Michael FaradayMacmillan and Company, 1872 - 176 oldal |
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... Turning from the busy stream of Piccadilly into the quiet of Albemarle Street , we see , in a line with the other houses , a large Grecian façade with fourteen lofty pilasters . Between these are folding doors , which are pushed open ...
... Turning from the busy stream of Piccadilly into the quiet of Albemarle Street , we see , in a line with the other houses , a large Grecian façade with fourteen lofty pilasters . Between these are folding doors , which are pushed open ...
4. oldal
... turning to the right , we pass through an ante - room to the lecture theatre . There stands the large table , horseshoe - shaped , with the necessary appliances for experiments , and behind it a furnace and arrangements for black ...
... turning to the right , we pass through an ante - room to the lecture theatre . There stands the large table , horseshoe - shaped , with the necessary appliances for experiments , and behind it a furnace and arrangements for black ...
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... turned up again under the alias of Vestium ; but again he was unable to escape the vigilant eye of the young detective , for one known substance after another was re- moved from it ; and then , says Faraday , " my Vestium entirely ...
... turned up again under the alias of Vestium ; but again he was unable to escape the vigilant eye of the young detective , for one known substance after another was re- moved from it ; and then , says Faraday , " my Vestium entirely ...
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... turned either to the acquisition of a fortune , or to the following up of those great discoveries ; it would not do both : which should he relinquish ? The choice was deliberately made : Nature revealed to him more and more of her ...
... turned either to the acquisition of a fortune , or to the following up of those great discoveries ; it would not do both : which should he relinquish ? The choice was deliberately made : Nature revealed to him more and more of her ...
40. oldal
... turning usually on Saturday , that he might be among his own people on the Lord's Day . During the meeting he would generally accept the hospitality of some friend ; and it was one of these occasions that gave rise to the following jeu ...
... turning usually on Saturday , that he might be among his own people on the Lord's Day . During the meeting he would generally accept the hospitality of some friend ; and it was one of these occasions that gave rise to the following jeu ...
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