Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the Royal Institution, with Abstracts of the Discourses, Volume 14W. Nicol, Printer to the Royal Institution, 1896 - Science |
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... hand , cannot be measured by external standards , so we are driven to use internal ones , and to adopt a scale of sensation formed by units of just - perceptible differences , rising in the arithmetical order of 1 , 2 , 3 , & c . , and ...
... hand , cannot be measured by external standards , so we are driven to use internal ones , and to adopt a scale of sensation formed by units of just - perceptible differences , rising in the arithmetical order of 1 , 2 , 3 , & c . , and ...
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... hand . This portion of the machine is carefully balanced , so that it will remain steady in any position in which it is set , while a small force is sufficient to cause it to turn ; behind all is a card with equal graduations upon it ...
... hand . This portion of the machine is carefully balanced , so that it will remain steady in any position in which it is set , while a small force is sufficient to cause it to turn ; behind all is a card with equal graduations upon it ...
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... hand science tells us that the section of the conductor can be diminished as the pressure of electricity is increased , and it appears to be only necessary to construct apparatus for generating electricity at a sufficiently high ...
... hand science tells us that the section of the conductor can be diminished as the pressure of electricity is increased , and it appears to be only necessary to construct apparatus for generating electricity at a sufficiently high ...
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... hands , not so the presence of copper . It was suggested that it was derived from the Bunsen burner used in the incineration , or from some preservative solution applied to the bird - skins . And it was asked " How did the copper get ...
... hands , not so the presence of copper . It was suggested that it was derived from the Bunsen burner used in the incineration , or from some preservative solution applied to the bird - skins . And it was asked " How did the copper get ...
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... hand , I do not sympathise with the doubts as to its nature which F. Heim has recently formulated in the Comptes Rendus . It is noteworthy , in connection with the periodic law , that all the essential elements of animal and vegetable ...
... hand , I do not sympathise with the doubts as to its nature which F. Heim has recently formulated in the Comptes Rendus . It is noteworthy , in connection with the periodic law , that all the essential elements of animal and vegetable ...
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Page 417 - 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 417 - By your beauty, which confesses Some chief Beauty conquering you — By our grand heroic guesses Through your falsehood at the True, — We will weep not ! earth shall roll Heir to each god's aureole — And Pan is dead. Earth outgrows the mythic fancies Sung beside her in her youth, And those debonair romances Sound but dull beside the truth. Phoebus' chariot-course is run : Look up, poets, to the sun ! Pan, Pan is dead.
Page 16 - 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 574 - 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 570 - 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 194 - 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 568 - 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.
Page 175 - Welsh] to which I am accustomed, is " not slow and harsh, but lively and rapid, while the melody
Page 583 - Most men, finding themselves the authors of their own disgrace, rail the louder against God or destiny. Most men, when they repent, oblige their friends to share the bitterness of that repentance. But he had held an inquest and passed sentence : mene, mene ; and condemned himself to smiling silence.
Page 572 - 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...