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... vibrations of the particles from one part of the fluid mass to another , without any local motion of the fluid ... vibrate to and fro . Of exactly such a nature is the propagation of sound through the air . The particles of air go and ...
... vibrations of the particles from one part of the fluid mass to another , without any local motion of the fluid ... vibrate to and fro . Of exactly such a nature is the propagation of sound through the air . The particles of air go and ...
Page 78
... vibration , by which it is conveyed , travels at the same rate in all directions , and the waves which are propagated ... vibrations in spherical shells of succes- sive condensation and rarefaction , will easily be seen to be different ...
... vibration , by which it is conveyed , travels at the same rate in all directions , and the waves which are propagated ... vibrations in spherical shells of succes- sive condensation and rarefaction , will easily be seen to be different ...
Page 79
... vibration of the particles of air . The gravest scund has about eighty vibrations in a second , the most about one thousand . Between these limits each sound has a musical character , and from the different relations of the number of ...
... vibration of the particles of air . The gravest scund has about eighty vibrations in a second , the most about one thousand . Between these limits each sound has a musical character , and from the different relations of the number of ...
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... vibrations which a man produces in the atmos- phere , become some of his most important actions ; the foundations of the highest moral and social relations ; and the condition and instrument of all the advancement and im- provement of ...
... vibrations which a man produces in the atmos- phere , become some of his most important actions ; the foundations of the highest moral and social relations ; and the condition and instrument of all the advancement and im- provement of ...
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... vibrations , therefore , and their pro perties , we may at present allow to be a necessary part of the constitution of the atmosphere . But what is it that makes these vibrations to become sound ? How is it that they pro- duce such an ...
... vibrations , therefore , and their pro perties , we may at present allow to be a necessary part of the constitution of the atmosphere . But what is it that makes these vibrations to become sound ? How is it that they pro- duce such an ...
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Page 225 - Skill of a powerful ever-living Agent, who being in all Places, is more able by his Will to move the Bodies within his boundless uniform Sensorium, and thereby to form and reform the Parts of the Universe, than we are by our Will to move the Parts of our own Bodies.
Page 219 - For the handling of final causes, mixed with the rest in physical inquiries, hath intercepted the severe and diligent inquiry of all real and physical causes...
Page 198 - This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont to be called Lord God...
Page 71 - Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand. For Hot, Cold, Moist and Dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mastery...
Page 170 - The earth, the glob'ular body thus covered with life, is not the only globe in the universe. There are, circling about our own sun, six others, so far as we can judge, perfectly "analogous in their nature; besides our moon and other bodies analogous to it. No one can resist the temptation to "conjecture, that these globes, some of them much larger than our own, are not dead, and barren ; that they are, like ours, occupied with organization, life, intelligence. To conjecture, is all that we can do...
Page 22 - Sowers in February ; the primrose in the month of March ; the cowslip in April ; the great mass of plants in May and June ; many in July, August, and September ; some, not till the month of October, as the meadow saffron ; and some not till the approach and arrival of winter, as the laurustinus and arbutus.
Page 106 - ... and hence it is, that some of these apparent derangements have been going on in the same direction since the beginning of the history of the world. But the restoration is in the sequel as complete as the derangement; and in the meantime the disturbance never attains a sufficient amount seriously to alter the adaptations of the system.* The same examination of the subject by which this is proved, points out also the conditions on which this stability depends. "I have succeeded in demonstrating...
Page 112 - And thus might the sun and fixed stars be formed, supposing the matter were of a lucid nature. But how the matter should divide itself into two sorts, and that part of it which is fit to compose a shining body should fall down into one mass and make a sun and the rest which is fit to compose an...
Page 224 - ... action, must be present at all times and in all places where the effects of the law occur ; that thus the knowledge and the agency of the Divine Being pervade every portion of the universe, producing all action and passion, all permanence and change.
Page 107 - It is further remarkable, that in the newly-discovered planets, of which the orbits are still more eccentric than that of Mercury, the masses are still smaller, so that the same provision is established in this case, also.