Questions

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A70606And if so, what a toil must it be to suppute twenty or thirty of these in a night?
A70606Who is it that will now question the force of Gun- powder, or whether the Mercury rise and fall in the Baroscope at fair or foul Weather?
A70606or does this Definition lead him to improve Light for the advancement and help of our senses, or other advantage of mankind?
A70606quarter of 39.2) inches vibrate in a minute?
A60472Are all springs troubled with those defects?
A60472At what time will they differ?
A60472But t is observed that they vary many times from the Sun, how can this be but from the Pendulum?
A60472By what means may these detents be known, or how shall we find them, when there may be occasion to make use of them?
A60472Chi ▪ When a Pendulum is once rectified will it not alter like the Ballance Clock?
A60472Do they strike on one bell onely or on more?
A60472From whence do those Movements that go without weights receive their motion?
A60472Have you nothing more to deliver concerning Pendulums?
A60472How are these quarter and repeating Clocks to be managed in their setting?
A60472How do sounds of Bells spread or move in the air?
A60472How doth the repeating Clock strike?
A60472How is it the Spring- makers fault?
A60472How is this proved?
A60472How must it be ordered as to its striking?
A60472How often do Clocks require to be cleansed?
A60472Is it considerable whether or no we keep a true time in winding up Watches or Clock ●?
A60472Is it possible so to adjust a fuzey to the draught of a spring, that there shall be no alteration of time in those Watches which it moveth?
A60472Is not air and dust very Injurious to a Clock?
A60472Is the draught of a spring equally in a ● l places alike, or doth it differ according as it may be str ● ● ned?
A60472Is the long pendulum subject to variation as the short one is?
A60472May there be any rules given for the setting, and keeping in order these motions, or may their use be known without experience?
A60472Secondly, what diminution of substance in a bell of any weight, will be sufficient to make that Bell a tone more bas ●?
A60472Suppose a watch should be set to a Sun- dial betimes in the morning, what then?
A60472Tell me precisely what hours are fittest for that purpose?
A60472Thirdly, what bore a Bell of any weight requires to majorate the sound thereof to the highest degree possible?
A60472What altitude may the Sun attain before we may put confidence in a Sun- dial?
A60472What conclusions may be drawn from hence?
A60472What do you infer from hence?
A60472What is a spring?
A60472What is required in its officiousness to make it good or excellent?
A60472What is the inequality of time and wherin doth it consist?
A60472What is the most true and exact way of justening Clocks by the Sun?
A60472What is the reason of this inequality of time?
A60472What is the refraction of the Suns beams, and how is it caused?
A60472What may be the quantity of their error?
A60472What must be observed when Clocks or Watches want cleansing or repairing?
A60472What reason have you to believe the Suns unequal Course to be the cause?
A60472What weight of Hammer is best for to make the Bell give forth its true and natural sound?
A60472When it is thus sitted to its work, how doth it perform or draw, so as to give motion to the wheels after it is wound up?
A60472Which way must the hand be turned when we set either Clock or watch?
A60472are not these refractions always equal throughout the year?
A60472or what diminution of depth shall be sufficient to make it a note sharper?
A12614& well cōsidering that wee daylie incline to our end, our death, and that we euer dye?
A12614But what?
A12614Euthymius expounding the vvords of the Psalmist: who is the man vvho desireth life, and to see good daies?
A12614My meaning, my application is, that novv a dayes are many Christians vvho beleiue, and adore a God; but hovv?
A12614The King asked of him, how many are the yeares thou hast lived?
A12614Then well may I say, if the Heathens valued time at so high a rate, with what greater reasō should the Christian esteeme of it, compleatly prise it?
A12614What a pretious iewell Time is?
A12614and that thou takest away it''s time, doth injure it, and stealest from it, and employest it so ill?
A12614art thou so void of consideration and iudg ● ment?
A12614or such other?
A12614poore vvretch if to morrovv, vvhy not to day?
A12614poore wretch as I am, vvas euer knowne the like?
A12614so that obserue thy will I speake with more reason then doe you, for you are not maister of any time but of this present day, vvhat say I?
A12614tell me farther, doe not many dye vvithout confession, vvithout giuing account penitently of their trespasses?
A12614this being the safest, the most secure, hence the best?
A12614vntill time glide away, fully make his flight vntill the houre compleatly be runne?
A12614vvhat grace of delivery, vvhat eloquence, what sweetly- spun, or flowing speech of man can declare it, lively and sprightly expresse it?
A12614vvhat is more excellent?
A12614vvhat is there more beautifull, more to be beloved then time?
A12614vvhat more deare?
A12614vvhat of greater benefit?
A12614vvho is he, vvho can vvith full extent of spirit and vnderstanding apprehend of vvhat price, of vvhat vvorth is time?
A12614vvho is there, vvho is capable?
A12614what vrge you, what may be called your true meanings herein?