Transactions of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York, Volume 1 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 68
Page 47
... house of fame , a city where all the noises and business in the world do meet , and therefore this honour is justly due to it , to be the constant place of residence for that knowledge which is to be made up CLINTON'S INTRODUCTORY ...
... house of fame , a city where all the noises and business in the world do meet , and therefore this honour is justly due to it , to be the constant place of residence for that knowledge which is to be made up CLINTON'S INTRODUCTORY ...
Page 54
... houses . " * It is also used in that country for lighting streets , and in its purest forms is called naptha . At Amiano , in Italy , the petroleum of a spring , discovered within a few years , is also employed to light their cities ...
... houses . " * It is also used in that country for lighting streets , and in its purest forms is called naptha . At Amiano , in Italy , the petroleum of a spring , discovered within a few years , is also employed to light their cities ...
Page 82
... house plants was also built . At the commencement of 1805 nearly fifteen hundred species of American plants , beside ... houses , exhibiting a front of one hundred and eighty feet . The greater part of the ground is brought in a state of ...
... house plants was also built . At the commencement of 1805 nearly fifteen hundred species of American plants , beside ... houses , exhibiting a front of one hundred and eighty feet . The greater part of the ground is brought in a state of ...
Page 140
... houses and their huts of wood ; Their cities , places , names , and tribes he knew ; The Bellovacians , and Morinoes too , And rough Tarbellians ; -words pronounced with pain , - How rivers wandered through a breadth of plain ; How some ...
... houses and their huts of wood ; Their cities , places , names , and tribes he knew ; The Bellovacians , and Morinoes too , And rough Tarbellians ; -words pronounced with pain , - How rivers wandered through a breadth of plain ; How some ...
Page 157
... house fly in England ; their colour is black , and they are armed with stings ; they deposite their honey in the cavities of hollow trees in the woods . This honey has a dark brown colour , a sweet but less agreeable taste than the ...
... house fly in England ; their colour is black , and they are armed with stings ; they deposite their honey in the cavities of hollow trees in the woods . This honey has a dark brown colour , a sweet but less agreeable taste than the ...
Common terms and phrases
acid America anal fin animal appearance atmosphere belly birds body brown carbonic carbonic acid caudal caudal fin chalybeate character colour comet common considerable contagion contagious dark degree disease dorsal fin dysentery earthquake effects Esox extremity eyes feet fish four frequently Gill membrane gill-covers gill-opening half head Hosack hundred impure inches long Indians infection inhabitants Lake Lateral line length lime lime water Linnæus liver lower jaw miles Mitchill morbid mountains mouth muriatic muriatic acid nature New-York observed oesophagus opinion pectoral fins peculiar persons Philadelphia Philosophical physician plague pounds pylorus quantity rays remarkable resembling river rocks rows says scales Schooley's Mountain scirrhus season serrated shock side skin smooth snout Society species spines spinous spots spring stomach substance symptoms tail teeth throat tion upper vegetable ventral fins whitish yellow fever yellowish
Popular passages
Page 36 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance. Here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Page 107 - See, through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high, progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being ! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach ; from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing.
Page 36 - When your lordships look at the papers transmitted us from America, when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own. For myself, I must declare and avow, that in all my reading and observation...
Page vi - York" and by that name they and their successors shall and may have continual succession, and shall be persons in law, capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, defending and being defended, in all courts and places whatsoever...
Page 100 - That in ancient times a herd of these tremendous animals came to the Big-bone licks, and began an universal destruction of the bear, deer, elks, buffaloes, and other animals which had been created for the use of the Indians; that the Great Man above, looking down and seeing this, was so enraged that he seized his lightning, descended...
Page 90 - And all philosophical Experiments that let Light into the Nature of Things, tend to increase the Power of Man over Matter, and multiply the Conveniences or Pleasure of Life.
Page 45 - Here then are the advantages of free states. Though a republic should be barbarous, it necessarily, by an infallible operation, gives rise to Law, even before mankind have made any considerable advances in the '.other sciences. From law arises security : From security curiosity : And from curiosity knowledge.
Page 323 - ... terrific. Darkness was only visible at eight o'clock; and the birth of May dawned like the day of judgment : a chaotic gloom enveloped the mountain, and an impenetrable haze hung over the sea, with black sluggish clouds of a sulphureous cast. The whole island was covered with favilla, cinders, scoria, and broken masses of volcanic matter. It was not until the afternoon, the muttering noise of the mountain sunk gradually into a solemn yet suspicious silence.
Page 107 - Were we to press, inferior might on ours; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd: From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all "That system only, but the whole must fall.
Page 137 - For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.