Hooker's New Physiology

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Sheldon, 1874 - 376 sider
 

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Side 302 - This pause was sometimes followed by changing the position of the material judged ; and sometimes it was left in its place. After he had piled up his materials in one part of the room, (for he generally chose the same place,) he proceeded to wall up the space between the feet of a chest of drawers which stood at a little distance from it, high enough on its legs to make the bottom a roof for him ; using for this purpose dried turf and sticks, which he laid very even, and filling up the interstices...
Side 301 - ... in an oblique direction, till it arrived at the point where it wished to place it. The long and large materials were always taken first, and two of the longest were generally laid crosswise, with one of the ends of each touching the wall, and the...
Side x - Learn to make a right use of your eyes : the commonest things are worth looking at — even stones and weeds, and the most familiar animals.
Side 302 - The long and large materials were always taken first, and two of the longest were generally laid crosswise, with one of the ends of each touching the wall, and the other ends projecting out into the room. The...
Side 330 - Society, from seeds taken from the stomach of a man, whose skeleton was found 30 feet below the surface of the earth, at the bottom of a barrow which was opened near Dorchester. He had been buried with some coins of the Emperor Hadrian, and it is probable, therefore, that the seeds were sixteen or seventeen hundred years old.
Side 215 - It is calculated that the ligaments vary in length only about the \ of an inch in producing all the notes of the voice. Now the natural compass of the voice (that is its range from its lowest to its highest note) in most singers is about two octaves or 24 semitones. Within each semitone a singer of ordinary capability can produce 5 or 6 distinct notes ; so that for the whole number of notes that he can sound distinctly 120 is a moderate estimate. He therefore produces 120 different states of tension...
Side 302 - As the work grew high he supported himself on his tail, which propped him up admirably ; and he would often, after laying on one of his building materials, sit up over against it, appearing to consider his work, or, as the...

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