 ... the hidden something, which he shall try in vain to arrest, but which, like a spirit, escapes him? If we ask what fire is,. of the men of science, they are at fault. They will tell us that it is a phenomenon, that their vocabularies can give no further...  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 2631862Full view - About this book
 | Golden rules - 1835 - 44 lehte
...— utility and economy ; and both, it is trusted, have been preserved. With respect to her cargo, all that can be said of it is, that it is a general one ; but freighted as she is with the productions — aye, and characters too of some hundred... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1862 - 604 lehte
...the uninitiated in such matters, is a term which has been subjected to much criticism. Captain Huish, the manager of the London and North- Western, called...on the increase, whatever may be done in mechanical improvements respecting them. The present imperfect condition of railway conveyance is also a cause... | |
 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention - 1868 - 1082 lehte
...there is a power in that country that will check it. Much as England may boast of ¡U institutions, all that can be said of it is. that it is a government of blended sovereignty; it is not an absolute monarchy, nor is it a pure republic like ours.... | |
 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention - 1868 - 1044 lehte
...there is a power in that country that will check it. Much as England may boast of its institution/, all that can be said of it is. that it is a government of blended sovereignty; it is not an absolute monarchy, nor is it a pure republic like ours.... | |
 | Hargrave Jennings - 1870 - 396 lehte
...phenomenon, that their vocabularies can give no further account of it. They will explain to us that all that can be said of it is, that it is a last affection of matter, to the results of which (in the world of man) they can only testify, but... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - 1874 - 412 lehte
...not be binding either on Pickford and Company or on the consigner. It is no proof of contract at all. All that can be said of it is, that it is a document from which a contract not proved may be inferred. Now, is not the best proof of a transaction... | |
 | Ralph Neville - 1874 - 910 lehte
...not be binding either on Pickford and Company or on the consigner. It is no proof of contract at all. All that can be said of it is, that it is a document from which a contract not proved may be inferred. A'ow, is not the best proof of a transaction... | |
 | Hargrave Jennings - 1879 - 442 lehte
...phenomenon, that their vocabularies can give no further account of it. They will explain to us that all that can be said of it is, that it is a last affection of matter, to the results of which (in the world of man) they can only testify, but... | |
 | 1889 - 1240 lehte
...scale. There is no known boundary or monument given as a base line or starting point of the survey. All that can be said of it is that it is a mere plat upon paper, and in no sense a compliance with the statute, and was not such a map or plat... | |
 | 1890 - 590 lehte
...no record whatever of it. No idea as to who the sculptor was, has ever been held by any authority. All that can be said of it is, that it is a piece of Greek work, of a period much later than Praxiteles. The statue ranks third amongst those of... | |
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