The industrial self-instructor and technical journal, 4. kötet |
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239. oldal - Nature's workmanship ; made, as it seems, only to be trodden on to-day, and to-morrow to be cast into the oven; and a little pale and hollow stalk, feeble and flaccid, leading down to the dull brown fibres of roots. And yet, think of it well, and judge whether of all the gorgeous flowers that beam in summer air, and of all strong and goodly trees, pleasant to the eyes...
175. oldal - ... it is meant for the perpetual comfort and delight of the human heart ; it is richly bestowed on the highest works of creation, and the eminent sign and seal of perfection in them ; being associated with life in the human body, with light in the sky, with purity and hardness in the earth, — death, night, and pollution of all kinds being colorless.
125. oldal - one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
239. oldal - ... example of nature's workmanship, made as it seems only to be trodden on to-day, and to-morrow to be cast into the oven ; and a little pale and hollow stalk, feeble and flaccid, leading down to the dull brown fibres of roots.
159. oldal - Without a provision for this regular and abundant supply of water, drains not only fail to accomplish their object, but they become positively injurious. They generate and diffuse the very poison the formation of which it is their object to prevent. When the animal and vegetable matters contained in a drain are not regularly and completely washed away, they become stagnant ; a deposit is gradually formed ; the matters constituting this moist and semi-fluid deposit are placed under circumstances highly...
239. oldal - Gather a single blade of grass, and examine for a minute, quietly, its narrow sword-shaped strip of fluted green. Nothing, as it seems there, of notable goodness or beauty. A very little strength, and a very little tallness, and a few delicate long lines meeting in a point, — not a perfect point neither, but blunt and unfinished, by no means a creditable or apparently much cared for example of Nature's workmanship ; made, as it seems, only to be trodden on to-day, and to-morrow to be cast into...
32. oldal - By this process from 1 to 10 tons of crude iron may be converted into cast steel in 30 minutes, without employing any fuel except that required for melting the pig iron and for the preliminary heating of the converting vessel, the process being effected entirely without manipulation. The loss on the weight of crude iron is from 14 to 18 per cent. with English iron worked in small quantities ; but the result of working with a purer iron in Sweden has been carefully noted for two consecutive weeks,...
239. oldal - ... and love in dissimulation ' ; that enervation may succeed to strength, apathy to patience, and the noise of jesting words and foulness of dark thoughts, to the earnest purity of the girded loins and the burning lamp.
175. oldal - FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR "All men completely organized and justly tempered enjoy colour ; it is meant for the perpetual comfort and delight of the human heart.
22. oldal - The carbon is now burnt off so rapidly as to produce a series of harmless explosions, throwing out the fluid slag in great quantities ; while the combustion of the gases is so perfect that a voluminous white flame rushes from the mouth of the vessel, illuminating the whole building and indicating to the practised eye the precise condition of the metal inside. The...