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Page 584 - Pass, pass who will, yon chantry door; And through the chink in the fractured floor Look down, and see a griesly sight; A vault where the bodies are buried upright ! There face by face, and hand by hand, The Claphams and Mauleverers stand...
Page 433 - ... proud, both of the material triumphs and of the intellectual gains which it has brought us, and we are full of even larger hopes of it in the future. At what time did this bright child of the nineteenth century have its birth? He who listened to the small group of philosophers of Dover, who in 1799 might have discoursed of natural knowledge, would perhaps have heard much of electric machines, of electric sparks, of the electric fluid, and even of positive and negative electricity; for frictional...
Page 222 - ... up to 1854:— This gives an average of 10'9 for each of the twelve quinquennial periods, or nearly two per annum; more are recorded for the first moiety of the sixty years than for the second, though one might have expected rather a marked increase during the second period, owing to the increase which has taken place during the last quarter of a century in population and intelligence, as well as facilities for procuring and disseminating information. Indeed, as but one fall is recorded for each...
Page 423 - ... large city, soon loses its original color, becoming gray and dingy from the smoke and dirt that fills the air. If the limestone is bituminous and contains a small amount of oil, it will be certain to collect all the dust and smoke which chances to fall upon it. In the suburban and residence parts of a city and in the rural districts, where both smoke and dust have little effect, the original color will not suffer so much from external causes alone. In the business section of our large cities,...
Page 529 - VIII., is an example of that material, in excellent condition; a few decomposed stones used in the interior (and which are exceptions to this fact) being from another oolite in the immediate vicinity of the castle. Bow and Arrow Castle, and the neighbouring ruins of a church of the fourteenth century, in the island of Portland, also afford instances of the Portland oolite in perfect condition. The new church in the island, built in 1766, of a variety of the Portland stone termed 'roach,' is in an...
Page 326 - ... difference shall be referred to two arbitrators, one to be appointed by each party, or to an umpire to be appointed by the arbitrators before entering on the reference pursuant to.
Page 435 - But at that time only the select few had grasped the truth, and even they only the beginning of it. Outside a narrow circle the thoughts, even of the educated, about the history of the globe were bounded by the story of the Deluge — though the story was often told in a strange fashion — or were guided by fantastic views of the plastic forces of a sportive Nature. In another branch of science, in that which deals with the problems presented by living beings, the thoughts of men in 1799 were also...
Page 434 - There had been from of old cosmogonies, theories as how the world had taken shape out of primeval chaos. In that fresh spirit which marked the zealous search after natural knowledge pursued in the middle and latter part of the seventeenth century, the brilliant Stenson, in Italy, and Hooke, in our own country, had laid hold of some of the problems presented by fossil remains, and Woodward, with others, had labored in the same field. In the eighteenth century, especially in its latter half, men's...
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Page 424 - MAN'S IGNORANCE AND NEGLIGENCE. The natural forces of destruction have been very greatly accelerated, either through the ignorance of quarrymen and their total disregard for proper time and methods of quarrying, or through the carelessness of workmen in cutting, carving, and laying the stone used in building construction. There are probably thousands of buildings, constructed out of stone, the lives of which have been shortened at least one-half by impropermethods of handling.