The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and Instructive Articles on Scientific Subjects, 2. kötetJames Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas Robert Hardwicke, 1863 |
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339. oldal - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up...
391. oldal - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
2. oldal - As I have paid good attention to the manner of life of these birds during their season of breeding, which lasts the summer through, the following remarks may not perhaps be unacceptable : — About an hour before sunset (for then the mice begin to run) they sally forth in quest of prey, and hunt all round the hedges of meadows and small enclosures for them, which seem to be their only food. In this irregular country...
97. oldal - She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife.
198. oldal - Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum...
253. oldal - I have this autumn (1847) myself witnessed, whole hundredweights of rich wholesome diet rotting under the trees ; woods teeming with food and not one hand to gather it ; and this, perhaps, in the midst of potato blight, poverty and all manner of privations, and public prayers against imminent famine.
496. oldal - They are then in an active state, but each is neutralized by the relative effect that the others have upon it. When they are absorbed in the same proportions, they are in a passive state, and black is the result. When transmitted through any transparent body, the effect is the same ; but in the first case they are material or inherent, and in the second impalpable or transient. Color, therefore, depends entirely on the reflective or refractive power of bodies, as the transmission or reflection of...
496. oldal - When these three colours are reflected from any opaque body in these proportions, white is produced. They are then in an active state, but each is neutralised by the relative effect that the others have upon it. When they are absorbed in the same proportions, they are in a passive state, and black is the result.
498. oldal - I accidentally observed the colour of the flower of the Geranium zonale by candlelight in the autumn of 1792. The flower was pink, but it appeared to me almost an exact sky-blue by day ; in candlelight, however, it was astonishingly changed, not having then any blue in it, but being what I called red — a colour which forms a striking contrast to blue.
300. oldal - Blue-bottle flies, And Moths were of no small account in his eyes ; An "Industrious Flea" he'd by no means despise, While an "Old Daddy-long-legs...