The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volumen9Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1846 |
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... force the at- tention upon the importance of keeping apart the inder or criterion of any object from its essential or differential principle . Some readers may fancy it more easy to keep these ideas apart , than sys- tematically to ...
... force the at- tention upon the importance of keeping apart the inder or criterion of any object from its essential or differential principle . Some readers may fancy it more easy to keep these ideas apart , than sys- tematically to ...
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... forces , magnet - tain the weight of another . But although it ism and electricity , has not only been thus appears clear ... force and another of the imponderables - light ; and shown to us , moreover , the real nature of the action ex ...
... forces , magnet - tain the weight of another . But although it ism and electricity , has not only been thus appears clear ... force and another of the imponderables - light ; and shown to us , moreover , the real nature of the action ex ...
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... force inversely as the squares of the distance ; that the particles of this fluid at- tract the particles of iron , and are at- tracted by them in return with a similar force ; that the particles of iron repel each other according to ...
... force inversely as the squares of the distance ; that the particles of this fluid at- tract the particles of iron , and are at- tracted by them in return with a similar force ; that the particles of iron repel each other according to ...
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... forces themselves must be closely allied sted's researches , unnumbered experiments to each other . This connexion between were made to produce this effect ; but all magnetism and electricity was a favorite these experiments failed ...
... forces themselves must be closely allied sted's researches , unnumbered experiments to each other . This connexion between were made to produce this effect ; but all magnetism and electricity was a favorite these experiments failed ...
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... Forces . " His object was to show that motion , chemical affinity , heat , light , electricity , and magnet- ism , are all convertible affections of mat- ter - that either being taken as an initial mode of force is able to produce any ...
... Forces . " His object was to show that motion , chemical affinity , heat , light , electricity , and magnet- ism , are all convertible affections of mat- ter - that either being taken as an initial mode of force is able to produce any ...
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Página 259 - Prayer is the burden of a sigh ; The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near.
Página 431 - We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. " ' So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. " ' Our very hopes belied our fears ; Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died.
Página 94 - It is a nest of wasps, or swarm of vermin which have overcrept the land. I mean the Monopolies and Pollers of the people : these, like the Frogs of Egypt, have gotten possession of our dwellings, and we have scarce a room free from them. They sup in our cup.
Página 246 - God called up from dreams a man into the vestibule of heaven, saying, ' Come thou hither, and see the glory of my house.' And to the servants that stood around his throne he said, 'Take him, and undress him from his robes of flesh : cleanse his vision, and put a new breath into his nostrils : arm him with sail-broad wings for flight. Only touch not with any change his human heart — the heart that weeps and trembles.
Página 31 - I have long held an opinion, almost amounting to conviction, in common I believe with many other lovers of natural knowledge, that the various forms under which the forces of matter are made manifest have one common origin; or, in other words, are so directly related and mutually dependent, that they are convertible, as it were, one into another, and possess equivalents of power in their action.
Página 438 - ... that the law was the golden met-wand and measure to try the cause of the subjects ; and which protected his majesty in safety and peace; with which the king was greatly offended, and said, that then he should be under the law, which was treason to affirm, as he said ; to which I said, that Bracton saith, quod Rex non debet esse sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege.
Página 258 - The SUN is but a spark of fire, A transient meteor in the sky ; The SOUL, immortal as its Sire, SHALL NEVER DIE.
Página 246 - ... archways, beyond memory the gates. Within were stairs that scaled the eternities below; above was below, — below was above, to the man stripped of gravitating body; depth was swallowed up in height insurmountable; height was swallowed up in depth unfathomable. Suddenly, as thus they rode from infinite to infinite; suddenly, as thus they tilted over abysmal worlds, a mighty cry arose that systems more mysterious, that worlds more billowy, other heights and other depths, were coming — were...
Página 364 - Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
Página 405 - ... a woman of great beauty, but of far greater parts. She had a wonderful quickness of apprehension, and an amazing vivacity in conversation. She had studied not only divinity and history, but mathematics and philosophy. She was violent in everything she set about, — a violent friend, but a much more violent enemy. She had a restless ambition, lived at a vast expense, and was ravenously covetous ; and would have stuck at nothing by which she might compass her ends.