The Popular Science Monthly, Volum 11D. Appleton, 1877 |
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Side 15
... earth than is known to our philosophy ; " and would be among the first to welcome any addition to our real knowledge of the great agencies of Nature . But my contention is , that no new principle of action has any claim to scientific ...
... earth than is known to our philosophy ; " and would be among the first to welcome any addition to our real knowledge of the great agencies of Nature . But my contention is , that no new principle of action has any claim to scientific ...
Side 34
... earth or embankment through which it is carried . The object aimed at is to keep the water cold in summer and from freezing in winter . It has several splendid arcades , chief among which are one at Baden , another at Mödling , and a ...
... earth or embankment through which it is carried . The object aimed at is to keep the water cold in summer and from freezing in winter . It has several splendid arcades , chief among which are one at Baden , another at Mödling , and a ...
Side 37
... earth , so insignificantly small as com- pared with the sun , both in volume and mass , attracts the sun with a force exactly equal to that which , being by the sun exerted on itself , reduces it to obedience , and compels it to make ...
... earth , so insignificantly small as com- pared with the sun , both in volume and mass , attracts the sun with a force exactly equal to that which , being by the sun exerted on itself , reduces it to obedience , and compels it to make ...
Side 38
... earth and moon . The earth by its attraction compels the moon to make around it as a centre her monthly revolution ; but it is equally true that the moon compels the earth to move around the centre of gravity of the earth and moon ...
... earth and moon . The earth by its attraction compels the moon to make around it as a centre her monthly revolution ; but it is equally true that the moon compels the earth to move around the centre of gravity of the earth and moon ...
Side 47
... earth for a quarter of an inch , to have made a bridge by which the food might have been reached , but this simple ... earth just over the hole , carrying off the grains of earth one by one , and depositing them , without any order , all ...
... earth for a quarter of an inch , to have made a bridge by which the food might have been reached , but this simple ... earth just over the hole , carrying off the grains of earth one by one , and depositing them , without any order , all ...
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Side 688 - They say, best men are moulded out of faults; And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad: so may my husband.
Side 458 - ... if the time should ever come when these things shall be familiar to us, and the relations under which they are contemplated by the followers of these respective sciences shall be manifestly and palpably material to us as enjoying and suffering beings.
Side 39 - The anthropoid apes no doubt approach nearer to man in bodily structure than do any other animals, but, when we consider the habits of ants, their large communities and elaborate habitations, their roadways, their possession of domestic animals, and. even in some cases, of slaves, it must be admitted that they have a fair claim to rank next to man in the scale of intelligence.
Side 733 - Therefore every honourable connexion will avow it is their first purpose, to pursue every just method to put the men who hold their opinions into such a condition as may enable them to carry their common plans into execution, with all the power and authority of the state. As this power is attached to certain situations, it is their duty to contend for these situations.
Side 379 - That the tables in the schedule hereto annexed shall be recognized in the construction of contracts and in all legal proceedings as establishing in- terms of the weights and measures now in use in the United States: the equivalents of the weights and measures expressed therein in terms of the metric system...
Side 586 - I often tried, and very nearly succeeded, in catching these birds by their legs. Formerly the birds appear to have been even tamer than at present. Cowley (in the year 1684) says that the "Turtle-doves were so tame...
Side 196 - Only very late and slowly have our minds opened to the conviction that after all the earth moves round the sun, and not the sun round the earth, and that our eyes had all the while been mistaken.
Side 733 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed. For my part I find it impossible to conceive that any one believes in his own politics, or thinks them to be of any weight, who refuses to adopt the means of having them reduced into practice.
Side 458 - Poet will sleep then no more than at present ; he will be ready to follow the steps of the Man of science, not only in those general indirect effects, but he will be at his side, carrying sensation into the midst of the objects of the science itself.
Side 435 - were made for labour; one of them can carry, or haul, as much as two men can do. They also pitch our tents, make and mend our clothing, keep us warm at night; and, in fact, there is no such thing as travelling any considerable distance, or for any length of time, in this country, without their assistance.