The Edinburgh New Philosophical JournalA. and C. Black, 1862 |
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... mean composition of these two agrees more nearly with the uncrystallized rock in the quarry ( I. ) than the composition of either of them taken separately . There may have been an interchange of elements , some of the iron and magnesia ...
... mean composition of these two agrees more nearly with the uncrystallized rock in the quarry ( I. ) than the composition of either of them taken separately . There may have been an interchange of elements , some of the iron and magnesia ...
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... means of a current from a small voltaic circle between the leg and the part in contact with b , an effect was produced on the nerve b , as indicated by muscular contraction of that limb . The effects varied according as the nerves were ...
... means of a current from a small voltaic circle between the leg and the part in contact with b , an effect was produced on the nerve b , as indicated by muscular contraction of that limb . The effects varied according as the nerves were ...
9. oldal
... means of electricity other steps were adopted , such as the point of a needle , or a piece of glass , or by applying solution of caustic potash , or of common salt , to the nerve . Under these circumstances contractions were readily ...
... means of electricity other steps were adopted , such as the point of a needle , or a piece of glass , or by applying solution of caustic potash , or of common salt , to the nerve . Under these circumstances contractions were readily ...
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... means , such as irritating the nerve with a needle or a bit of glass ; also by chemical means , such as moistening the nerve with a solution of caustic potash , or of common salt , or with strong acids so that electricity itself is not ...
... means , such as irritating the nerve with a needle or a bit of glass ; also by chemical means , such as moistening the nerve with a solution of caustic potash , or of common salt , or with strong acids so that electricity itself is not ...
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... , the bug , by means of its sucker , deprives the tree of its sap , that is its blood and nourishment , after it has entered the organism ; whilst the fungus , which never fails Enemies of the Coffee - Tree in Ceylon . 27.
... , the bug , by means of its sucker , deprives the tree of its sap , that is its blood and nourishment , after it has entered the organism ; whilst the fungus , which never fails Enemies of the Coffee - Tree in Ceylon . 27.
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125. oldal - Sharing the stillness of the unimpassioned rock, they share also its endurance ; and while the winds of departing spring scatter the white hawthorn...
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78. oldal - ... carboniferous system is surmounted, to the east of the Volga, by a vast series of beds of marls, schists, limestones, sandstones and conglomerates, to which I propose to give the name of "Permian System...
177. oldal - a hill of olives,' " with the "fence," and " the stones gathered out," and " the tower in the midst of it," is the natural figure which, both in the prophetical and evangelical records', represents the kingdom of Judah. The "vine" was the emblem of the nation on the coins of the Maccabees, and in the colossal cluster of golden grapes which overhung the porch of the second Temple ; and the grapes of Judah still mark the tombstones of the Hebrew race in the oldest of their European cemeteries, at...
145. oldal - Nobody however who has paid any attention to the particular features of our present era, will doubt for a moment that we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to the accomplishment of that great end to which, indeed, all History points — the realization of the unity of Mankind.
124. oldal - Unfading as motionless, the worm frets them not, and the autumn wastes not. Strong in lowliness, they neither blanch in heat nor pine in frost.
176. oldal - ... are still to be seen, in the trunks of palms washed up on the shores of the Dead Sea*, — preserved by the salt with which a long submersion in those strange waters has impregnated them. En-gedi, too, on the western side of the same lake, was known in early times as HazazonTamar* — "the felling of palm-trees.
92. oldal - The Attic silver was of acknowledged purity, and circulated very extensively: the Athenian merchants, particularly in their commercial dealings with the more distant and barbarous nations, appear frequently to have made their payments in it. The barbarians being once impressed with these notions of its purity, the government of Athens, in all probability, was afraid materially to change that style and appearance by which their money was known and valued among these people. A similar proceeding in...
201. oldal - The colloidal is, in fact, a dynamical state of matter; the crystalloidal being the statical condition. The colloid possesses energia. It may be looked upon as the probable primary source of the force appearing in the phenomena of vitality.