The Popular lecturer [afterw.] Pitman's Popular lecturer (and reader), ed. by H. Pitman, Объемы 4-6Henry Pitman |
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... glass coach machine , hung on steel springs , exceeding light and easy , to go to London in ten days in summer , and twelve in winter . " The same distance is now performed by the locomotive in as 152 MECHANICAL TRADES.
... glass coach machine , hung on steel springs , exceeding light and easy , to go to London in ten days in summer , and twelve in winter . " The same distance is now performed by the locomotive in as 152 MECHANICAL TRADES.
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... glass being liable to break , and from its going out in an impure atmosphere sooner than a Davy . So long as the glass remains entire the lamp must be safer than a Davy , and when broken it must be as good as that lamp ; but still the ...
... glass being liable to break , and from its going out in an impure atmosphere sooner than a Davy . So long as the glass remains entire the lamp must be safer than a Davy , and when broken it must be as good as that lamp ; but still the ...
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... glass , and consequently not nearly so safe in general use as the lights protected by both glass and gauze . I shall now direct your attention to the explosive mixtures of fire - damp . It is a very fortunate cir- cumstance that fire ...
... glass , and consequently not nearly so safe in general use as the lights protected by both glass and gauze . I shall now direct your attention to the explosive mixtures of fire - damp . It is a very fortunate cir- cumstance that fire ...
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... glass , and the Clock with weights and wheels , have in turn been used to indicate the lapse of time . And we may easily arrive at the conclusion that before these artificial means were employed , nature gave abun- dant proof of the ...
... glass , and the Clock with weights and wheels , have in turn been used to indicate the lapse of time . And we may easily arrive at the conclusion that before these artificial means were employed , nature gave abun- dant proof of the ...
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... glass is said to have been first used in Alexandria , about B. c . 140 ; and no doubt its form is familiar to most of you . In consequence of its cheap- ness , portability , and simplicity , it has continued in use in this country up to ...
... glass is said to have been first used in Alexandria , about B. c . 140 ; and no doubt its form is familiar to most of you . In consequence of its cheap- ness , portability , and simplicity , it has continued in use in this country up to ...
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Стр. 310 - Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence.
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Стр. 219 - The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men — between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant — is energy, invincible determination, a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that can be done in this world, and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged creature a man without it.
Стр. 175 - I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but...
Стр. 175 - For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass : 24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
Стр. 257 - Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains ; and of all that we behold From this green earth ; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create*, And what perceive...
Стр. 176 - Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth; Glad hearts, without reproach or blot, Who do thy work and know it not: Oh!
Стр. 309 - The star that bids the shepherd fold Now the top of heaven doth hold ; And the gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream : And the slope sun his upward beam Shoots against the dusky pole, Pacing toward the other goal Of his chamber in the east.
Стр. 1 - But time did beckon to the flowers, and they By noon most cunningly did steal away, And withered in my hand.
Стр. 66 - ... for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost...