The Practical Teacher; with which is Incorporated the Practical Teacher's Art Monthly, Volume 2Joseph Hughes T. Nelson, 1883 - Education |
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... present paper , alone be described , we shall still consider the insects as being divided into two great sections . The butterflies are divided into five families , which are distinguished chiefly by the veining of the wings , the form ...
... present paper , alone be described , we shall still consider the insects as being divided into two great sections . The butterflies are divided into five families , which are distinguished chiefly by the veining of the wings , the form ...
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... present position , and removes them to a totally different group . The greater number of these clearwing - moths bear so close a resemblance to bees , wasps , gnats , etc. , as The development of this insect extends over a considerable ...
... present position , and removes them to a totally different group . The greater number of these clearwing - moths bear so close a resemblance to bees , wasps , gnats , etc. , as The development of this insect extends over a considerable ...
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... present value of a debt of £ 572 due eight months hence at 3.75 per cent . simple interest ? 99 99 Int . of £ 100 for 8 mo . at 3.75 p.c. per ann . = £ 3'75 × = £ 2.5 Amount = £ 102 5 : . £ 102.5 : £ 100 : £ 572 : exact pres , val . 572 ...
... present value of a debt of £ 572 due eight months hence at 3.75 per cent . simple interest ? 99 99 Int . of £ 100 for 8 mo . at 3.75 p.c. per ann . = £ 3'75 × = £ 2.5 Amount = £ 102 5 : . £ 102.5 : £ 100 : £ 572 : exact pres , val . 572 ...
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... present , and , if so , in what form . January , 1874 . A steel watch - spring , having a bit of lighted amadou ( German tinder ) fixed to its extremity , when introduced into a vessel of oxygen gas exhibits a most beautiful phenomenon ...
... present , and , if so , in what form . January , 1874 . A steel watch - spring , having a bit of lighted amadou ( German tinder ) fixed to its extremity , when introduced into a vessel of oxygen gas exhibits a most beautiful phenomenon ...
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... present at our disposal , has been proved to be false by two famous Swiss chemists , only a short time ago . That oxygen is a supporter of combustion is easily proved from the following facts . If a glowing wood- splint be plunged into ...
... present at our disposal , has been proved to be false by two famous Swiss chemists , only a short time ago . That oxygen is a supporter of combustion is easily proved from the following facts . If a glowing wood- splint be plunged into ...
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Page 184 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
Page 396 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 29 - Oh, from out the sounding cells What a gush of euphony voluminously wells ! How it swells ! How it dwells On the Future ! how it tells Of the rapture that impels To the swinging and the ringing Of the bells, bells, bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells— To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells...
Page 241 - Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Page 399 - Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad.' ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in, stones, and good in every thing.
Page 52 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home ; Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad; Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds ; Which pillage they with merry march bring...
Page 29 - Golden bells ! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells! Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight ! From the molten-golden notes, And all in tune, What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats On the moon!
Page 502 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go, On the light fantastic toe ; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Page 500 - And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landscape round it measures...
Page 282 - Then, when the dusk of evening had come on, and not a sound disturbed the sacred stillness of the place — when the bright moon poured in her light on tomb and monument, on pillar, wall, and arch, and most of all (it seemed to them) upon her quiet grave...