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Page 24 - Connemara, Bog — Where the Samphire grows — A Flowery Meadow — Among the Corn (a Study in Weeds) — In the Home of the Alpines — A City Rubbish-Heap — Glossary. " A FRESH AND STIMULATING book . . . should take a high place . . . The Illustrations are drawn with much skill." — The Times. " BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED. . . . One of the HOST ACCURATE as well ai INTERESTING books of the kind we have seen."— Athenaeum.
Page 61 - I am further inclined to think, that when our views are sufficiently extended, to enable us to reason with precision concerning the proportions of elementary atoms, we shall find the arithmetical re.lation alone will not be sufficient to explain their mutual action, and that we shall be obliged to acquire a geometrical conception of their relative arrangement in all the three dimensions of solid extension.
Page 55 - To every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction; or, the mutual actions of any two bodies are always equal and oppositely directed along the same straight line.
Page 25 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the...
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Page 83 - British societies, that is, in addition to the Chemical Society, the Institute of Chemistry, the Society of Chemical Industry...
Page 158 - We have long and fully resolved with Ourself to extend not only the boundaries of the Empire, but also the very arts and sciences. Therefore we look with favour upon all forms of learning, but with particular grace we encourage philosophical studies, especially those which by actual experiment attempt either to shape out a new philosophy or to perfect the old.
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