The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Том 2A. and C. Black, 1827 |
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... kind of existence , and thus to create a sort of institution , the utility of which was so striking , that it was promptly sanctioned by general opinion . The choice which the Royal Society made of him , some years after , for its ...
... kind of existence , and thus to create a sort of institution , the utility of which was so striking , that it was promptly sanctioned by general opinion . The choice which the Royal Society made of him , some years after , for its ...
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... kind of manufac- ture : and if , as no reasonable person can doubt , such successes result from their personal energy and the general spirit of their nation , much more than from the influence of an individual , in whatever situation he ...
... kind of manufac- ture : and if , as no reasonable person can doubt , such successes result from their personal energy and the general spirit of their nation , much more than from the influence of an individual , in whatever situation he ...
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... kind in the Memoir of MM . Dulong and Petit on Large flasks and receivers , if thin , must have their capacities somewhat altered , by varying the pressure . This alteration in similar shaped vessels , will be , cæteris paribus , nearly ...
... kind in the Memoir of MM . Dulong and Petit on Large flasks and receivers , if thin , must have their capacities somewhat altered , by varying the pressure . This alteration in similar shaped vessels , will be , cæteris paribus , nearly ...
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... kind of tree . It might thrive extremely well in the interior of Norway , where the summer is warm and dry ; and equally upon heaths in Austria and Poland . But no one has hitherto been success- ful in rearing it in Europe ; and every ...
... kind of tree . It might thrive extremely well in the interior of Norway , where the summer is warm and dry ; and equally upon heaths in Austria and Poland . But no one has hitherto been success- ful in rearing it in Europe ; and every ...
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... kind of milk is made use of in the whole of Teneriffe . It is also probably much superior to what cow's milk would be here ; hence the reason why there is not perhaps a single cow to be found on the whole island . The fresh cheese made ...
... kind of milk is made use of in the whole of Teneriffe . It is also probably much superior to what cow's milk would be here ; hence the reason why there is not perhaps a single cow to be found on the whole island . The fresh cheese made ...
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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.