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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... period , in order to perform that which could not otherwise be performed at all , at the cheap price of a subsequent period of fatigue . Measure of the Imagination . The first perceptible sensation is seldom due to a solitary stimulus ...
... period , in order to perform that which could not otherwise be performed at all , at the cheap price of a subsequent period of fatigue . Measure of the Imagination . The first perceptible sensation is seldom due to a solitary stimulus ...
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... period of comparative quiet a number of the most eminent scientific philosophers devoted their time to discover the characteristic features of this great power in nature , and the laws which it obeys . The consequence has been that at ...
... period of comparative quiet a number of the most eminent scientific philosophers devoted their time to discover the characteristic features of this great power in nature , and the laws which it obeys . The consequence has been that at ...
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... an Essay showing how the work of this Institution has during the pre- ceding period of seven years furthered the objects of the Trust . " The PRESENTS received since the last Meeting were laid on 40 [ Feb. 6 , General Monthly Meeting .
... an Essay showing how the work of this Institution has during the pre- ceding period of seven years furthered the objects of the Trust . " The PRESENTS received since the last Meeting were laid on 40 [ Feb. 6 , General Monthly Meeting .
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... period of the Exhibition . Yet few of those who saw in this experiment the possibilities of a great future for a new mode of traction would have ventured to predict that within ten years ' time , in the United States alone , over 5000 ...
... period of the Exhibition . Yet few of those who saw in this experiment the possibilities of a great future for a new mode of traction would have ventured to predict that within ten years ' time , in the United States alone , over 5000 ...
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... period . We are apt to forget that there are bad as well as able artists in all periods , and that the work of a really good man in a bad period is perhaps more valuable than a poor thing that chances to belong to the best period of ...
... period . We are apt to forget that there are bad as well as able artists in all periods , and that the work of a really good man in a bad period is perhaps more valuable than a poor thing that chances to belong to the best period of ...
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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...