Glasgow Mechanics' Magazine, and Annals of Philosophy, Volumen3W.R. M'Phun., 1825 |
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... considerable additions and improvements were made . The division of France into departments , instead of its ancient ... considerably above a thousand ; and a great number of the others were either newly written or greatly improved ...
... considerable additions and improvements were made . The division of France into departments , instead of its ancient ... considerably above a thousand ; and a great number of the others were either newly written or greatly improved ...
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... considerably lower , but the variations in composition are not great . and The samples of ragi straw are from two districts - Salem Nellore and exhibit considerable variations in nutritive value . The averages for the two districts do ...
... considerably lower , but the variations in composition are not great . and The samples of ragi straw are from two districts - Salem Nellore and exhibit considerable variations in nutritive value . The averages for the two districts do ...
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... considerably enlarged and improved . It has , indeed , been objected by some , that I have already stretched the limits of my work too far , by admitting into it descriptions of birds , which can only be tamed with considerable ...
... considerably enlarged and improved . It has , indeed , been objected by some , that I have already stretched the limits of my work too far , by admitting into it descriptions of birds , which can only be tamed with considerable ...
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... considerable im provement on the premises . The Doctor is a Chemist of es teemed skill and eminence ; and he purposes , by artificial means , here to produce waters of the same power and effect as those of Cheltenham and Harrowgate , as ...
... considerable im provement on the premises . The Doctor is a Chemist of es teemed skill and eminence ; and he purposes , by artificial means , here to produce waters of the same power and effect as those of Cheltenham and Harrowgate , as ...
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... considerable quantity of Bacillus rudensis was necessary in order to result in any considerable showing in the cheese . The same observations regarding the difference in the product from different vats on the same day , which is well ...
... considerable quantity of Bacillus rudensis was necessary in order to result in any considerable showing in the cheese . The same observations regarding the difference in the product from different vats on the same day , which is well ...
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Página 39 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Página 316 - But a just story of learning, containing the antiquities and originals of knowledges and their sects, their inventions, their traditions, their diverse administrations and managings, their flourishings, their oppositions, decays, depressions, oblivions, removes, with the causes and occasions of them, and all other events concerning learning, throughout the ages of the world, I may truly affirm to be wanting.
Página 311 - From these and all long errors of the way, In which our wandering predecessors went, And, like th' old Hebrews, many years did stray, In deserts but of small extent, Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last : The barren wilderness he past ; Did on the very border stand Of the blest promis'd land ; And from the mountain's top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and shew'd us it.
Página 317 - comprehensive " understanding. This wide ranging intellect was illuminated by the brightest Fancy that ever contented itself with the office of only ministering to Reason ; and from this singular relation of the two grand faculties of man, it has resulted, that his philosophy, though illustrated still more than adorned by the utmost splendour of imagery, continues still subject to the undivided supremacy of Intellect. In the midst of all the prodigality of an imagination which, had it been independent,...
Página 343 - The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Página 319 - It may be read from beginning to end in a few hours ; and yet after the twentieth perusal one seldom fails to remark in it something overlooked before. This, indeed, is a characteristic of all Bacon's writings, and is only to be accounted for by the inexhaustible aliment they furnish to our own thoughts and the sympathetic activity they impart to our torpid faculties.
Página 317 - It is easy to describe his transcendent merit in general terms of commendation ; for some of his great qualities lie on the surface of his writings. But that in which he most excelled all other men was in the range and compass of his intellectual view — the power of contemplating many and distant objects together, without indistinctness or confusion — which he himself has called the discursive or comprehensive understanding.
Página 256 - ... the concave taken out at the other end, which extendeth to about the middle of this erected tent, through which the visible radiations of all the objects without are intromitted, falling upon a paper, which is accommodated to receive them ; and so he traceth them with his pen in their natural appearance, turning his little tent round by degrees, till he hath designed the whole aspect of the field.
Página 22 - ... and put it under a sitting fowl. At the expiration of a certain number of days, they break the shell in water warmed by the sun. The young fry are presently hatched, and are kept in pure fresh water till they are large enough to be thrown into a pond with the old fish.
Página 131 - Bristol [1838?]. 8°. Cleland (J.) Historical account of the steam engine and its application in propelling vessels: with an account of the number and uses of the steam engines in Glasgow, and number of steam boats on the Clyde, in the years 1825 and 1829; population and statistical tables, births, marriages, and burials. Glasgow: E. Khull &> Son, 1820. I pl, 68 p., I 1. 8°.