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... thickness . By these three dimensions the shape of a body is determined . If we think of a stone , it may be round or square ; or if of a mountain , it may be high or low ; but it will have some shape . When we speak of the size of ...
... thickness . By these three dimensions the shape of a body is determined . If we think of a stone , it may be round or square ; or if of a mountain , it may be high or low ; but it will have some shape . When we speak of the size of ...
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... thick would contain 282,000 leaves . The microscope has revealed the existence of animals , a million of which would not occupy more space than a grain of sand . Yet these animalcules , as they are called , have members and organs , and ...
... thick would contain 282,000 leaves . The microscope has revealed the existence of animals , a million of which would not occupy more space than a grain of sand . Yet these animalcules , as they are called , have members and organs , and ...
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... thickness will sustain a weight of 700 pounds . Fibrous substances , as silk and flax , possess great tenacity . The most tenacious of all substances is steel . ( 2 ) Malleability means the capability possessed by some metals , as gold ...
... thickness will sustain a weight of 700 pounds . Fibrous substances , as silk and flax , possess great tenacity . The most tenacious of all substances is steel . ( 2 ) Malleability means the capability possessed by some metals , as gold ...
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... thicker and longer , and contracts again with cold . So much is this the case , that when measure- ments are being made with an iron rod or chain , if the chain be exposed to great heat or cold , allowance must be made for difference of ...
... thicker and longer , and contracts again with cold . So much is this the case , that when measure- ments are being made with an iron rod or chain , if the chain be exposed to great heat or cold , allowance must be made for difference of ...
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... thickness of the back of the wedge . When a wedge is driven into a piece of wood up to the head , the wood at each side is forced back as far as half the thickness of the head . This has been done gradually by the sides of the split ...
... thickness of the back of the wedge . When a wedge is driven into a piece of wood up to the head , the wood at each side is forced back as far as half the thickness of the head . This has been done gradually by the sides of the split ...
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Page 244 - And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core ; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease.
Page 192 - I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Page 196 - And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes. Now, Lycidas, the shepherds weep no more; Henceforth thou art the genius of the shore, In thy large recompense, and shalt be good To all that wander in that perilous flood.
Page 212 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place.
Page 226 - Thou too, hoar Mount! with thy sky-pointing peaks, Oft from whose feet the avalanche, unheard, Shoots downward, glittering through the pure serene Into the depth of clouds, that veil thy breast — Thou too again, stupendous Mountain ! thou That as I raise my head, awhile bowed low In adoration, upward from thy base Slow travelling with dim eyes suffused with tears...
Page 247 - A thousand spurs are striking deep, a thousand spears in rest, A thousand knights are pressing close behind the snow-white crest ; And in they burst, and on they rushed, while like a guiding star, Amidst the thickest carnage blazed the helmet of Navarre.
Page 230 - Tis morn, but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun, Where furious Frank and fiery Hun Shout in their sulphurous canopy. The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory, or the grave ! Wave, Munich ! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry. Few, few shall part where many meet ! The snow shall be their winding-sheet ; And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.
Page 190 - TO DAFFODILS FAIR Daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon : As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song ; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away, Like to the Summer's rain, Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Page 210 - The unfeeling for his own. Yet, ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
Page 210 - That every labouring sinew strains, Those in the deeper vitals rage ; Lo ! Poverty, to fill the band, That numbs the soul with icy hand, And slow-consuming Age.