 It is less interesting, perhaps, but still it is interesting, to know that when a taper burns the wax is converted into carbonic acid and water. Moreover, it is quite true that the habit of dealing with facts, which is given by the study of nature, is,...  The Popular Science Monthly - 745. oldal1882Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | 1877 - 604 oldal
...of things it would be if every scholar who had passed through the course of our primary schools knew that, when a taper burns, the wax is converted into carbonic acid and water, and thought, at the same time, that a good paraphrase for Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased?... | |
 | 1882 - 884 oldal
...its shell and begin the world. It is less interesting, perhaps, but still it is interesting, to know that when a taper burns, the wax is converted into carbonic acid and water. Moreover, it is quite true that the habit of dealing with facts which is given by the study of nature... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1882 - 920 oldal
...instrument-knowledges. Experience shows us that the generality of men will find more interest in learning that when a taper burns the wax is converted into carbonic acid and water, or in learning the explanation of the phenomenon of dew, or in learning how the circulation of the... | |
 | 1882 - 1050 oldal
...its shell and begin the world. It is less interesting, perhaps, but still it is interesting, to know that when a taper burns, the wax is converted into carbonic acid and water. Moreover, it is quite true that the habit of dealing with facts which is given by the study of nature... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1885 - 232 oldal
...science praise it for being, an excellent discipline. The appeal, in the study of nature, is constantly to observation and experiment ; not only is it said...as a man may tell us, if he likes, that Charon is punting his ferry-boat on the river Styx, or that Victor Hugo is a sublime poet, or Mr. Gladstone the... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1885 - 234 oldal
...its shell and begin the world. It is less interesting, perhaps, but still it is interesting, to know that when a taper burns, the wax is converted into carbonic acid and water. Moreover, it is quite true that the habit of dealing with facts, which is given by the . study of nature,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1889 - 332 oldal
...of things it would be if every scholar who had passed through the course of our primary schools knew that, when a taper burns, the wax is converted into carbonic acid and water, and thought, at the same time, that a good paraphrase for Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 464 oldal
...its shell and begin the world. It is less interesting, perhaps, but still it is interesting, to know that when a taper burns, the wax is converted into carbonic acid and water. 15 Moreover, it is quite true that the habit of dealing with facts, which is given by the studyoTnature,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Girling Fitch - 1897 - 304 oldal
...of things it would be if every scholar who had passed through the course of our primary schools knew that when a taper burns, the wax is converted into carbonic acid and water, and thought, at the same time that a good paraphrase of Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1903 - 404 oldal
...instrumentknowledges. Experience shows us that the generality of men will find more interest in learning that, when a taper burns, the wax is converted into carbonic acid and water, or in learning the explanation of the phenomenon of dew, or in learning how the circulation of the... | |
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