The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 2William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1860 - Electronic journals |
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... nature , of bodies which tend to decompose . There are several in the inorganic world : such are the fulminating powders ( iodide or chloride of nitrogen , for example ) , which explode upon a touch . There is a strong analogy between ...
... nature , of bodies which tend to decompose . There are several in the inorganic world : such are the fulminating powders ( iodide or chloride of nitrogen , for example ) , which explode upon a touch . There is a strong analogy between ...
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... nature as objects for their investigation . What would have been the most obvious character of these bodies ? Clearly their power of acting- of moving . This would have become familiar as a " property " or endow- ment of steam - engines ...
... nature as objects for their investigation . What would have been the most obvious character of these bodies ? Clearly their power of acting- of moving . This would have become familiar as a " property " or endow- ment of steam - engines ...
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... nature of the animal functions . It is compli- cated by the co - existence , with the functional activity , of many other and different processes . The body is at the same time growing and decaying ; it is nourished while it is dying ...
... nature of the animal functions . It is compli- cated by the co - existence , with the functional activity , of many other and different processes . The body is at the same time growing and decaying ; it is nourished while it is dying ...
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... nature . Fig . 2. c d A magnified view of the termination of the nerves of the forefinger of a child ( after Wagner ) , a Nerve- trunk running on the side of the finger . b Termination of branch of the same within a cellular expan- sion ...
... nature . Fig . 2. c d A magnified view of the termination of the nerves of the forefinger of a child ( after Wagner ) , a Nerve- trunk running on the side of the finger . b Termination of branch of the same within a cellular expan- sion ...
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... nature , and becomes to us an example of universal and familiar laws . One form of force acting as a resistance to another , and so accumulating a store of power , which operates on a structure adapted to direct it to given ends ; —this ...
... nature , and becomes to us an example of universal and familiar laws . One form of force acting as a resistance to another , and so accumulating a store of power , which operates on a structure adapted to direct it to given ends ; —this ...
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Page 458 - I should renounce the devil and all his works, the pomps and vanities of this wicked world, and all the sinful lusts of the flesh.
Page 400 - I consider it an indispensable duty to close this last act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, and those who have the superintendence of them to His holy keeping. Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action, and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.
Page 179 - This picture, placed these busts between, Gives satire all its strength : Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length.
Page 271 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Page 178 - Lepell) walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and we met no creature of any quality but the king, who gave audience to the vicechamberlain, all alone, under the garden wall.
Page 153 - The essential value and truth of Dickens's writings have been unwisely lost sight of by many thoughtful persons, merely because he presents his truth with some colour of caricature. Unwisely, because Dickens's caricature, though often gross, is never mistaken. Allowing for his manner of telling them, the things he tells us are always true.
Page 82 - WHAT was he doing, the great god Pan, Down in the reeds by the river? Spreading ruin and scattering ban, Splashing and paddling with hoofs of a goat, And breaking the golden lilies afloat • With the dragon-fly on the river? He tore out a reed, the great god Pan...
Page 384 - Duke of Cornwall and Rothsay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, and Great Steward of Scotland, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester. All the people at his birth thronged to see this lovely child ; and behind a gilt china-screen railing in St.
Page 256 - Napoleon to be but an episode, and George III is to be alive through all these varied changes, to accompany his people through all these revolutions of thought, government, society ; to survive out of the old world into ours. When I first saw England, she was in mourning for the young Princess Charlotte, the hope of the empire.