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... ground , Mr. Pinkerton discreetly steers clear of theory : but he argues , perhaps rather too precipitately , against the identity of compact lava and basalt , from the rarity of the former in the neighbour- hood of Vesuvius , because ...
... ground , Mr. Pinkerton discreetly steers clear of theory : but he argues , perhaps rather too precipitately , against the identity of compact lava and basalt , from the rarity of the former in the neighbour- hood of Vesuvius , because ...
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... ground of irregularity of composition . ART . III . An Economical History of the Hebrides and Highlands of Scotland . By John Walker , D.D. , late Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh . 2 vols . 8vo . pp . 805 ...
... ground of irregularity of composition . ART . III . An Economical History of the Hebrides and Highlands of Scotland . By John Walker , D.D. , late Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh . 2 vols . 8vo . pp . 805 ...
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... ground without injury , though protected only by a slight covering of fern . If , however , the keen blasts of the east are here little known , the west wind and its fre- quent accompaniment , rain , give rise to loud complaints , espe ...
... ground without injury , though protected only by a slight covering of fern . If , however , the keen blasts of the east are here little known , the west wind and its fre- quent accompaniment , rain , give rise to loud complaints , espe ...
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... ground as to be out of the reach of horned cattle was lost on almost every hill - farm , for want of sheep . Five hundred thousand head of the latter might have been fed on this parti- cular kind of pasture , without diminishing the ...
... ground as to be out of the reach of horned cattle was lost on almost every hill - farm , for want of sheep . Five hundred thousand head of the latter might have been fed on this parti- cular kind of pasture , without diminishing the ...
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... ground , the number killed was so great as to shew that the injury sustained by the sheep - farmers from the eagle must be very material . The period at which the Highlands were most exposed to suffer from foxes and birds of prey was ...
... ground , the number killed was so great as to shew that the injury sustained by the sheep - farmers from the eagle must be very material . The period at which the Highlands were most exposed to suffer from foxes and birds of prey was ...
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Seite 154 - ... fluids, besides the vibratory motion, which must be conceived greatest in the last, the particles have a motion round their own axes, with different velocities, the particles of elastic fluids moving with the greatest quickness; and that, in ethereal substances, the particles move round their own axes, and separate from each other, penetrating in right lines through space. Temperature may be conceived to depend upon the...
Seite 314 - Any general character, from the best to the worst, from the most ignorant to the most enlightened, may be given to any community, even to the world at large, by the application of proper means; which means are to a great extent at the command and under the control of those who have influence in the affairs of men.
Seite 275 - Some cheerful souls were feasting on the plain; Some did the song, and some the choir maintain, Beneath a laurel shade, where mighty Po Mounts up to woods above, and hides his head below.
Seite 369 - If this was favourable, he showed a disposition to become more intimate, examined more minutely his dress, and expressed by his countenance more or less satisfaction ; but if it happened to be unfavourable, he suddenly went off to a distance with expressions of carelessness or disgust.
Seite 153 - When the temperature of bodies is raised by friction, there seems to be no diminution of their capacities, using the word in its common sense ; and in many chemical changes, connected with an increase of temperature, there appears to be likewise an increase of capacity. A piece of iron made red-hot by hammering, cannot be strongly heated a second time by the same means, unless it has been previously introduced into a fire.
Seite 130 - Were I to publish an account of silenced and ejected ministers, I should be strongly tempted to insert Mr. Lindsey in the list which he mentions in his apology with so much veneration. He certainly deserves as much respect and honour as any of them for the part he has acted.
Seite 154 - ... and elastic fluids, besides the vibratory motion, which must be conceived greatest in the last, the particles have a motion round their own axes, with different velocities, the particles of elastic fluids moving with the greatest quickness : and that in ethereal substances the particles move round their own axes, and separate from each other, penetrating in right lines through space.
Seite 394 - History of Scotland, from the Reformation to the death of Queen Mary, is an undisguised and virulent hypocritical attack on the History of Scotland by the same illustrious author.
Seite 375 - He was exceedingly courteous and affable, even to the lowest, and never despised any man for want of capacity, but always expressed freely his resentment against any immorality or impiety. He not only shewed a great and constant regard to religion in general, as well by an exemplary course of life, as in all his writings ; but was also a firm believer of revealed religion^ which appears by the many papers he has left on that subject...
Seite 405 - History of England, from the First Invasion of the Romans to the reign of William and Mary, in the year 1688.