The worthies of Cumberland, Volume 5George Routledge & Sons, 1867 |
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... looks to the East for the growth and collateral bearings of his civilisation , and , in endeavouring to fathom the impenetrable problem of his own genesis , and the gradatory lines of his intellectual and moral development , is led to ...
... looks to the East for the growth and collateral bearings of his civilisation , and , in endeavouring to fathom the impenetrable problem of his own genesis , and the gradatory lines of his intellectual and moral development , is led to ...
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... look upon this introductory chapter as meant for the general reader . So slight a historical sketch of the rise of chemistry can only offer a glance at the tentative efforts of the early workers in the field , polypharmists , alchemists ...
... look upon this introductory chapter as meant for the general reader . So slight a historical sketch of the rise of chemistry can only offer a glance at the tentative efforts of the early workers in the field , polypharmists , alchemists ...
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... look upon this as a trifling and childish amusement , but few of this nature are such in a philosophical sense . If to be able to predict the state of the weather , with tolerable precision , by which great advantages might accrue to ...
... look upon this as a trifling and childish amusement , but few of this nature are such in a philosophical sense . If to be able to predict the state of the weather , with tolerable precision , by which great advantages might accrue to ...
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... look very pretty , and attract the attention of a , both leamed and unleamed ; this has induced me to think that a tolerable collection of them treated in this manner , would be a very proper object in the museum . I cannot say what ...
... look very pretty , and attract the attention of a , both leamed and unleamed ; this has induced me to think that a tolerable collection of them treated in this manner , would be a very proper object in the museum . I cannot say what ...
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... look upon others , and not himself , as wanting in true perception of colour ? But how did he reconcile the usual description of natural objects and scenery with his own notions of colour - distinction ? When people talked of the beauty ...
... look upon others , and not himself , as wanting in true perception of colour ? But how did he reconcile the usual description of natural objects and scenery with his own notions of colour - distinction ? When people talked of the beauty ...
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Page 129 - 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 178 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable 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; and that these primitive particles being solids are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces, no ordinary power being able to...
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 209 - 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 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.
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Page 179 - To trace in Nature's most minute design The signature and stamp of power Divine, Contrivance intricate, expressed with ease, Where unassisted sight no beauty sees, The shapely limb and lubricated joint, Within the small dimensions of a point, Muscle and nerve miraculously spun, His mighty work who speaks and it is done...
Page 166 - There is a strong propensity which dances through every atom, and attracts the minutest particle to some peculiar object ; search this universe from its base to its summit, from fire to air, from water to earth, from all below the moon to all above the celestial spheres, and thou wilt not find a corpuscle destitute of that natural attractibility...
Page 208 - In all chemical investigations, it has justly been considered an important object to ascertain the relative weights of the simples which constitute a compound. 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...
Page 136 - ... 3. The quantity of any liquid evaporated in the open air is directly as the force of steam from such liquid at its temperature, all other circumstances being the same.