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... seen soon to augment rapidly , and then to become extravagant . We thus gain a vivid insight through this piece of mechanism into the enormous increase of stimulus , when it is already large , that is required to produce a fresh ...
... seen soon to augment rapidly , and then to become extravagant . We thus gain a vivid insight through this piece of mechanism into the enormous increase of stimulus , when it is already large , that is required to produce a fresh ...
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... seen that a much smaller number suffices to suggest it . The cyclostyle , which is an instrument used for multiple writing , makes about 140 dots to the inch . The style has a minute spur- wheel or roller , instead of a point ; the ...
... seen that a much smaller number suffices to suggest it . The cyclostyle , which is an instrument used for multiple writing , makes about 140 dots to the inch . The style has a minute spur- wheel or roller , instead of a point ; the ...
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... seen , without obliterating it . The repro- duction has been photographically reduced to various different sizes . That which contains only fifty dots to the inch , which is consequently six times as coarse as the theoretical 300 to an ...
... seen , without obliterating it . The repro- duction has been photographically reduced to various different sizes . That which contains only fifty dots to the inch , which is consequently six times as coarse as the theoretical 300 to an ...
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... seen in its original blue colour . Even as early as the twelfth dynasty the green frits used were dull in colour , and if by chance a brighter green was required , then they used the mineral malachite . No doubt by far the most ...
... seen in its original blue colour . Even as early as the twelfth dynasty the green frits used were dull in colour , and if by chance a brighter green was required , then they used the mineral malachite . No doubt by far the most ...
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... seen , consequently it became a point of considerable interest to ascertain whether from a specimen of this pigment , some thousands of years old , these absorption bands could be obtained . A small sample of this pink pigment was taken ...
... seen , consequently it became a point of considerable interest to ascertain whether from a specimen of this pigment , some thousands of years old , these absorption bands could be obtained . A small sample of this pink pigment was taken ...
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Page 419 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor ; suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance: that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature ; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Page 188 - But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on...
Page 580 - REQUIEM UNDER the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
Page 574 - There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.
Page 188 - For us the winds do blow, The earth doth rest, heaven move, and fountains flow. Nothing we see but means our good, As our delight, or as our treasure. The whole is either our cupboard of food Or cabinet of pleasure.
Page 12 - I was often unable to think of external things as having external existence, and I communed with all that I saw as something not apart from, but inherent in, my own immaterial nature. Many times while going to school have I grasped at a wall or tree to recall myself from this abyss of idealism to the reality.
Page 584 - And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field: upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life...
Page 168 - I have caused divers of them to be translated unto me, that I might understand them, and surely they savoured of sweet wit and good invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry ; yet were they sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural device, which gave good grace and comeliness unto them...
Page 582 - As a matter of fact, although few things are spoken of with more fearful whisperings than this prospect of death, few have less influence on conduct under healthy circumstances. We have all heard...
Page 578 - Whereas my birth and spirit rather took The way that takes the town; Thou didst betray me to a ling'ring book, And wrap me in a gown.