Humboldt Library of Popular Science Literature, Volume 2, Issues 37-48Humboldt Publishing Company, 1879 |
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... original researches which had pre- viously been the pursuit and pleasure of my life . These books were , for the most part , re- published by the Messrs . Appleton , under * Among whom may be mentioned , specially , the late Sir Edmund ...
... original researches which had pre- viously been the pursuit and pleasure of my life . These books were , for the most part , re- published by the Messrs . Appleton , under * Among whom may be mentioned , specially , the late Sir Edmund ...
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... original discoverer . Thus informed and disciplined , he was pre- pared to detect any resemblance which might reveal itself between the phenomena of light and those of wave - motion . Such resem- blances he did detect ; and , spurred on ...
... original discoverer . Thus informed and disciplined , he was pre- pared to detect any resemblance which might reveal itself between the phenomena of light and those of wave - motion . Such resem- blances he did detect ; and , spurred on ...
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... original tock of principles it educes the counterparts of all that observation shows . It accounts or , explains , simplifies the most entangled bases ; corrects known laws and facts ; pre- licts and discloses unknown ones ; becomes he ...
... original tock of principles it educes the counterparts of all that observation shows . It accounts or , explains , simplifies the most entangled bases ; corrects known laws and facts ; pre- licts and discloses unknown ones ; becomes he ...
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... original workers who , though not widely known beyond scientific circles , really constitute the core of science , has demonstrated this change of one kind of light into another , and has pushed his experiments so far as to render the ...
... original workers who , though not widely known beyond scientific circles , really constitute the core of science , has demonstrated this change of one kind of light into another , and has pushed his experiments so far as to render the ...
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... original discoverer , industrial America and industrial England would , I fear , be very much in the condition of that plastic dough . At the present time there is a cry in Eng- land for technical education , and it is the ex- pression ...
... original discoverer , industrial America and industrial England would , I fear , be very much in the condition of that plastic dough . At the present time there is a cry in Eng- land for technical education , and it is the ex- pression ...
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Page 171 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Page 501 - And Nature, the old nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying: "Here is a story-book Thy Father has written for thee." " Come, wander with me," she said, " Into regions yet untrod ; And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God.
Page 475 - If a lady or gentleman be introduced to her in the old state, and vice versa (and so of all other matters), to know them satisfactorily she must learn them in both states. In the old state, she possesses fine powers of penmanship ; while in the new she writes a poor awkward hand, having not had time or means to become expert.
Page 244 - I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now to mock your own grinning? quite chapfallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favor she must come; make her laugh at that.
Page 283 - For when the people are made miserable, and find themselves exposed to the ill usage of arbitrary power, cry up their governors as much as you will for sons of Jupiter, let them be sacred and divine, descended or authorized from Heaven; give them out for whom or what you please, the same will happen.
Page 278 - ... it is no wonder if there be somewhat else required besides covenant to make their agreement constant and lasting; which is a common power, to keep them in awe, and to direct their actions to the common benefit.
Page 321 - Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the boundaries of most of the lava streams still distinct, we are led to believe that within a period, geologically recent, the unbroken ocean was here spread out. Hence, both in space and time, we seem to be brought somewhat near to that great fact — that mystery of mysteries — the first appearance of new beings on this earth.
Page 329 - The principle of Antithesis. — Certain states of the mind lead to certain habitual actions, which are of service, as under our first principle. Now, when a directly opposite state of mind is induced, there is a strong and involuntary tendency to the performance of movements of a directly opposite nature, though these are of no use; and such movements are in some cases highly expressive.
Page 501 - Thy Father has written for thee." " Come, wander with me," she said, " Into regions yet untrod ; And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God." And he wandered away and away With Nature, the dear old nurse, Who sang to him night and day The rhymes of the universe. And whenever the way seemed long, Or his heart began to fail, She would sing a more wonderful song, Or tell a more marvellous tale.
Page 519 - We have in the Veda the invocation Dyaus pitar, the Greek Zeu itaxip, the Latin Jupiter, and that means in all the three languages what it meant before these three languages were torn asunder — it means Heaven-Father ! These two words are not mere words; they are, to my mind, the oldest poem, the oldest prayer of mankind, or at least of that pure branch of it to which we belong...