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" ... windmill) to all quarters at pleasure; capable of not much more than one man, as I conceive, and perhaps at no great ease ; exactly close and dark, — save at one hole, about an inch and a half in the diameter, to which he applies a long perspective... "
The Oriental herald and colonial review [ed. by J.S. Buckingham]. - Page 105
edited by - 1827
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 pages
...inch and an half in the diameter, to which he applies a long perspective trunk, with the convexglass fitted to the said hole, and the concave taken out...tent, through which the visible radiations of all the object* without are intromitted, falling upon a paper which is accommodated to receive them ; and so...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 pages
...inch and an half in the diameter, to which he applies a long perspective trunk, with the convexglass fitted to the said hole, and the concave taken out...tent, through which the visible radiations of all the object* without are intromitted, falling upon a paper which is accommodated to receive them ; and so...
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Kentish Poets: A Series of Writers in English Poetry, Natives ..., Volumes 1-2

Rowland Freeman - 1821 - 846 pages
...and perhaps at no great ease; exactly close and dark, save at one hole, about an inch and a half in the diameter, to which he applies a long perspective...and the concave taken out at the other end, which extendetb. to about the middle of this erected tent, through which the visible radiations of all the...
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The flowers of literature, or, Encyclopędia of anecdote, a coll ..., Volume 1

William Oxberry - 1822 - 430 pages
...and perhaps at no great ease ; exactly close and dark, save at one hole, about an inch and a half in the diameter, to which he applies a long perspective...tent; through which the visible radiations of all without are intromitted, falling upon a paper which is accomodated to. receive them ; and so he traceth...
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The Flowers of Literature: Consisting of Selections from History ..., Volume 1

William Oxberry - 1824 - 384 pages
...and perhaps at no great ease ; exactly close and dark, save at one hole, about an inch and a half in the diameter, to which he applies a long perspective...tent; through which the ,visible radiations of all without arc intromitted, falling upon a paper which is accommodated to receive them; and so he traceth...
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Glasgow Mechanics' Magazine, and Annals of Philosophy, Volume 3

1825 - 590 pages
...and perhaps at no great ease; exactly close and dark, save at one hole, about an inch and a half in the diameter, to which he applies a long perspective...tent ; through which the visible radiations of all without are intromitted, fall320 THE GLASGOW MECHANICS' MAGAZINE. ing upon a paper which ia accommodated...
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The Irish Metropolitan Magazine. ..., Volume 2

1858 - 734 pages
...and perhaps at no great ease ; exactly close and dark, save at one hole, about an inch and half in the diameter, to which he applies a long perspective...tent, through which the visible radiations of all are intermitted, falling upon a paper which is accommodated to receive them ; and so he traceth them...
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History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, Volume 2

Thomas Carlyle - 1858 - 350 pages
...about an ' ' inch and a half in the diameter , to which he applies a long "perspective Trunk, with the convex glass fitted to the said ' ' hole , and the...the Objects without are "intromitted, falling upon aPaper, which is accommodated to "receive them; and so he traceth them with his pen in their "natural...
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History of Friedrich the Second, Called Frederick the Great, Volume 1

Thomas Carlyle - 1859 - 512 pages
...hole, about an inch and a half in the diameter, to which he applies a long perspective Trunk, with the convex glass fitted to the said hole, and the concave...the visible radiations of all the Objects without arc intromitted, falling upon a Paper, which is accommodated to receive them ; and so he traceth them...
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed ..., Volume 3; Volume 79

Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...and perhaps at no great ease ; exactly close and dark, save at one hole, about an inch and a half in ising that weak elegancy of mind, exquisite sensibility,...the sexual characteristics of the weaker vessel, I oxtendeth to about the middle of this erected tent, through which the visible radiations of all the...
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