Flux
Flux, Looseness, Or Scouring, Now And Then Trou Bles Horses; It Is Much More Common, However, Among Cattle; And Especially Sheep. They Do Say, That Horses Grazing Long In Marshy Pastures In Cold Weather, Will, Like Sheep, Contract The Disorder: The Writer, However, Has Never Happened To He So Situ ...
Fluxion S
Fluxion S. Tue Invention Of The Method Of Fluxions, As It Is Called In This Country, Or The Differential And Integral Calculus, As It Is Called By Foreign Mathematicians, Goes No Further Back Than The 17th Century ; But The Inquiries Which Have Led To It, Must Have Occurred To ...
Flying
Flying, Awi 'ftc Ial. Mankind Have Always Viewed The Flight Of The Feathered Tribes As An Enviable Faculty : They Have Ascribed It To Beings More Favoured Than Them Selves, Whose Power Was Courted Or Dreaded By Them ; And, After Indulging In Innumerable Fictions And Legends Concerning Its Operation, ...
Folkstone
Folkstone, The Lapis Pojiuli Of The Romans, And The Folcestane Of The Saxons, Is A Seaport Town Of England In The County Of Kent. It Is Situated On Unequal Ground Near The Sea, And Consists Of Three Irregular Streets, Built Chiefly On The Acclivity Of A Hill. The Houses, Many ...
Fontaine
Fontaine, Jon:t De La, A Celebrated French Poet, And One Of The Most Original Writers Of That Nation, Was Born At Chateau-thierry, In The Year 1621. He Received A Liberal Education, But Discovered No Peculiar Talent For Poetry Until His Twenty-second Year; At Which Period His Latent Powers Are Said ...
Fontainebleau
Fontainebleau Is A Town Of France, In The Depart Ment Of The Seine And Marne. It Is Beautifully Situated In The Forest Of The Same Name, And Consists Of A Principal Street, With Several Smaller Ones. Fontainebleau Is Chiefly Celebrated For Its Royal Palace, Which Is Built At The South ...
Forestaff
Forestaff, The Name Of A Clumsy Instrument, Long Ago Exploded, For Taking The Altitudes Of The Heavenly Bodies At Sea. Forfar-surae, One Of The Maritime Comities Of Scot Land. 1. Natural History.—the County Of Forfar, Known Also By The Name Of .4ngus, Is Situated On The Cast Coast Of Scotland, ...
Forfar
Forfar, A Royal Borough, The Capital Of The County Of Angus Or Forfar, Stands In The Great Valley Of Strathmore, Of Which It Commands A Very Rich And Extensive View To The West ; And The Prospect Is Terminated By The Sidlaw And Grampian Mountains, Some Of Which May Not ...
Formation And Progress Of
Formation And Progress Of Wealtd. Man Brings Into The World With Him Certain Wants, Which He Must Satisfy In Order To Live ; Certain Desires Which Lead Him To Expect Happiness From Particular En Joyments ; And A Certain Industry Or Aptitude For Labour, Which Enables Him To Satisfy The ...
Formosa
Formosa, Called By The Chinese Tai-ouan,t And By The Natives Kaboski And Gadavia, Is An Island Subject To China, Lying Between 22° And 23° North Lat. And Between 3° And 5° East Long. From Pekin. It Is Situated About 30 Leagues From The Coast Of The Province Of Fokien ; ...
Forres
Forres, A Town Of Scotland, In The Province Of Mo Ray, Is Situated On A Rising Ground, About A Mile To The East Of The River Finch Horn, And Two Miles From Its Mouth. The Houses Are Well Built, But The Town Seontains No Public Buildings Of Importance. On The ...
Forth
Forth, (including The Arm Of The Sea Generally Called The Frith Of Forth,) Is The Name Of The Largest River Of Scot Land, And That Which Has The Longest Course, Rising On The North Side Of The Mountain Ben Lomond, And Discharging Itself Into The German Ocean In 55° 5 ...
Fortificatmn
Fortificatmn Is The Science That Teaches The Best Me Thod Of Putting A Town, Citadel, Or Other Military Position, In Such A State Of Defence, As May Enable A Small Number Within To Hold Out Against The Attack Of A Great Number From Without, And To Afford The Besieged The ...
Foulah
Foulah, An Island In The Atlantic Ocean, Connected With Zetland, From Which It Is Distant About 20 Miles West. It Is Situated In North Latitude 60° 4', And West Longitude 1° 45'. It Is About Three Miles Long, And One Mile Broad, Chiefly Formed Of Very High Ground, And Presenting ...
Foundations
Foundations. This Term Is Applied To The Excava Tions Made In The Ground For The Base Of A Building. The Trenches Should Be Sunk Till They Arrive At Firm Soil Or Solid Rock ; And In Large Buildings The Ground Should Be Further Proved By Digging Pits, Or Boring To ...
Fountains
Fountains. See Hydrodynamics. R Onvey, Or Fnwuv, Is A Burgh And Sea-port Town Of England, In The County Of Cornwall. It Is Situated On The Western Bank Of The River Fawy, Which Here Swells Itself Into A. Spacious Harbour. The Town Stretches For More Than A Mile Along The Banks ...
Fox Islands
Fox Islands. A Great Chain Of Iclando Strotchee Across That Part Of The North Pacific Ocean Bounded By The Pen Insula Of Kamtschatka On The Asiatic Continent, And That Of Alaska In North America. The First Of These Towards The West, Was Discovered In The Earlier Part Of The Eigh ...
Franc Rabelais
Rabelais, Franc Rs, A Celebrated French Satirist, Was Born, According In Some, About The Year 1483, And, According To Others M 1490, At Chinon In Touraine. He Entered Early Among The Cordeliers, And Acquired Con Siderable Popularity As A Preacher ; But In Consequence Of Some Scandal In The Monastery, ...
Francis
Francis, Was The Son Of Dr Lewis Atterbt7y, Rector Of Milton, In Buckingham Shire, And Was Born There In 1662. He Was Educated At Westminster School, And In 16s0 Became A Student In Christ-church College, Oxford, Where, In 1684, He Took The Degree Of Bachelor, And In 1687 That Of ...
Francis De Antine
Antine, Francis De, The Author Of A Celebrated Work, L'4rt De Verifier Les Dates, Was Born At Gou Rieux, In The Diocese Of Liege, April 1st, 1688. He Was Early Sent To Douay, To Study Dialectics ; But That Branch Of Literature Not Being Suitable To His Genius, He Rejected ...
Francis De Salignac De
Fenelon, Francis De Salignac De La Motte, Archbishop Of Cambrai, Was Descended From A Very An Cient And Illustrious Family, And Was Born In The Castle Of Fenelon, In Perigord, August 6, 1651. He Was Of A Weak And Delicate Constitution ; And, Until The Twelfth Year Of His Age, ...
Francis Duke De Rochefoucault
Rochefoucault, Francis Duke De, Prince Of Marsillac, Was Born In 1613. Having Formed A Con Nection With The Duchess De Longueville, He Was At Her Instigation Involved In The Civil War Of The Fronde ; And He Distinguished Himself At The Battle Of St. Antoine, Where He Received A Musket ...
Francis Eugene
Eugene, Francis, Prince Of Savoy, Was Born In 1663, And Was Descended From Carignan, One Of The Three Branches Of The House Of Savoy. His Father Was Eugene Maurice, Earl Of Soissons, General Of The Swiss And Grisons, And Governor Of Champagne In France ; And His Mother Was Olympia ...
Francis Grose
Grose, Francis, A Celebrated Antiquarian, Was Born In 1731, And Was The Son Of A Jeweller At Richmond, Who Died In The Year 1769, And Left His Son An Independent For Tune. He Entered Into The Surrey Militia, And Was Appoint Ed Adjutant And Paymaster ; And Such Was His ...
Francis Hutcheson
Hutcheson, Francis, An Ingenious Philosopher And Elegant Writer, Was The Son Of A Dissenting Minister In The North Of Ireland, And Was Born On The 8th Of August, 1694. From His Childhood He Discovered A Superior Capacity, And An Ardent Thirst After Knowledge ; And Having Received The Usual Elementary ...
Franconia
Franconia, A Circle In The Centre Of Germany, And Anciently A Part Of Thuringia, Is Situated Between 43° 45' And 50° 50' North Latitude, And Between 9° 20' And 12° 10 East Longitude From Greenwich. It Extends In Some Places 140 Miles From North To South, And Between 90 And ...
Frankfort
Frankfort, On The Mayne, An Imperial City In The Circle Of The Upper Rhine, Is About 35 Miles Eastward Of Mentz, And Is Situated In The Centre Of The Finest District Of Germany. It Was Anciently The Residence Of The Frankish Monarchs, And Is Still The Place Where The Electors ...
Frankincense
Frankincense, Alynan.—after The Remarks Which We Made On Benzoin, It Is Almost Fruitless To Say Any Thing About These Gums, Since They Are Equally Useless. It Ought, However, To Be Known To All Makers Of Fire Works, That None Of These Substances Yield A Smell Un Less They Smoke, And ...