Collection of English Almanacs for the Years 1702-1835

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Page 41 - Of crowds, or issuing forth, or ent'ring in: A thoroughfare of news : where some devise Things never heard; some mingle truth with lies: The troubled air with empty sounds they beat; Intent to hear, and eager to repeat. Error sits brooding there; with added train Of vain credulity, and joys as vain : Suspicion, with sedition join'd, are near; And rumours rais'd, and murmurs mix'd, and panic fear.
Page 39 - A thousand winding entries, long and wide, Receive of fresh reports a flowing tide; A thousand crannies in the walls are made ; Nor gate nor bars exclude the busy trade.
Page 9 - But that which most doth take my Muse and me Is a pure cup of rich canary wine, Which is the Mermaid's now, but shall be mine; Of which had Horace or Anacreon tasted, Their lives, as do their lines, till now had lasted.
Page 4 - PrefTure is communicated every way in a Sphere to any given Part thereof. From hence it follows, That if by any external Caufe the Gravity of any one part...
Page 4 - ... be preferved in all fluids. Now this violent running in of the heavier air would certainly produce a wind, which is no more than a ftrong motion of the air in fome determined direction.
Page 23 - Table of íbme principal fixed Stars, with the time they Rife, South and Set, either before or after the Seven Stars ; as alfo their Colour, Magnitude and Mendian Altitude, by which they may be readily difcoveret Colour.
Page 6 - It will be of more life to confider the proportion of the forces of the two luminaries upon the air, to that which they have upon the waters of our globe ; that it may the more plainly appear, what influence the alterations hereby made muft
Page 5 - ... will be of a middle degree, at the time between the quarters, and new and full moon. The different diftances of the moon- in her perig&um and apog&um, likewife increafe or diminifh this power.
Page 5 - The different distances of the moon in her perigieum and apogseum likewise increase or diminish this power. Besides, the sun's lesser distance from the earth in winter is the reason that the greatest and least attraction of the air upwards more frequently happens a little before the vernal and the autumnal equinox. And in places where the moon declines from the equator, the attraction is greater and lesser alternately, on account of the diurnal rotation of the earth on its axis. '• Whatever has...

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