ANNUAL OF SCIENCE.
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ARCANA of SCIENCE, and ANNUAL REGISTER of the USEFUL ARTS for 1831.
Comprising POPULAR INVENTIONS, IMPROVEMENTS, and DISCOVERIES Abridged from the Transactions of Public Societies and Scientific Journals of the past year. With several Engravings.
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Footnote 1: [(return)]
Hutchins’s Dorset, vol. i, p. 279, 2nd edit.
Footnote 2: [(return)]Maton’s Observations, vol. i. p. 12.
Footnote 3: [(return)]Hutchins’s Dorset, vol. i. p. 286, 2nd edit.
Footnote 4: [(return)]Our correspondent’s communication is in appearance “full, fair, and free,” as all “representations” ought to be.—ED.
Footnote 5: [(return)]Ribbans’s “Effusions.”
Footnote 6: [(return)]The greater part of the kings, both of Israel and of Judah, served strange gods. Under Josiah, as he cleared out the Temple, the book of the laws of Moses was found by Hilkiah the priest, and was delivered to the king, who was much struck with the threatenings it contained.
Footnote 7: [(return)]About fifty years after the destruction of Jerusalem, when the great body of the Jews held the opinion that the time for the appearance of their Messias had arrived, there arose this man, who announced himself in that character, and called himself Bar Cochef, or the “Son of a Star.” He was acknowledged by numbers of his people, who became his followers, declared him their king, and made war upon the Romans, many of whom were destroyed, both in Greece and in Africa. His power continued betwixt three and four years, when the very people who had supported him proclaimed him an impostor, and gave him the name Bar Cosifa, or the “Son of a Lie.”
Footnote 8: [(return)]One of Mr. St. John’s lines in the Essay on the Influence of Great Cities (the worst in the volume,) is “The very name of London sounds sweetly to me.” This is not a whit better than the man who thought “no garden like Covent Garden, and no flower like a cauliflower.” Captain Morris’s “sweet shady side of Pall Mall,” compared to these sentiments, is a piece of delicious refinement.
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