing the points from each other, a constant discharge takes place through the heated air, in a space of from one to four or more inches, according to the energy of the apparatus, producing a most brilliant arch of light, of considerable breadth, and in the form of a double cone.
Стр. 260 – On this relation of the jaw to the forehead is founded the facial line, discovered by Peter Camper. Suppose a straight line drawn at the base of the skull, from the great occipital cavity across the external orifice of the ear to the bottom of the nose. If we draw another straight line from the bottom of the nose, or from the roots of the upper incisors, to the forehead, then both lines will form an angle which will be more acute the less the shape of the face, in brutes, resembles that of men. In.
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