The parent's guide to a liberal ... education; containing a selection of questions. [With] Prospectus of the course of education pursued by ... Robert Simson ... at Colebrooke house academy |
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... axis . What does axis signify ? The line , real or imaginary , that passes through any thing on which it may revolve . Is the axis of the world real or supposed ? Supposed . In what manner does the earth move in her annual or yearly ...
... axis . What does axis signify ? The line , real or imaginary , that passes through any thing on which it may revolve . Is the axis of the world real or supposed ? Supposed . In what manner does the earth move in her annual or yearly ...
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... axis . Ex- plain to me the uniform cause of day and night . That part of the earth is enlightened which is turned towards the sun , while that part of it is dark which is turned from him . Are there not two names by which the day is ...
... axis . Ex- plain to me the uniform cause of day and night . That part of the earth is enlightened which is turned towards the sun , while that part of it is dark which is turned from him . Are there not two names by which the day is ...
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... axis , and one round the sun with the earth . What are the supposed dimen- sions of the sun and moon ? The sun is more than a million times larger than the earth , and the moon fifty times less than the earth . What is the mean distance ...
... axis , and one round the sun with the earth . What are the supposed dimen- sions of the sun and moon ? The sun is more than a million times larger than the earth , and the moon fifty times less than the earth . What is the mean distance ...
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... axis . What are the poles ? They are the extremities of the axis upon which the earth performs its diurnal revolutions : that which is imme- diately opposite to the pole - star , is called the North or Arctic Pole , and the opposite is ...
... axis . What are the poles ? They are the extremities of the axis upon which the earth performs its diurnal revolutions : that which is imme- diately opposite to the pole - star , is called the North or Arctic Pole , and the opposite is ...
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... axis is called its diurnal motion . How does the diurnal motion produce the changes of day and night ? As the earth turns round its axis , all parts of its surface are exposed to the sun's rays in suc- cession ; and thus the earth's ...
... axis is called its diurnal motion . How does the diurnal motion produce the changes of day and night ? As the earth turns round its axis , all parts of its surface are exposed to the sun's rays in suc- cession ; and thus the earth's ...
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Page 12 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 15 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 17 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Page 7 - And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night: and the evening and the morning were the first day.
Page 9 - And GOD made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament, from the waters, which were above the firmament, and it was so. And GOD called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Page 13 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days,
Page 26 - Syllaba longa brevi subjecta vocatur Iambus ; Pes citus ; unde etiam trimetris accrescere jussit Nomen lambeis, quum senos redderet ictus, Primus ad extremum similis sibi : non ita pridem, Tardior ut paulo graviorque veniret ad aures, 255 Spondees stabiles in jura paterna recepit Commodus et patiens ; non ut de sede secunda Cederet aut quarta socialiter.
Page 7 - Let there be light : and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good : and God divided the light from the darkness.
Page 105 - To find the area of a trapezoid, multiply half the sum of the parallel sides by the perpendicular distance between them ; the product will be the area.
Page 110 - ... it is so pleasing, that you would give something out of your pocket to obtain it, and would forego some bodily enjoyment for its sake. The pleasure derived from Science is exactly of the like nature, or, rather, it is the very same. For what has just been spoken of is, in fact, Science, which in its most comprehensive sense only means Knowledge, and in its ordinary sense means Knowledge reduced to a System ; that is, arranged in a regular order, so as to be conveniently taught, easily remembered,...