The Popular Science Monthly, 45. köideD. Appleton, 1894 |
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... play for this errand are the insects and the wind . The structure of the plant shows that under any ordinary conditions the wind would * Houstonia c¿rulea , + Brenthis bellona . not serve the purpose , so that the insects only 20 THE ...
... play for this errand are the insects and the wind . The structure of the plant shows that under any ordinary conditions the wind would * Houstonia c¿rulea , + Brenthis bellona . not serve the purpose , so that the insects only 20 THE ...
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... play of thought about them than this very problem of education , and it has been thought of a high character . The various lines which this thought has taken are to be found in the histories of education . It is noticeable in glancing ...
... play of thought about them than this very problem of education , and it has been thought of a high character . The various lines which this thought has taken are to be found in the histories of education . It is noticeable in glancing ...
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... played a selection from some popular opera , we examined their power of reproduc- tion by putting on the ear tubes , and , beginning at one end of the row in company with Mr. Edison , tried each phonograph . It was found that while some ...
... played a selection from some popular opera , we examined their power of reproduc- tion by putting on the ear tubes , and , beginning at one end of the row in company with Mr. Edison , tried each phonograph . It was found that while some ...
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... playing the piano ; besides , these foreign sounds are so deceitful as to their location that usually they seem to come from the piano itself , and it is generally very diffi- cult to convince a lady that they are anywhere else , and in ...
... playing the piano ; besides , these foreign sounds are so deceitful as to their location that usually they seem to come from the piano itself , and it is generally very diffi- cult to convince a lady that they are anywhere else , and in ...
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... player if she heard the sound then . After several vigorous thumps she was obliged to confess that she did not . Taking away my finger and allowing it to vibrate as before , I asked again , " Do you hear it now ? " The answer this time ...
... player if she heard the sound then . After several vigorous thumps she was obliged to confess that she did not . Taking away my finger and allowing it to vibrate as before , I asked again , " Do you hear it now ? " The answer this time ...
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Popular passages
Page 636 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Page 407 - None knew him but to love him, None named him but to praise.
Page 361 - ... the old woman comes with a nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox, and asks what vein you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer...
Page 638 - It is indifferent for judges and magistrates ; for if they be facile and corrupt, you shall have a servant five times worse than a wife.
Page 361 - There is a set of old women who make it their business to perform the operation every autumn, in the month of September, when the great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the small-pox; they make parties for this purpose, and when they are met (commonly fifteen or sixteen together), the old woman comes with a nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox, and asks what vein you please to have opened.
Page 633 - I cannot blame him : at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shaked like a coward.
Page 636 - I'm truly sorry man's dominion. Has broken nature's social union, An' justifies that ill opinion, Which makes thee startle At me, thy poor earth-born companion, An...
Page 576 - WHEN I was sick and lay a-bed, I had two pillows at my head, And all my toys beside me lay To keep me happy all the day. And sometimes for an hour or so I watched my leaden soldiers go, With different uniforms and drills, Among the bed-clothes, through the hills. And sometimes sent my ships in fleets All up and down among the sheets; Or brought my trees and houses out, And planted cities all about.
Page 361 - The smallpox, so fatal and so general amongst us, is here entirely harmless by the invention of ingrafting, which is the term they give it. There is a set of old women who make it their business to perform the operation every autumn, in the month of September, when the great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the smallpox...
Page 819 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.