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... less clearly can we trace this principle of restlessness and vigour in connexion with man's immortal spirit . The short span of time allotted him , stranger and sojourner as he is , is occupied in varied and multitudinous pursuits ; he ...
... less clearly can we trace this principle of restlessness and vigour in connexion with man's immortal spirit . The short span of time allotted him , stranger and sojourner as he is , is occupied in varied and multitudinous pursuits ; he ...
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... & c . Compressibility . All matter is more or less compressible . Gases are far more capable of compression than solids or liquids . By ham- mering , most metals are rendered dense , and their 38 NATURAL PHILOSOPHY .
... & c . Compressibility . All matter is more or less compressible . Gases are far more capable of compression than solids or liquids . By ham- mering , most metals are rendered dense , and their 38 NATURAL PHILOSOPHY .
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... less and less ; for they are found to refer almost entirely to very little matters , many of which could not be made apparent in a translation , and , of the rest , very few produce any altera- tion in the meaning of a sentence , still less ...
... less and less ; for they are found to refer almost entirely to very little matters , many of which could not be made apparent in a translation , and , of the rest , very few produce any altera- tion in the meaning of a sentence , still less ...
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... it will be perceived that a light body may travel with an equal velocity to a bulky one , and yet the momentum be considerably less . The following axioms or fundamental laws strictly deducible from the 68 NATURAL PHILOSOPHY .
... it will be perceived that a light body may travel with an equal velocity to a bulky one , and yet the momentum be considerably less . The following axioms or fundamental laws strictly deducible from the 68 NATURAL PHILOSOPHY .
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... less carbonized substance , as oil ; and such we find in practice to be the case : the consequence is , that though the flame is bright , it is very small ; in the best camphine lamps never being more than three - quarters of an inch in ...
... less carbonized substance , as oil ; and such we find in practice to be the case : the consequence is , that though the flame is bright , it is very small ; in the best camphine lamps never being more than three - quarters of an inch in ...
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Page 141 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
Page 100 - Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates...
Page 300 - Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me; and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Page 200 - And broader still became the blaze, and louder still the din, As fast from every village round the horse came spurring in. And eastward straight from wild Blackheath the warlike errand went, And roused in many an ancient hall the gallant squires of Kent. Southward from Surrey's pleasant hills flew those bright couriers forth ; High on bleak Hampstead's swarthy moor they started for the North ; And on, and on, without a pause, untired they bounded still ; All night from tower to tower they sprang,...
Page 100 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
Page 27 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Page 120 - The sense of space, and in the end, the sense "> of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c. were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity.
Page 120 - Under the connecting feeling of tropical heat and vertical sunlights, I brought together all creatures, birds, beasts, reptiles, all trees and plants, usages and appearances, that are found in all tropical regions, and assembled them together in China or Indostan.
Page 300 - No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls; for the price of wisdom is above rubies. The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
Page 100 - Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.