Things Not Generally Known: a Popular Handbook of Facts Not Readily Accessible in Literature, History, and ScienceDavid Ames Wells |
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... temperature , Hlence , deaths by war and r the Great , Russian divilization under 158 law of 102 nomens of the death - bed , 373 pomena of vision , a ipples , 43 nology , falsity of 387 les of the Mississippi River , 195 le , origin of ...
... temperature , Hlence , deaths by war and r the Great , Russian divilization under 158 law of 102 nomens of the death - bed , 373 pomena of vision , a ipples , 43 nology , falsity of 387 les of the Mississippi River , 195 le , origin of ...
Page 187
... temperature of 10 ° per cent . above freez- ing , and melts and boils at 20 ° , a temperature to which it can be raised by holding the phial for some time in the hand . FALLACIES OF STATISTICS . Archbishop Whately remarks upon the ...
... temperature of 10 ° per cent . above freez- ing , and melts and boils at 20 ° , a temperature to which it can be raised by holding the phial for some time in the hand . FALLACIES OF STATISTICS . Archbishop Whately remarks upon the ...
Page 238
... temperature , or from hygromatic causes , may possess different refractive powers . It might happen from this cause , that the red rays at one extremity of the diameter , might totally destroy those at the opposite extremity of the ...
... temperature , or from hygromatic causes , may possess different refractive powers . It might happen from this cause , that the red rays at one extremity of the diameter , might totally destroy those at the opposite extremity of the ...
Page 253
... temperature . To this my observations do not allow me to assent . In order to obtain correct observations , the surface of the sea must be perfectly tranquil and smooth . There must not be a ripple on it . So essential is this point ...
... temperature . To this my observations do not allow me to assent . In order to obtain correct observations , the surface of the sea must be perfectly tranquil and smooth . There must not be a ripple on it . So essential is this point ...
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... temperature gave the shortest line of visibility . And at the point where the water was the warmest , there we saw ... temperature , there were great variations , which showed no direct cor- respondence between the temperature and the ...
... temperature gave the shortest line of visibility . And at the point where the water was the warmest , there we saw ... temperature , there were great variations , which showed no direct cor- respondence between the temperature and the ...
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Popular passages
Page 58 - In the midst of this sublime and terrible storm, Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing out the sea-water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused, Mrs. Partington's spirit was up; but I need not tell you that the contest was unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest.
Page 112 - Majesty, or to any person marrying a second time, whose husband or wife shall have been continually absent from such person for the space of seven years then last past, and shall not have been knownby such person to be living within that time...
Page 58 - Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington on that occasion. In the winter of 1824, there set in a great flood upon that town ; the tide rose to an incredible height ; the waves rushed in upon the houses, and everything was threatened with destruction.
Page 266 - Swallows follow the flies and gnats, and flies and gnats usually delight in warm strata of air; and as warm air is lighter, and usually moister than cold air, when the warm strata of air are high, there is less chance of moisture being thrown down from them by the mixture with cold air; but when the warm and moist air is close to the surface, it is almost certain that, as the cold air flows down into it, a deposition of water will take place.
Page 116 - The True History of the State Prisoner, commonly called the Iron Mask...
Page 25 - On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation ; illustrating such work by all reasonable arguments ; as for instance the variety and formation of God's creatures in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms ; the effect of digestion, and thereby of conversion ; the construction of the hand of man, and an infinite variety of...
Page 55 - The southwest counties of Scotland have seldom corn enough to serve them round the year; and the northern parts producing more than they need, those in the west come in the summer to buy at Leith the stores that come from the north; and from a word, whiggam, used in driving their horses, all that drove were called the whiggamors, and shorter the whiggs.
Page 154 - Clive — but these are warriors, and perhaps you may think there are greater things than war — I do not : I worship the Lord of Hosts. But take the most illustrious achievements of civil prudence. Innocent III., the greatest of the popes, was the despot of Christendom at thirty-seven. John de Medici was a cardinal at fifteen, and, Guicciardini tells us, baffled with his statecraft Ferdinand of Arragon himself.
Page 153 - Lepanto at twentyfive — the greatest battle of modern time ; had it not been for the jealousy of Philip, the next year he would have been Emperor of Mauritania. Gaston de Foix was only twenty-two when he stood a victor on the plain of Ravenna. Every one remembers Conde
Page 78 - Hobson kept a stable of forty good cattle, always ready and fit for travelling ; but when a man came for a horse, he was led into the stable, where there was great choice, but he obliged him to take the horse which stood next to the stable door ; so that every customer was alike well served according to his chance ; and every horse ridden with the same justice ; from whence it became a proverb when what ought to be your election was forced upon you, to say, Hobson's choice.