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... perceived . In many places also are volcanoes sufficiently large to be distinguished , especially in the sha- dow and when forests or great towns are on fire , it can hardly be doubted , but these luminous objects would appear , either ...
... perceived . In many places also are volcanoes sufficiently large to be distinguished , especially in the sha- dow and when forests or great towns are on fire , it can hardly be doubted , but these luminous objects would appear , either ...
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... perceive a feeble motion of flexion and extension , and they begin to look yellowish and hairy , shaped very like a small maggot ; and so keeping that shape grow almost as large as an ant , and have every one a black spot on them . Then ...
... perceive a feeble motion of flexion and extension , and they begin to look yellowish and hairy , shaped very like a small maggot ; and so keeping that shape grow almost as large as an ant , and have every one a black spot on them . Then ...
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... perceive any light at all to proceed from the wood . We let in the air again by degrees , and had the pleasure to see the ... perceived to be as it were revived and increased , those parts of the fish that were scarce visible before , or ...
... perceive any light at all to proceed from the wood . We let in the air again by degrees , and had the pleasure to see the ... perceived to be as it were revived and increased , those parts of the fish that were scarce visible before , or ...
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... perceived that either the absence or return of the air had any great effect upon the light of the immersed body . Placing a very luminous piece of shining fish in the re- ceiver , after exhausting it was kept there 48 hours , in which ...
... perceived that either the absence or return of the air had any great effect upon the light of the immersed body . Placing a very luminous piece of shining fish in the re- ceiver , after exhausting it was kept there 48 hours , in which ...
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... perceive any difference at all . Having had frequent occasions to observe how quickly those animals , whose blood is actually warm , did expire in our vacuum , and that even those animals with lungs , whose blood was actually cold ...
... perceive any difference at all . Having had frequent occasions to observe how quickly those animals , whose blood is actually warm , did expire in our vacuum , and that even those animals with lungs , whose blood was actually cold ...
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Side 155 - And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Side 255 - One particular only (though it may appear trifling) I will relate. Having often forgot which was the cat, and which the dog, he was ashamed to ask ; but catching the cat (which he knew by feeling) he was observed to look at her steadfastly, and then setting her down, said, so puss ! I shall know you another time.
Side 255 - ... he could form no judgment of their shape, or guess what it was in any object that was pleasing to him. He knew not the shape of any thing, nor any one thing from another, however different in shape or magnitude ; but upon being told what things were, whose form he before knew from feeling, he would carefully observe, that he might know them again...
Side 491 - ... its load with a jerk, and quite disengaged it from the nest. It remained in this situation a short time, feeling about with the extremities of its wings, as if to be convinced whether the business was properly executed, and then dropped into the nest again.
Side 33 - Prisme at the window, so that the light might pass through a small hole, made in it for the purpose, and fall on the other board, which I placed at about 12...
Side 555 - By meditating on the results of all these experiments, we are naturally brought to that great question which has so often been the subject of speculation among philosophers, namely, What is heat — is there any such thing as an igneous fluid ? Is there anything that...
Side 491 - It remained in this situation a short time, feeling about with the extremities of its wings, as if to be convinced whether the business was properly executed, and then dropped into the nest again. With these (the extremities of its wings) I have often seen it examine, as it were, an egg and nestling before it began its operations; and the nice sensibility which these parts appeared to possess seemed sufficiently to compensate the want of sight, which as yet it was destitute of. I afterwards put in...
Side 357 - AS frequent mention is made in public papers from Europe of the success of the Philadelphia experiment for drawing the electric fire from clouds by means of pointed rods of iron erected on high buildings...
Side 256 - Epsom Downs, and observing a large prospect, he was exceedingly delighted with it, and called it a new kind of seeing.
Side 555 - It is hardly necessary to add, that anything which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish 'without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of...