The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Том 2A. and C. Black, 1827 |
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... considered it advisable , for his peace , to give in his resignation . It was in his place that Mr Banks was chosen in the month of November 1778. On what side he had placed himself in the war of electrical points and knobs , we do not ...
... considered it advisable , for his peace , to give in his resignation . It was in his place that Mr Banks was chosen in the month of November 1778. On what side he had placed himself in the war of electrical points and knobs , we do not ...
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... considered himself , as it were , accountable for all the injuries that his countrymen might do to science and its cultivators ; and still more , he thought himself obliged to repair the evil that other nations might cause them . Having ...
... considered himself , as it were , accountable for all the injuries that his countrymen might do to science and its cultivators ; and still more , he thought himself obliged to repair the evil that other nations might cause them . Having ...
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... considered as one ; but this is not the first case where a careful analysis has obliged us to admit several agents in an effect single in appearance . Without doubt , in the number of the very varied experiments which may be made on the ...
... considered as one ; but this is not the first case where a careful analysis has obliged us to admit several agents in an effect single in appearance . Without doubt , in the number of the very varied experiments which may be made on the ...
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... considered as spurious , is placed directly in the centre of the 3 lateral ones . In a decandrous species of this genus from Mexico , each of the filaments is trichotomous , and each * In the Prodromus Flora Nepalensis , I have very ...
... considered as spurious , is placed directly in the centre of the 3 lateral ones . In a decandrous species of this genus from Mexico , each of the filaments is trichotomous , and each * In the Prodromus Flora Nepalensis , I have very ...
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... considered as little wor- thy of regard from their homeliness of aspect , their diminutive size , and the simplicity of their composition ; but when the pier- cing eye of genius determined their relations in the natural order of things ...
... considered as little wor- thy of regard from their homeliness of aspect , their diminutive size , and the simplicity of their composition ; but when the pier- cing eye of genius determined their relations in the natural order of things ...
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Страница 308 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: which indeed is the least of all seeds : but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Страница 271 - ... found, wherever there is a sufficient quantity of water to hide them, or to furnish them with food ; and they continue thus, in great numbers, as high as the mouth of the Arkansas River, extending east to North Carolina, and as far west as I have penetrated. On the Red River, before it was navigated by steam-vessels, they were so extremely abundant, that to see hundreds at a time along in.
Страница 375 - ... he was a full head taller than any man on board, measuring seven feet in what might be called his ordinary standing posture, and eight feet when suspended for the purpose of being skinned.
Страница 372 - His motion on the ground was plainly not his natural mode of progression, for even when assisted by his hands or a stick, it was slow and vacillating : it was necessary to see him amongst trees in order to estimate his agility and strength.
Страница 373 - When nearly in a dying state he seized a spear made of a supple wood, which would have withstood the strength of the stoutest man, and...
Страница 192 - ... author, that, in using his astronomical telescope, he has often seen what are called falling stars, shooting through the field of view, when they were not visible to the naked eye ; and when it is considered that the glass only embraced...
Страница 119 - Ice, or glaciers, by their immense expanding powers, must beyond doubt have produced this change in their original form, from this circumstance, that they were continually sliding downwards from the higher mountains to the lower districts and, by this progressive motion, carried with them the masses of stone which they had torn from the mountains.
Страница 105 - Bay, and by the fossil wood of Melville Island, Cape York, and Byam Martin Island. 6. That the boulders or rolled blocks met with in different quarters, and in tracts distant from their original localities, afford evidence of the passage of water across them, and at a period subsequent to the deposition of the newest solid strata, namely, those of the tertiary class. 7. That nowhere are there...
Страница 403 - It is easy to conceive what would be the appearance of the valleys and plains covered with these plants, from that presented by modern tracts, where the common ferns so generally prevail. But the loftier vegetables were so entirely distinct from any that are now known to exist in European countries, that we seek in vain for any thing at all analogous without the tropics. The forests of Clathrariae and Endogenitae, (the plants of which, like some of the recent arborescent ferns, probably attained...
Страница 307 - Adjeloun we met with the mustard plant growing wild, as high as our horses' heads, still, being an annual, it did not deserve the appellation of a tree ; whereas the other really is such, and birds might easily, and actually do, take shelter under its shadow.