Things Not Generally Known: Familiarly Explained. A Book for Old and YoungLockwood & Company, 1867 - 247 Seiten |
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... cause of exciting its inhabitants to sin ; for which they were all drowned , except the fishes , which , having been fortunately exempt from the heat , remained innocent . " " The earth , " says Leibnitz ( Protogea ) , " is an ...
... cause of exciting its inhabitants to sin ; for which they were all drowned , except the fishes , which , having been fortunately exempt from the heat , remained innocent . " " The earth , " says Leibnitz ( Protogea ) , " is an ...
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... causes , and those which operated during former conditions of the globe . Aristotle's geological theory , viz . that the causes which produce geological phenomena are in constant and gradual operation , appears to be the most consonant ...
... causes , and those which operated during former conditions of the globe . Aristotle's geological theory , viz . that the causes which produce geological phenomena are in constant and gradual operation , appears to be the most consonant ...
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... caused the pendulum to strike against the back and front of the clock - case , and thus to leave a mark indicative of the phenomenon , though not of its amount . Mr. Babbage has observed , that the degree to which the shock of an ...
... caused the pendulum to strike against the back and front of the clock - case , and thus to leave a mark indicative of the phenomenon , though not of its amount . Mr. Babbage has observed , that the degree to which the shock of an ...
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... cause without any such disturbance on the surface of the earth as might affect aught that is visible cither in its islands or continents . The stopping of the fountains of the deep would restrain the further increase of the flood from ...
... cause without any such disturbance on the surface of the earth as might affect aught that is visible cither in its islands or continents . The stopping of the fountains of the deep would restrain the further increase of the flood from ...
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... CAUSE OF THE DIRECTION OF MINERAL VEINS . Copper lodes have generally an easterly and westerly direc- tion . Lead lodes commonly run from north to south , or nearly so . If , after a lode has been formed , it becomes dislocated , and ...
... CAUSE OF THE DIRECTION OF MINERAL VEINS . Copper lodes have generally an easterly and westerly direc- tion . Lead lodes commonly run from north to south , or nearly so . If , after a lode has been formed , it becomes dislocated , and ...
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Seite 122 - Provided that nothing in this section contained shall extend to any second marriage contracted elsewhere than in England and Ireland by any other than a subject of Her Majesty, or to any person marrying a second time whose husband or wife shall have been continually absent from such person for the space of seven years then last past, and shall not have been known by such person to be living within that time...
Seite 3 - A PRIMER OF THE ART OF ILLUMINATION. For the Use of Beginners ; with a Rudimentary Treatise on the Art, Practical Directions for its Exercise, and Examples taken from Illuminated MSS., printed in Gold and Colours.
Seite 58 - The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years : | yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Seite 76 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Seite 194 - His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Seite 34 - A. rainbow can only occur when the clouds containing or depositing the rain are opposite the sun, — and in the evening the rainbow is in the east, and in the morning in the west ; and as our heavy rains, in this climate, are usually brought by the westerly wind, a rainbow in the west indicates that the bad weather is on the road, by the wind, to us; whereas the rainbow in the east proves that the rain in those clouds is passing from us.
Seite 160 - When rosemary, and bays, the poet's crown, Are bawl'd, in frequent cries, through all the town, Then judge the festival of Christmas near, Christmas, the joyous period of the year. Now with bright holly all your temples strow, With laurel green, and sacred misletoe.
Seite 2 - The Philosophy of William Shakespeare ; delineating, in Seven Hundred and Fifty Passages selected from his Plays, the Multiform Phases of the Human Mind. With Index and References. Collated, Elucidated, and Alphabetically arranged, by the Editors of 'Truths Illustrated by Great Authors.
Seite 189 - ... and, when that diligent bird has at length taken a fish, and is bearing it to his nest for the support of his mate and young ones, the bald eagle pursues him, and takes it from him. With all this injustice he is never in good case ; but, like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy.
Seite 101 - A custome lothsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse.