The Popular Science Monthly, Том 28D. Appleton, 1886 |
Результаты поиска по книге
Результаты 1 – 5 из 74
Стр. 2
... change ; and if the eggs of the larger description of swans , or leather balls , stitched with fine thongs , be filled with niter , the purest sulphur , quicksilver , or kindred materials , which rarefy by their caloric energy ; and if ...
... change ; and if the eggs of the larger description of swans , or leather balls , stitched with fine thongs , be filled with niter , the purest sulphur , quicksilver , or kindred materials , which rarefy by their caloric energy ; and if ...
Стр. 10
... change both in direction and velocity . It should be able to fly continuously for a long while , and should be tolerably safe . On the water , if the machinery gives out , we can float or swim ; but in the air any little difficulty of ...
... change both in direction and velocity . It should be able to fly continuously for a long while , and should be tolerably safe . On the water , if the machinery gives out , we can float or swim ; but in the air any little difficulty of ...
Стр. 44
... change ? The civil service , the learned professions , as well as the army and navy , are now barred by examinations . Do the boys of our public schools easily leap over the bars , although some of them have lately been lowered so as to ...
... change ? The civil service , the learned professions , as well as the army and navy , are now barred by examinations . Do the boys of our public schools easily leap over the bars , although some of them have lately been lowered so as to ...
Стр. 55
... change . ence . Here is another Paris view , of a spot infinitely interesting to the historian , the Place de la Concorde . Almost in exact range we see the two fountains on either side of the Obelisk of Luxor ; a quarter of a mile ...
... change . ence . Here is another Paris view , of a spot infinitely interesting to the historian , the Place de la Concorde . Almost in exact range we see the two fountains on either side of the Obelisk of Luxor ; a quarter of a mile ...
Стр. 69
... changes . The time has been , within the memory of many now living , when the man who had money to put at usury , generally loaned on personal indorsement , the borrower relying on his neighbor or other good friend to " back " his paper ...
... changes . The time has been , within the memory of many now living , when the man who had money to put at usury , generally loaned on personal indorsement , the borrower relying on his neighbor or other good friend to " back " his paper ...
Другие издания - Просмотреть все
Часто встречающиеся слова и выражения
animals appear become believe birds body botany brain carat cause cent character chimpanzee clover color common cosmogony course direction earth effect evolution existence experience fact favor feet flying-machine G. P. Putnam's Sons Genesis Gheel give Gladstone gorilla Government human hundred idea important inches increase interest invention kind knowledge labor less light living lower Max Müller means ment method Mexico miles millimetres mind modern natural natural selection nebular hypothesis negro object observation organic origin Origin of Species plants population present principle produced Professor purple clover question race railroad rates remarkable schools scientific shell-money species structure succession theory things tion tornadoes traffic trees truth University wampum whole York
Популярные отрывки
Стр. 41 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Стр. 19 - Thou makest thine appeal to me. I bring to life, I bring to death; The spirit does but mean the breath: I know no more.
Стр. 19 - I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.
Стр. 19 - Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete; That not a worm is cloven in vain; That not a moth with vain desire Is shrivelled in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain.
Стр. 18 - Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Стр. 413 - Amid the mysteries which become the more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the ONE absolute certainty, that he is ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed.
Стр. 20 - And he, shall he Man, her last work, who seem'd so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Tho...
Стр. 38 - And what if Trade sow cities Like shells along the shore, And thatch with towns the prairie broad With railways ironed o'er? — They are but sailing foam-bells Along Thought's causing stream, And take their shape and sun-color From him that sends the dream.
Стр. 49 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Стр. 451 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and God saw that it was good.