Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society, Volume 18Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society., 1856 |
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... suppose to be the general cause of thunder and lightning . " " Now , from the conclusions in the preceding sections , we are under the necessity of considering the beams of the aurora borealis of a ferruginous nature , because nothing ...
... suppose to be the general cause of thunder and lightning . " " Now , from the conclusions in the preceding sections , we are under the necessity of considering the beams of the aurora borealis of a ferruginous nature , because nothing ...
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... suppose that this elastic fluid of magnetic matter is , like vapourized air , an imperfect conductor of electricity ; and that when the equi- librium of electricity in the higher regions of the atmosphere is disturbed , I conceive that ...
... suppose that this elastic fluid of magnetic matter is , like vapourized air , an imperfect conductor of electricity ; and that when the equi- librium of electricity in the higher regions of the atmosphere is disturbed , I conceive that ...
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... suppose that it arose simply from a want of agreement with current opinions which he was unwilling to disturb , but as he stood in the same attitude towards metaphysical opinions , we may fairly conclude that those faculties which ...
... suppose that it arose simply from a want of agreement with current opinions which he was unwilling to disturb , but as he stood in the same attitude towards metaphysical opinions , we may fairly conclude that those faculties which ...
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... suppose ) having been up late the night before . The old gentleman told us a friend of his travelling in Wales having occasion to call at an inn to breakfast , found the housemaid busy rubbing the irons ; she left them , and took his ...
... suppose ) having been up late the night before . The old gentleman told us a friend of his travelling in Wales having occasion to call at an inn to breakfast , found the housemaid busy rubbing the irons ; she left them , and took his ...
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... suppose th to be merely ridiculous . It evidently involves an e of the idea of body , the limits of which are still u and in some form or other it has often risen , and again to rise , for discussion . We find that ir . nearly all the ...
... suppose th to be merely ridiculous . It evidently involves an e of the idea of body , the limits of which are still u and in some form or other it has often risen , and again to rise , for discussion . We find that ir . nearly all the ...
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Page 125 - 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...
Page 125 - ... 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 divide what God himself made one in the first creation.
Page 126 - While the Particles continue entire, they may compose Bodies of one and the same Nature and Texture in all Ages: But should they wear away, or break in pieces, the Nature of Things depending on them, would be changed.
Page 304 - Morley. — A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE of the HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS in the ARABIC and PERSIAN LANGUAGES preserved in the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
Page 233 - When any body exists in the elastic state, its ultimate particles are separated from each other to a much greater distance than in any other state; each particle occupies the centre of a comparatively large sphere, and supports its dignity by keeping all the rest, which by their gravity, or otherwise, are disposed to encroach upon it, at a respectful distance.
Page 265 - for the development of the chemical theory of definite proportions, usually called the Atomic Theory, and for his various other labours and discoveries in physical and chemical science.
Page 44 - These facts clearly point out the theory of the process : the elements of oxygen may combine with a certain portion of nitrous gas, or with twice that portion, but with no intermediate quantity.
Page 49 - I have lately been prosecuting this enquiry with remarkable success. The principle cannot be entered upon in this paper ; but I shall just subjoin the results, as far as they appear to be ascertained by my experiments. ** TABLE of the relative weights of the ultimate particles of gaseous and other bodies.
Page 49 - An enquiry into the relative weights of the ultimate particles of bodies is a subject, as far as I know, entirely new : I have lately been prosecuting this enquiry with remarkable success.
Page 96 - 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...