The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Band 11Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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... plants . M. Chaussier observes , that mucilage is found in great quantity in many plants ; it may easily be extracted by boiling ; and a factitious gum , which is both supple and tenacious , may be formed by evaporation . These ...
... plants . M. Chaussier observes , that mucilage is found in great quantity in many plants ; it may easily be extracted by boiling ; and a factitious gum , which is both supple and tenacious , may be formed by evaporation . These ...
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... plants can easily penetrate them . There is an important circumstance occurs in the preceding experiments on the sudden conge- lation of a body kept liquid below its usual congealing temperature , to which we must now advert . The mass ...
... plants can easily penetrate them . There is an important circumstance occurs in the preceding experiments on the sudden conge- lation of a body kept liquid below its usual congealing temperature , to which we must now advert . The mass ...
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... plants are then cut over , close by the ground , at convenient distances ; and the remaining plants are cut perhaps half through , so as to permit them to be bent to one side . They are then bent down almost to a horizontal position ...
... plants are then cut over , close by the ground , at convenient distances ; and the remaining plants are cut perhaps half through , so as to permit them to be bent to one side . They are then bent down almost to a horizontal position ...
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... plants ; natural order thirty - second , papilio- naceæ . The carina of the corolla is transversely obtuse ; the seed - vessel a legumen with mono- spermous joints . There are above 120 species of this plant , of which the most ...
... plants ; natural order thirty - second , papilio- naceæ . The carina of the corolla is transversely obtuse ; the seed - vessel a legumen with mono- spermous joints . There are above 120 species of this plant , of which the most ...
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... plants and roots were all friendly to man , and that even the serpents had their poison weakened by the in- noxious qualities of their food . Its north side was near Parnassus , where it touched on Phocis ; and resembled that mountain ...
... plants and roots were all friendly to man , and that even the serpents had their poison weakened by the in- noxious qualities of their food . Its north side was near Parnassus , where it touched on Phocis ; and resembled that mountain ...
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Seite 200 - And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Seite 121 - Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Seite 222 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Seite 385 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain, • Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open field, and where the unpierced shade Imbrowned the noontide bowers : thus was this place A happy rural seat of various view...
Seite 90 - He who ascends to mountain-tops shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down on the hate of those below. Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow . Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led.
Seite 142 - Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously steep ; and drawing near, There breathes a living fragrance from the shore, Of flowers yet fresh with childhood ; on the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar, Or chirps the grasshopper one good-night carol more...
Seite 122 - All heaven and earth are still — though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most ; And silent, as we stand in thoughts too deep. All heaven and earth are still : from the high host Of stars, to the lulled lake and mountain-coast, All is concentered in a life intense, Where not a beam, nor air, nor leaf is lost, But hath a part of being, and a sense Of that which is of all Creator and defence.
Seite 16 - I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
Seite 10 - I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world: And for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it; yet I'll hammer it out.
Seite 102 - Temperature may be conceived to depend upon the velocities of the vibrations ; increase of capacity on the motion being performed in •greater space ; and the diminution of temperature, during the conversion of solids into fluids or gases, may be explained on the idea of the loss of vibratory motion, in consequence of the revolution of particles round their axes, at the moment when the body becomes liquid or aeriform ; or from the loss of rapidity of vibration, in consequence of the motion of the...