The Popular Science Monthly, Volum 17D. Appleton, 1880 |
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Side 15
... taken from the chimney of a smoking petroleum - lamp and pre- served as a curiosity on account of its intensely black color . This substance was now tried as , it would seem , a dernier ressort . The re- sults were excellent beyond all ...
... taken from the chimney of a smoking petroleum - lamp and pre- served as a curiosity on account of its intensely black color . This substance was now tried as , it would seem , a dernier ressort . The re- sults were excellent beyond all ...
Side 16
... taken from the chimney is laid upon a white slab , where the brown portions are readily detected and removed . The pure black portion is then ground and subjected to a pressure of several thousand pounds in a mold . It is then ...
... taken from the chimney is laid upon a white slab , where the brown portions are readily detected and removed . The pure black portion is then ground and subjected to a pressure of several thousand pounds in a mold . It is then ...
Side 35
... taken the above case of double personality exclaims very naïvely : " Ah ! comme il faut avoir un peu de saine complaisance pour les sept péchés capitaux ! Jugez un peu de sang de trop , peut- être un centième de gramme mal dirigé au ...
... taken the above case of double personality exclaims very naïvely : " Ah ! comme il faut avoir un peu de saine complaisance pour les sept péchés capitaux ! Jugez un peu de sang de trop , peut- être un centième de gramme mal dirigé au ...
Side 38
... taken as a humble instance , has very much of the appearance of choice . A limb is broken , or a skull is trepanned , and the limb becomes as strong as ever , and the skull retains whatever brain it may have had within it , in virtue of ...
... taken as a humble instance , has very much of the appearance of choice . A limb is broken , or a skull is trepanned , and the limb becomes as strong as ever , and the skull retains whatever brain it may have had within it , in virtue of ...
Side 66
... taken an accurate survey - she notes the disorder of his garments , mentions that he is pale ( a symptom of anæmic adipose ) , but gives no hint that he has " fallen away vilely , " which would have been the first thing to attract the ...
... taken an accurate survey - she notes the disorder of his garments , mentions that he is pale ( a symptom of anæmic adipose ) , but gives no hint that he has " fallen away vilely , " which would have been the first thing to attract the ...
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Side 492 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that as a mechanism it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold logic engine with all its parts of equal strength and in smooth working order; ready like a steam engine to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind...
Side 784 - Discoursed with Mr. Hooke about the nature of sounds, and he did make me understand the nature of musicall sounds made by strings, mighty prettily; and told me that having come to a certain number of vibrations proper to make any tone, he is able to tell how many strokes a fly makes with her wings, those flies that hum in their flying, by the note that it answers to in musique, during their flying. That, I suppose, is a little too much refined; but his discourse in general of sound was mighty fine.
Side 336 - History warns us, however, that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions...
Side 101 - Shells hang at the Tree by a Neck longer than the Shell. Of a kind of Filmy substance, round, and hollow, and creassed, not unlike the Wind-pipe of a Chicken ; spreading out broadest where it is fastened to the Tree, from which it seems to draw and convey the matter which serves for the growth and vegetation of the Shell and the little Bird within it.
Side 99 - ... lace or string : next come the legs of the bird hanging out, and, as it groweth greater, it openeth the shell by degrees, till at length it is all come forth, and hangeth onely by the bill : in short space after it commeth to full maturitie, and falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers, and groweth to a fowle bigger than a mallard, and lesser than a goose...
Side 144 - I may as well abruptly avow, as the result of my reading and observation in the matter of education, that I recognize but one mental acquisition as an essential part of the education of a lady or a gentleman, — namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.
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Side 310 - And in order thereto, having darkened my chamber, and made a small hole in my window-shuts, to let in a convenient quantity of the sun's light, I placed my prism at its entrance, that it might be thereby refracted to the opposite wall.
Side 798 - On which the comment may be that one who had studied celestial mechanics as much as the reviewer has studied the general course of transformations, might similarly have remarked that the formula — 'bodies attract one another directly as their masses and inversely as the squares of their distances,' was at best but a blank form for solar systems and sidereal clusters.
Side 336 - Origin of Species" is not traceable; the foremost men of science in every country are either avowed champions of its leading doctrines, or at any rate abstain from opposing them; a host of young and ardent investigators seek for and find inspiration and guidance in Mr. Darwin's great work; and the general doctrine of evolution, to one side of which it gives expression, obtains...