Essays on Scientific and Other Subjects Contributed to the Edinburgh and Quarterly ReviewsLongman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1862 - 504 Seiten |
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61 Cygni action Admiral Smyth admit aerolites already ancient animal argument astronomers Atlantic atomic atomic theory attained believe bodies Cæsar causes Chagos Bank changes character chemical chemical affinities Chemistry Cicero coast compound conclusions connection coral creation curious Dalton depth derived discovery doctrine double stars doubt earth effect electricity elements eminent enquiry evidence exact existence fact force forms furnished give globe human Humboldt illustration infusoria instances Julius Cæsar knowledge labours less longevity matter Mediterranean meteoric meteoric stones methods miles modern naturalists nature objects observation obtained ocean organic Organic Chemistry organisation origin parallax passage peculiar period phenomena philosophy physical planet Pompey present principle progress proof proper motion proportion question races racter recognised record reefs regard relation remarkable rendered Rome singular space species stars Strait successive surface theory tion truth various vast vegetable volume waters wonderful
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Seite 166 - As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done : Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright: To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail In monumental mockery.
Seite 199 - There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas.. It is the Gulf Stream.
Seite 19 - That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Seite 252 - Lo ! where Maeotis sleeps, and hardly flows The freezing Tanais through a waste of snows...
Seite 11 - Agreeing with those who admit the conservation of force to be a principle in physics, as large and sure as that of the indestructibility of matter, or the invariability of gravity, I think that no particular idea of force has a right to unlimited or unqualified acceptance that does not include assent to it...
Seite 186 - Caesar regarding his own oratorical powers. What other commander or conqueror, how few statesmen even, have obtained or merited tributes like these, and given by such judges ! * Nor can we fail to notice the portrait they convey to us of the noble aspect, attitudes, and voice of * ' Caesar autem, rationem adhibens, consuetudinem vitiosam et corruptam pura et incorrupta consuetudine emendat.
Seite 187 - C. vero CAESAR si foro tantum vacasset, non alius ex nostris contra Ciceronem nominaretur. Tanta in eo vis est, id acumen, ea concitatio, ut ilium eodem animo dixisse quo bellavit appareat ; exornat tamen haec omnia mira sermonis, cuius proprie studiosus fuit, elegantia.
Seite 140 - A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay And o'er informed the tenement of clay.
Seite 50 - Qnatrefages (A. De).— Rambles of a Naturalist on the Coasts of France, Spain, and Sicily. By A. DE QUATREFAGES. Memb. Inst. Translated by EC OTTE'.
Seite 199 - ... such majestic flow of waters. Its current is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon, and its volume more than a thousand times greater. Its waters, as far out from the Gulf as the Carolina coasts, are of...