The Popular Science Monthly, 23. köideD. Appleton, 1883 |
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... passed unrecognized . There sprang up a new method , the essence of which was that the mysteries of Nature could not be known at second - hand ; that a knowledge of things could only be obtained by a contact with things themselves . The ...
... passed unrecognized . There sprang up a new method , the essence of which was that the mysteries of Nature could not be known at second - hand ; that a knowledge of things could only be obtained by a contact with things themselves . The ...
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... passed , science has resuscita these elementary genii under the form of organic germs ; and we forced to - day to recognize that the reality surpasses all the bold ceptions of the fable . From pole to pole the atmosphere transp myriads ...
... passed , science has resuscita these elementary genii under the form of organic germs ; and we forced to - day to recognize that the reality surpasses all the bold ceptions of the fable . From pole to pole the atmosphere transp myriads ...
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... , by disposing his aëroscopes so that they should register the volume of the air passing through them , years , and taking care to notice all the anterior. FIG . 1. - POUCHET'S AEROSCOPE . FIG . 3. - SPORES OF ALGE AND MOLDS IN.
... , by disposing his aëroscopes so that they should register the volume of the air passing through them , years , and taking care to notice all the anterior. FIG . 1. - POUCHET'S AEROSCOPE . FIG . 3. - SPORES OF ALGE AND MOLDS IN.
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... passing through the air , it may sometimes happen that , when a determined volume of water is evenly distributed in a considerable number of the cultivation - tubes , only a part of the tubes will become troubled . Generally , it may be ...
... passing through the air , it may sometimes happen that , when a determined volume of water is evenly distributed in a considerable number of the cultivation - tubes , only a part of the tubes will become troubled . Generally , it may be ...
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... passing from one to another , the existence of which prevents our establishing a clear distinction between the coals most homogeneous in appearance and those which show the multifarious and manifest traces of hardly altered organized ...
... passing from one to another , the existence of which prevents our establishing a clear distinction between the coals most homogeneous in appearance and those which show the multifarious and manifest traces of hardly altered organized ...
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Page 252 - And, having dropped the expected bag, pass on. He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch ! Cold and yet cheerful : messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some ; To him indifferent whether grief or joy.
Page 411 - This must have been the curriculum for their celibates," we may fancy him concluding. " I perceive here an elaborate preparation for many things: especially for reading the books of extinct nations and of co-existing nations (from which indeed it seems clear that these people had very little worth reading in their own tongue) ; but I find no reference whatever to the bringing up of children. They could not have been so absurd as to omit all training for this gravest of responsibilities. Evidently...
Page 533 - Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth; even these of them ye may eat ; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
Page 340 - IT is done ! Clang of bell and roar of gun Send the tidings up and down. How the belfries rock and reel ! How the great guns, peal on peal, Fling the joy from town to town • Ring, O bells ! Every stroke exulting tells Of the burial hour of crime.
Page 668 - States shall have the same right in every state and territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses and exactions of every kind, and none other, any law, statute, ordinance, regulation or custom to the contrary notwithstanding...
Page 353 - Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race...
Page 668 - all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses, and exactions of every kind, and to no other.
Page 194 - Now that moral injunctions are losing the authority given by their supposed sacred origin, the secularization of morals is becoming imperative. Few things can happen more disastrous than the decay and death of a regulative system no longer fit, before another and fitter regulative system has grown up to replace it.
Page 411 - If by some strange chance not a vestige of us descended to the remote future save a pile of our schoolbooks or some college examination papers, we may imagine how puzzled an antiquary of the period would be on finding in them no indication that the learners were ever likely to be parents. "This must have been the curriculum for their celibates,
Page 739 - Not where he eats, but where he is eaten : a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet : we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots : your fat king, and your lean beggar, is but variable service ; two dishes, but to one table : that's the end.