The Saturday Magazine, Volume 6J. W. Parker, 1835 |
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... body with a smaller one . Another very curious feat is related by Dr. Brewster . John Charles van Eckenberg , a ... bodies when brought into contact with each other . The force with which two bodies strike each other when brought into ...
... body with a smaller one . Another very curious feat is related by Dr. Brewster . John Charles van Eckenberg , a ... bodies when brought into contact with each other . The force with which two bodies strike each other when brought into ...
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... bodies was moving with four or five times the velocity of the other , then the quickest moving body would strike the slowest mover , with four or five times the force that would have otherwise been the case . If we wish the slowest ...
... bodies was moving with four or five times the velocity of the other , then the quickest moving body would strike the slowest mover , with four or five times the force that would have otherwise been the case . If we wish the slowest ...
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... body of water in the centre of this figure , descends in one unbroken sheet of vivid green , and contrasts finely with the awful perturba- tion of the caldron . But towards either extremity it is different . The water there , at the ...
... body of water in the centre of this figure , descends in one unbroken sheet of vivid green , and contrasts finely with the awful perturba- tion of the caldron . But towards either extremity it is different . The water there , at the ...
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... body of sound is generated in a cavern far below the level of the surrounding country , and fenced in on three sides by walls of perpendicular rock . The noise vibrates from side to side of this sunless cavity , and only a small portion ...
... body of sound is generated in a cavern far below the level of the surrounding country , and fenced in on three sides by walls of perpendicular rock . The noise vibrates from side to side of this sunless cavity , and only a small portion ...
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... body . The materials of which the body is formed , are rabbits ' down , lambs ' wool , and a small quantity of camels ' hair . The camels ' hair , which is a much longer fibre than either of the other two materials , assists greatly in ...
... body . The materials of which the body is formed , are rabbits ' down , lambs ' wool , and a small quantity of camels ' hair . The camels ' hair , which is a much longer fibre than either of the other two materials , assists greatly in ...
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Page 6 - I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
Page 177 - The schoolboy, wandering through the wood To pull the primrose gay, Starts, the new voice of spring to hear, And imitates thy lay. What time the pea puts on the bloom, Thou fliest thy vocal vale, An annual guest in other lands, Another spring to hail. Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
Page 14 - Key is always bright, as Poor Richard says. But dost thou love Life, then do not squander Time, for that' s the Stuff Life is made of, as Poor Richard says. -How much more than is necessary do we spend in Sleep ! forgetting that The sleeping Fox catches no Poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the Grave, as Poor Richard says.
Page 14 - He that riseth late must trot all Day, and shall scarce overtake his Business at Night; while Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him...
Page 93 - ... till the whole firmament was in a glow. The blueness of the ether was exceedingly heightened and enlivened by the season of the year, and by the rays of all those luminaries that passed through it. The galaxy appeared in its most beautiful white. To complete the scene, the full moon rose at length in that clouded majesty...
Page 14 - What though you have found no treasure, nor has any rich relation left you a legacy, Diligence is the mother of good luck, as Poor Richard says, and God gives all things to industry. Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, And you shall have corn to sell and to keep, says Poor Dick.
Page 14 - He that hath a trade, hath an estate ; and he that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honour,' as Poor Richard says ; but then the trade must be worked at, and the calling well followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. If we are industrious, we shall never starve ; for ' at the working man's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter.
Page 6 - By degrees we let fall the remembrance of our original intention, and quit the only adequate object of rational desire. We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves in luxury, and rove through the labyrinths of inconstancy, till the darkness of old age begins to invade us, and disease and Anxiety obstruct our way.
Page 221 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Page 69 - ... the night threatened to be very uncomfortable, for the wind rose, and there was great appearance of a heavy rain ; and the wild beasts are so very numerous in the neighbourhood, that I should have been under the necessity of climbing up the tree, and resting among the branches.