Proceedings of the Literary & Philosophical Society of Liverpool, Issue 15Deighton and Laughton, 1861 |
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... thermometers . An inch of vertical space is here equivalent to 20 ° Fahr . , and one - tenth of an inch of horizontal space to twenty - four hours . The Admiralty Register of Shipwrecks on the coasts of the * See Plate I. 30 m 29 tn 3 ...
... thermometers . An inch of vertical space is here equivalent to 20 ° Fahr . , and one - tenth of an inch of horizontal space to twenty - four hours . The Admiralty Register of Shipwrecks on the coasts of the * See Plate I. 30 m 29 tn 3 ...
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... thermometer to fall 20 ° in less than as many minutes , when a shift of wind has occurred in the Atlantic . Is it reasonable to suppose that the cool current entered was the same as the one quitted , and that it had changed its ...
... thermometer to fall 20 ° in less than as many minutes , when a shift of wind has occurred in the Atlantic . Is it reasonable to suppose that the cool current entered was the same as the one quitted , and that it had changed its ...
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... thermometer causes a dearth in the means at our disposal for the investigation of this subject ; we know , however , that the mean heat of the globe has not altered during the last 2,000 years , as the length of the day has not ...
... thermometer causes a dearth in the means at our disposal for the investigation of this subject ; we know , however , that the mean heat of the globe has not altered during the last 2,000 years , as the length of the day has not ...
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... temperature being 53 ° 30 u F. , the mean tem- perature of the air being 51 ° 48 F. At aer depth of about 25 feet the influence of the seasons scarcely artffects the oscillations of the thermometer to the extent of half a degree 144.
... temperature being 53 ° 30 u F. , the mean tem- perature of the air being 51 ° 48 F. At aer depth of about 25 feet the influence of the seasons scarcely artffects the oscillations of the thermometer to the extent of half a degree 144.
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... thermometer , vertically , 2 feet 2 inches in the soil . I found the ground frozen from 6 inches below the surface ... thermometer became covered with snow , increasing in thickness till it was 84 inches deep ; L the thermometer was ...
... thermometer , vertically , 2 feet 2 inches in the soil . I found the ground frozen from 6 inches below the surface ... thermometer became covered with snow , increasing in thickness till it was 84 inches deep ; L the thermometer was ...
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Page 128 - Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind ; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind...
Page 128 - So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
Page 129 - Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn; happier than this, She is not bred so dull but she can learn; Happiest of all is that her gentle spirit Commits itself to yours to be directed, As from her lord, her governor, her king.
Page 131 - To kiss her burial. Should I go to church And see the holy edifice of stone, And not bethink me straight of dangerous rocks, Which touching but my gentle vessel's side, Would scatter all her spices on the stream, Enrobe the roaring waters with my silks, And, in a word, but even now worth this, And now worth nothing...
Page 90 - Under changed conditions of life, it is at least possible that slight modifications of instinct might be profitable to a species; and if it can be shown that instincts do vary ever so little, then I can see no difficulty in natural selection preserving and continually accumulating variations of instinct to any extent that was profitable. It is thus, as I believe, that all the most complex and wonderful instincts have originated.
Page 88 - I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype.
Page 88 - Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth, have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.
Page 164 - The God who created the heavens, the earth, the angels, the stars, the sun, the moon, the fire, the water, or all the four elements, and all things of the two worlds ; that God we believe in — Him we worship, Him we invoke, and Him we adore.
Page 127 - Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished! Reply, reply. It is engendered in the eyes. With gazing fed ; and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies. Let us all ring fancy's knell : I'll begin it, — Ding, dong, bell.
Page 85 - has taken the ground that all the natural divisions in the animal kingdom are primarily distinct, founded upon different categories of characters, and that all exist in the same way, that is, as categories of thought, embodied in individual living forms. I have attempted to show that branches in the animal kingdom are founded upon different plans of structure, and for that very reason have embraced from the beginning representatives between which there...