The Popular Science Monthly, 12. köideD. Appleton, 1878 |
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... light is another property which is not now confined within a narrow area ; transparency is no longer attributed to a few bodies only - air , glass , and the like — it is extended to matter universally , experiment and reason both ...
... light is another property which is not now confined within a narrow area ; transparency is no longer attributed to a few bodies only - air , glass , and the like — it is extended to matter universally , experiment and reason both ...
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... light , and light chemical action - it must be that there are intermediate phases which a body assumes while passing from the manifestation of one of these forces to another . It must be that the ordinary forms of force just named ...
... light , and light chemical action - it must be that there are intermediate phases which a body assumes while passing from the manifestation of one of these forces to another . It must be that the ordinary forms of force just named ...
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... light - motion , but the yet more inappreciable tremors of electricity and gravitation . The ordinary definitions of the interstellar ether are open to the objections urged by Mill , because of a dread there seems to be abroad of ...
... light - motion , but the yet more inappreciable tremors of electricity and gravitation . The ordinary definitions of the interstellar ether are open to the objections urged by Mill , because of a dread there seems to be abroad of ...
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... light which they seem to feel is their life . Is not all this conformable to the law by which motion takes the path of least resistance , as in the case of the waters of a broken reser- voir descending to a valley by the shortest ...
... light which they seem to feel is their life . Is not all this conformable to the law by which motion takes the path of least resistance , as in the case of the waters of a broken reser- voir descending to a valley by the shortest ...
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... light admitted fresh air at the same time . The tuguria of the Roman peasants were simply arbors ; and the domiciles of our hardy Saxon forefathers resembled the log - cabins of Eastern Tennessee - rough - hewed logs laid crosswise ...
... light admitted fresh air at the same time . The tuguria of the Roman peasants were simply arbors ; and the domiciles of our hardy Saxon forefathers resembled the log - cabins of Eastern Tennessee - rough - hewed logs laid crosswise ...
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Page 215 - It is hardly necessary to add that anything which any insulated body or system of bodies can continue to furnish without limitation cannot possibly be a material substance ; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner in which heat was excited and communicated in these experiments except it be motion.
Page 656 - If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb...
Page 655 - Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. 28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you : I am the LORD.
Page 642 - And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel. And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days...
Page 643 - And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me.
Page 442 - MR. ROBERT B. CARTER, MRCS ON THE INFLUENCE OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN PREVENTING DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM.
Page 291 - The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.
Page 190 - Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
Page 656 - And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps...
Page 574 - Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not...