John Dalton, F.R.S.: Member of the French Institute; Hon. D. C. L. Oxon.; LL. D. Edin.; President of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester &c. &cG. Routledge and sons, 1874 - 320 pages |
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Page vii
... less than a volume ; and that it would be well to wait the issue of the Lives of John Christian Curwen , William Blamire , and Sir James Graham , the first of the series of " Cumberland Worthies . " The delay that has arisen since that ...
... less than a volume ; and that it would be well to wait the issue of the Lives of John Christian Curwen , William Blamire , and Sir James Graham , the first of the series of " Cumberland Worthies . " The delay that has arisen since that ...
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... less to satisfy the wants of a quasi - popular or less instructed class of readers . The science that Dalton taught has not , however , been lightly passed over in the following pages , but rather epitomised and offered , as far as ...
... less to satisfy the wants of a quasi - popular or less instructed class of readers . The science that Dalton taught has not , however , been lightly passed over in the following pages , but rather epitomised and offered , as far as ...
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... substances of the earth to the increasing of his resources , and the bettering of his physical condition . Enraptured in belief , and not less prone to the wild- Alchemy and the Occult Arts . 3 est of superstitions 2 John Dalton .
... substances of the earth to the increasing of his resources , and the bettering of his physical condition . Enraptured in belief , and not less prone to the wild- Alchemy and the Occult Arts . 3 est of superstitions 2 John Dalton .
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... less as a source of gratification to their æsthetic tastes displayed in the colouring of their statuary , and the decoration of their magnificent temples . The higher minds of Greece - excepting the learned author of the " Historia ...
... less as a source of gratification to their æsthetic tastes displayed in the colouring of their statuary , and the decoration of their magnificent temples . The higher minds of Greece - excepting the learned author of the " Historia ...
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... less an alchemist , who spent days and nights in trying to discover the secret by which grosser metals might be changed into the more refined of gold or silver ; but he failed , like the more ancient brethren in the art . His hypo- Van ...
... less an alchemist , who spent days and nights in trying to discover the secret by which grosser metals might be changed into the more refined of gold or silver ; but he failed , like the more ancient brethren in the art . His hypo- Van ...
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Page 131 - Subtle as sphinx ; as sweet, and musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair, And, when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. Never durst poet touch a pen to write, Until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs ; O, then his lines would ravish savage ears, And plant in tyrants mild humility.
Page 265 - The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured.
Page 44 - For nature crescent does not grow alone In thews and bulk, but, as this temple waxes, The inward service of the mind and soul Grows wide withal.
Page 38 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Page 211 - Now it is one great object of this work, to show the importance and advantage of ascertaining the relative weights of the ultimate particles both of simple and compound bodies, the number of simple elementary particles which constitute one compound particle, and the number of less compound particles which enter into the formation of one more compound particle.
Page 180 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...
Page 158 - I am nearly persuaded that the circumstance depends upon the weight and number of the ultimate particles of the several gases : Those whose particles are lightest and single being least absorbable and the others more according as they increase in weight and complexity.
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Page 211 - But unfortunately the enquiry has terminated here; whereas from the relative weights in the mass, the relative weights of the ultimate particles or atoms of the bodies might have been inferred, from which their number and weight in various other compounds would appear, in order to assist and to guide future investigations, and to correct their results.
Page 293 - Thus it appears that there are two oxalates of strontian, the first obtained by saturating oxalic acid with strontian water, the second by mixing together oxalate of ammonia and muriate of strontian. It is remarkable that the first contains Just double the proportion of base contained in the second.