The Popular Science Monthly, Volum 17D. Appleton, 1880 |
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... observed among mankind . Roughly speaking , the hue of the skin varies with the latitude , the fairer races . having their homes at a distance from the equator ; the darker , within or near the tropics . This fact would seem to point to ...
... observed among mankind . Roughly speaking , the hue of the skin varies with the latitude , the fairer races . having their homes at a distance from the equator ; the darker , within or near the tropics . This fact would seem to point to ...
Side 27
... observed facts and con- clusions drawn from them , and in this sense it is atheous , or without rec- ognition of God . And , because it is so , it does not in any way trench upon theism or theology , and can not be atheistic , or in the ...
... observed facts and con- clusions drawn from them , and in this sense it is atheous , or without rec- ognition of God . And , because it is so , it does not in any way trench upon theism or theology , and can not be atheistic , or in the ...
Side 33
... observed , when this was written , that the Archbishop of York had said nearly the same thing . " Without time , no thought ; without oxygen , no thought ; with- out water , no thought . All these are true , and they import a well ...
... observed , when this was written , that the Archbishop of York had said nearly the same thing . " Without time , no thought ; without oxygen , no thought ; with- out water , no thought . All these are true , and they import a well ...
Side 48
... observed , when bored by the praises of a man who spoke six languages , that he had known a man to speak a dozen , and yet not say a word worth hearing in any one of them . The humor of the remark , as sometimes happens , has caused its ...
... observed , when bored by the praises of a man who spoke six languages , that he had known a man to speak a dozen , and yet not say a word worth hearing in any one of them . The humor of the remark , as sometimes happens , has caused its ...
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... observed , further , that this fine sense of proportion among the various parts of a visible form includes a recognition more or less distinct of an equality between relations of magnitude . And it is this fact which brings the sense of ...
... observed , further , that this fine sense of proportion among the various parts of a visible form includes a recognition more or less distinct of an equality between relations of magnitude . And it is this fact which brings the sense of ...
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Side 68 - Why, thy face is valanced since I saw thee last: com'st thou to beard me in Denmark/— What, my young lady and mistress! By'r lady, your ladyship is nearer to heaven, than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine.
Side 494 - 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 101 - ... when it is perfectly formed, the shell gapeth open, and the first thing that appeareth is the foresaid 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 338 - History warns us, however, that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions...
Side 838 - It is impossible by means of inanimate material agency to derive mechanical effect from any portion of matter by cooling it below the temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects.
Side 820 - Mr. Bell, if you hear what I say, come to the window and wave your hat.
Side 145 - 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.
Side 791 - Hooke, or me, two months' time, to bring him a convincing demonstration thereof; and besides the honour, he of us, that did it, should have from him a present of a book of 40 shillings.
Side 312 - It was at first a very pleasing divertisement to view the vivid and intense colours produced thereby; but after a while applying myself to consider them more circumspectly, I became surprised to see them in an oblong form, which, according to the received laws of Refraction, I expected should have been circular.
Side 101 - ... falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers, and groweth to a foule, bigger than a Mallard, and lesser than a Goose ; having blacke legs and bill or beake, and feathers blacke and white...