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Σελίδα 408
4-57 Electricity ; Measure of Electric Forces 473 Action of Electrised Bodies on
Bodies in their Natural State : Electrical Machines 489 LIX. Effects produced by
the Accumulation of both Electricities... 505 Various Effects of Statical Electricity; ...
4-57 Electricity ; Measure of Electric Forces 473 Action of Electrised Bodies on
Bodies in their Natural State : Electrical Machines 489 LIX. Effects produced by
the Accumulation of both Electricities... 505 Various Effects of Statical Electricity; ...
Σελίδα 410
As bodies become luminous at a high temperature, caloric seems to be then
transformed to light, which would favour the idea, that these two agents ought to
be referred to one single cause, especially if we bear in mind that the luminous
rays ...
As bodies become luminous at a high temperature, caloric seems to be then
transformed to light, which would favour the idea, that these two agents ought to
be referred to one single cause, especially if we bear in mind that the luminous
rays ...
Σελίδα 411
Crystallised bodies belonging to this system, and those without crystallisation, as
glass, do not possess the property of double refraction, but they may acquire it
accidentally by unequal pressure or sudden cooling after having been heated.
Crystallised bodies belonging to this system, and those without crystallisation, as
glass, do not possess the property of double refraction, but they may acquire it
accidentally by unequal pressure or sudden cooling after having been heated.
Σελίδα 412
All bodies have, like glass, the power of polarising light by reflection, but not all
with the same completeness, nor at the same angle of incidence. Marble, for
instance, completely polarized light, while diamond and common glass only
polarise it ...
All bodies have, like glass, the power of polarising light by reflection, but not all
with the same completeness, nor at the same angle of incidence. Marble, for
instance, completely polarized light, while diamond and common glass only
polarise it ...
Σελίδα 416
As to those acts of cruelty which the Pagans perform in their religious services (
the wife committing herself to the flames with the body of her deceased husband,
children voluntarily thrown into the Ganges, or persons devoting their own lives ...
As to those acts of cruelty which the Pagans perform in their religious services (
the wife committing herself to the flames with the body of her deceased husband,
children voluntarily thrown into the Ganges, or persons devoting their own lives ...
Τι λένε οι χρήστες - Σύνταξη κριτικής
Δεν εντοπίσαμε κριτικές στις συνήθεις τοποθεσίες.
Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
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Σελίδα 684 - No more the woodman's ballad shall prevail ; No more the smith his dusky brow shall clear, Relax his ponderous strength, and lean to hear...
Σελίδα 700 - Toll for the brave ! Brave Kempenfelt is gone ; His last sea-fight is fought ; His work of glory done. It was not in the battle ; No tempest gave the shock ; She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no rock.
Σελίδα 684 - Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art...
Σελίδα 405 - This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in. Those who have read of everything are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours.
Σελίδα 684 - Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye, Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired, Where grey-beard mirth and smiling toil retired, Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place...
Σελίδα 684 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Σελίδα 699 - Shoots into port at some well-havened isle, Where spices breathe, and brighter seasons smile, There sits quiescent on the floods, that show Her beauteous form reflected clear below, While airs impregnated with incense play Around her, fanning light her streamers gay; — So thou, with sails how swift! hast reached the shore " Where tempests never beat nor billows roar," And thy loved consort on the dangerous tide Of life long since has anchored by thy side.
Σελίδα 670 - The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. Many experiments were made before I could hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and a rhetorical declamation : three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second and third, before I was EDWAHD GIBBON tolerably satisfied with their effect.
Σελίδα 700 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free, They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Σελίδα 700 - No powder'd pert proficient in the art Of sounding an alarm, assaults these doors Till the street rings. No stationary steeds Cough their own knell, while, heedless of the sound, The silent circle fan themselves and quake. But here the needle plies its busy task, The pattern grows, the well-depicted...