The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts, Volume 10A. and C. Black, 1831 - Science |
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... effect a well arranged institution , however inconsiderable it may be , what a public pro- fessorship , for example , may produce in a great kingdom , let it be considered what our mines then were , and what they have since become . Our ...
... effect a well arranged institution , however inconsiderable it may be , what a public pro- fessorship , for example , may produce in a great kingdom , let it be considered what our mines then were , and what they have since become . Our ...
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... effect such an insensible transition . We agree with many eminent geo- logists in thinking that , in Europe , the termination of the chalk period was characterized by tremendous catastrophes ; whole chains of mountains have been heaved ...
... effect such an insensible transition . We agree with many eminent geo- logists in thinking that , in Europe , the termination of the chalk period was characterized by tremendous catastrophes ; whole chains of mountains have been heaved ...
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... effect a similar purpose in certain birds , as the stork , and some others of the grallæ , which sleep standing on one foot . It will appear , also , in the sequel , that not only is the effect produced the same , but the mechanism is ...
... effect a similar purpose in certain birds , as the stork , and some others of the grallæ , which sleep standing on one foot . It will appear , also , in the sequel , that not only is the effect produced the same , but the mechanism is ...
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... effects less conspicuous in the basin of Alhama . At the present day , streams of inconsiderable magnitude flow quietly along their respective areas ; and , instead of directing their course to the nearer Mediterranean , from which they ...
... effects less conspicuous in the basin of Alhama . At the present day , streams of inconsiderable magnitude flow quietly along their respective areas ; and , instead of directing their course to the nearer Mediterranean , from which they ...
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... effect of this vascular membrane is increased by the entrance of sea - water into the oviduct . The apertures into the cavity of the peritoneum of these animals may also allow the water to come into contact with the oviduct ; and , in ...
... effect of this vascular membrane is increased by the entrance of sea - water into the oviduct . The apertures into the cavity of the peritoneum of these animals may also allow the water to come into contact with the oviduct ; and , in ...
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Page 310 - And God said unto Noah, the end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold I will destroy them with the earth. Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
Page 123 - And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood...
Page 123 - And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.
Page 310 - Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. 15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
Page 329 - This bird is my greatest favorite of the feathered tribes of our woods. To it I owe much. How often has it revived my drooping spirits, when I have listened to its wild notes in the forest, after passing a restless night in my slender shed, so feebly secured against the violence of the storm as to show me the futility of my best efforts to rekindle my little fire, whose uncertain and vacillating light had gradually died away under the destructive weight of the dense torrents of rain that seemed to...
Page 123 - And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river ; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.
Page 310 - A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stones shalt thou make it.
Page 330 - ... were instantly followed by an uproar of crackling, crashing, and deafening sounds, rolling their volumes in tumultuous eddies far and near, as if to silence the very breathings of the unformed thought! How often, after such a night, when far from my dear home, and deprived of the presence of those nearest to my heart, wearied, hungry, drenched, and so lonely and desolate as almost to question myself why I was thus situated; when I have seen the fruits of my...
Page 392 - Lancaster, copper-plate engraver, for the invention of " a certain method of dissolving snow and ice on the trams or railways, in order that locomotive steam engines and carriages, and other carriages, may pass over railroads, without any obstruction or impediment from such snow or ice.
Page 202 - Geologist endeavors to decipher relate to a period when the physical constitution of the earth differed entirely from the present, and that, even after the creation of living beings, there have been causes in action distinct in kind or degree from these now forming part of the economy of nature. These views have been gradually modified, and some of them entirely abandoned.