Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 28; Volume 91John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1878 |
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... fact of its being in direct contradiction to the well - known and estab- lished facts of science - a contradiction as absolute and astounding as it is inexpli- cable . From this sweeping verdict I wish only to except one position . No ...
... fact of its being in direct contradiction to the well - known and estab- lished facts of science - a contradiction as absolute and astounding as it is inexpli- cable . From this sweeping verdict I wish only to except one position . No ...
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... fact that in the living muscle heat always appears when the muscle does work ( Heidenhain having shown that of two mus- cles equally weighted and undergoing equal contractions , one doing external work , while the other does none , the ...
... fact that in the living muscle heat always appears when the muscle does work ( Heidenhain having shown that of two mus- cles equally weighted and undergoing equal contractions , one doing external work , while the other does none , the ...
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... fact that one single cell did decom- pose water . For those who wish further confirmation of the fact by independent testimony , I would refer to the article ' Electrolysis ' in the second supplement to Watts ' Dictionary of Chemistry ...
... fact that one single cell did decom- pose water . For those who wish further confirmation of the fact by independent testimony , I would refer to the article ' Electrolysis ' in the second supplement to Watts ' Dictionary of Chemistry ...
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... facts upon which Lord Derby's opinion is based in the archives of the Foreign Office , they are to be found in the ... fact is marked by the appearance on the scene of the barbarian mercena- ries whose presence cannot fail to lend a ...
... facts upon which Lord Derby's opinion is based in the archives of the Foreign Office , they are to be found in the ... fact is marked by the appearance on the scene of the barbarian mercena- ries whose presence cannot fail to lend a ...
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... fact , that although we have oxygen and nitrogen mechanically mixed in our air , and although we have oxygen and hydrogen chemically combined in our water , yet there is no free hydrogen present in the earth's atmosphere ; and again ...
... fact , that although we have oxygen and nitrogen mechanically mixed in our air , and although we have oxygen and hydrogen chemically combined in our water , yet there is no free hydrogen present in the earth's atmosphere ; and again ...
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Page 316 - Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong.
Page 209 - For we are saved by hope : but hope that is seen is not hope : for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Page 53 - The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast — a serpent armed With mortal sting.
Page 406 - So live, that when thy summons comes, to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon; but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 538 - So, some tempestuous morn in early June, When the year's primal burst of bloom is o'er, Before the roses and the longest day — When garden-walks and all the grassy floor With blossoms red and white of fallen May And chestnut flowers are strewn — So have I heard the cuckoo's parting cry, From the wet field, through the vext garden-trees, Come with the volleying rain and tossing breeze: The bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I!
Page 537 - He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear; And struck his finger on the place, And said: Thou ailest here, and here!
Page 38 - The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honors, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth.
Page 128 - States, or any State, Territory, district, or municipal corporation, shall be appropriated to, or made or used for, the support of any school, educational, or other institution under the control of any religious or anti-religious sect, organization, or denomination, or wherein the particular creed or tenets of any religious or anti-religious sect, organization, or denomination shall be taught. And no such particular creed or tenets shall be read or taught in any school or institution...
Page 306 - My eyes are dim with childish tears. My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay : And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.
Page 122 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.