The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Band 152A. Constable, 1880 |
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... given over in the middle . ' * 6 The matter of such a history , he says further , is no less than the world ; for there is no body or operation in the universe ' that is not some way or other to be taken notice of in this ' great work ...
... given over in the middle . ' * 6 The matter of such a history , he says further , is no less than the world ; for there is no body or operation in the universe ' that is not some way or other to be taken notice of in this ' great work ...
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... given length ; as well as the determination ( so far as the actual state of chemical knowledge permitted it to be determined ) of the true function of the air in combustion and respiration . His zeal carried him to the length of making ...
... given length ; as well as the determination ( so far as the actual state of chemical knowledge permitted it to be determined ) of the true function of the air in combustion and respiration . His zeal carried him to the length of making ...
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... given thus . 6 One January day in 1684 , Edmund Halley , a young and rising astronomer , having independently worked out the great problem so far as to perceive the necessity for the ratio of inverse squares , came to town from ...
... given thus . 6 One January day in 1684 , Edmund Halley , a young and rising astronomer , having independently worked out the great problem so far as to perceive the necessity for the ratio of inverse squares , came to town from ...
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... given as authorities consulted upon this important as well as interesting department of scientific research . Dr. Lauder Lindsay has at any rate chosen a field of investigation which needs no extraneous argument to commend it to the ...
... given as authorities consulted upon this important as well as interesting department of scientific research . Dr. Lauder Lindsay has at any rate chosen a field of investigation which needs no extraneous argument to commend it to the ...
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... given in the usual tabulated form , it is stated that the understanding of man's language is made to include the interpretation of facial expression , and the reading of human character and mood . This power the dog certainly possesses ...
... given in the usual tabulated form , it is stated that the understanding of man's language is made to include the interpretation of facial expression , and the reading of human character and mood . This power the dog certainly possesses ...
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Seite 116 - And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Seite 118 - The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them; and the Sabeans fell upon them and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Seite 18 - Change, and there my Lord and most of the company to a club supper ; Sir P. Neale. Sir B. Murray, Dr. Clerke, Dr. Whistler, Dr. Goddard, and others of the most eminent worth. Above all Mr. Boyle was at the meeting, and above him, Mr. Hooke. who is the most, and promises the least, of any man in the world that ever I saw.
Seite 242 - FAREWELL [MAY 1669] every time that I take a pen in my hand; and therefore whatever comes of it I must forbear: and therefore resolve from this time forward to have it kept by my people in long-hand, and must...
Seite 238 - Sacrament, which troubled me, but I took no notice of it, but she went on from one thing to another till at last it appeared plainly her trouble was at what she saw, but yet I did not know how much she saw, and therefore said nothing to her.
Seite 562 - February, 1769, was ordered to be expunged from the journals as " subversive of the rights of the whole body of electors of this kingdom.
Seite 114 - I am sure, if I had a severe illness, I should give up at once, I should not struggle for life. I have no tenacity of life.
Seite 116 - He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again...
Seite 248 - And so home to our own church, it being the common Fast-day, and it was just before sermon ; but, Lord ! how all the people in the church stared upon me to see me whisper to Sir John Minnes and my Lady Pen. Anon I saw people stirring and whispering below, and by and by comes up the sexton from my Lady Ford to tell me the news, which I had brought, being now sent into the church by Sir W. Batten in writing, and passed from pew to pew.
Seite 31 - That all bodies whatsoever that are put into a direct and simple motion, will so continue to move forward in a straight line, till they are by some other effectual powers deflected and bent into a Motion, describing a Circle, Ellipsis, or some other more compounded Curve Line.