The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and Instructive Articles on Scientific Subjects, 2. köideJames Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas Robert Hardwicke, 1863 |
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... object to connect them with the history of the past . In fact , planting of the " British oak " has not only been considered a duty , but fol- lowed out with the keenest pleasure by the country gentleman . In so doing , the question has ...
... object to connect them with the history of the past . In fact , planting of the " British oak " has not only been considered a duty , but fol- lowed out with the keenest pleasure by the country gentleman . In so doing , the question has ...
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... object which we are about to describe is found not alone in the river Thames , but also in many others . We have , however , obtained it from our own stream , near Waterloo Bridge , at low - tide , and it is then so plentiful as to ...
... object which we are about to describe is found not alone in the river Thames , but also in many others . We have , however , obtained it from our own stream , near Waterloo Bridge , at low - tide , and it is then so plentiful as to ...
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... object , such as a cork or a piece of polished metal , at a short distance from the forehead of the patient , and requesting him to fix his eyes steadfastly upon it . After some time , which varies from a few minutes to half an hour or ...
... object , such as a cork or a piece of polished metal , at a short distance from the forehead of the patient , and requesting him to fix his eyes steadfastly upon it . After some time , which varies from a few minutes to half an hour or ...
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... object , such as a cork or a piece of polished metal , at a short distance from the forehead of the patient , and requesting him to fix his eyes steadfastly upon it . After some time , which varies from a few minutes to half an hour or ...
... object , such as a cork or a piece of polished metal , at a short distance from the forehead of the patient , and requesting him to fix his eyes steadfastly upon it . After some time , which varies from a few minutes to half an hour or ...
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... object , and those lines could not again be covered with silver . By the old plan , every portion of a figure which was " undercut , " ie . in which the external parts overhung the internal ones , as the mouth or ear of an animal , for ...
... object , and those lines could not again be covered with silver . By the old plan , every portion of a figure which was " undercut , " ie . in which the external parts overhung the internal ones , as the mouth or ear of an animal , for ...
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Page 393 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Page 341 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up...
Page 99 - How gloriously her gallant course she goes! Her white wings flying — never from her foes — She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife.
Page 392 - Authors of the highest eminence seem to be fully satisfied with the view that each species has been independently created. To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the Creator, that the production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants of the world should have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual.
Page 392 - I believe that animals are descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number.
Page 392 - Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth, have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.
Page 21 - As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place.
Page 496 - That, for instance, in acquiring the sensation of redness, our eyes are affected four hundred and eighty-two millions of millions of times ; of yellowness, five hundred and forty-two millions of millions of times ; and of violet, seven hundred and seven millions of millions of times per second...
Page 346 - Trees having this character of wood are rare, and do not exist in the proportion of one to a hundred. The serpentine direction of the fibre, which renders them difficult to split and to work, produces, in the hands of a skilful mechanic, the most beautiful effects of light and shade. These effects are rendered more striking, if, after smoothing the surface of the wood with a double-ironed plane, it is rubbed with a little sulphuric acid, and afterwards anointed with linseed oil.
Page 200 - Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.