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Side 15 - The path that conducts thee to splendour again. But man's faded glory what change shall renew? Ah, fool...
Side 190 - Cavendish made the experiment which bears his name, in which the attraction exerted by the earth upon a body on its surface was compared with the attraction exerted by a large metallic ball on the same body ; and this experiment was repeated still more...
Side 127 - Aqueduct, which was published while the same was in progress of erection, and which will answer as a specimen, both of the artificial and the compound hylabiamechanics. The city of New York is soon to be supplied with water from the Croton river, a mill stream that rises among the highlands of Westchester and Putnam counties, in the State of New York, and, winding its way in a southwestwardly direction, discharges from thirty to fifty millions of gallons daily into the Hudson, a few miles north of...
Side 3 - It is possible that, hereafter, some sublime generalization may embrace the phenomena of heat, of light, and of electricity, of cohesion, and gravity, as well as of chemical affinity within one law, and indicate how, by varied manifestations of a single agent, their separate peculiarities may arise ; but though we may look forward to such a state of science, we dare not rashly seek to anticipate its approach...