Science in Sport Made Philosophy in Earnest ; Being an Attempt to Illustrate Some Elementary Principles of Physical Knoweldge by Means of Toys and Pastimes. Edited by Robert Routledge1877 - 332 pages |
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... rest of the world . He was well read in the classics , and indeed was so devoted to ancient authors , that he seldom lost an oppor- tunity of quoting some favourite poet , and these quotations were generally apposite and sometimes even ...
... rest of the world . He was well read in the classics , and indeed was so devoted to ancient authors , that he seldom lost an oppor- tunity of quoting some favourite poet , and these quotations were generally apposite and sometimes even ...
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... rest of the morning to its fulfilment . ” At this moment the servant advanced , and announced the arrival of Mr. Goodenough . Tom and his sisters immediately ran forward to meet him . " My dear boy ! " exclaimed the vicar , " I am truly ...
... rest of the morning to its fulfilment . ” At this moment the servant advanced , and announced the arrival of Mr. Goodenough . Tom and his sisters immediately ran forward to meet him . " My dear boy ! " exclaimed the vicar , " I am truly ...
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... rest ; but you will understand this better afterwards . See , now the oscillations are not so large , and presently the needle will come to a standstill . " " Oh , yes , ” cried Tom ; " I know . It will settle so as tɔ point exactly ...
... rest ; but you will understand this better afterwards . See , now the oscillations are not so large , and presently the needle will come to a standstill . " " Oh , yes , ” cried Tom ; " I know . It will settle so as tɔ point exactly ...
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... rest to perceive that the magnetized needle must have the same kind of effect on the iron as the magnetized steel bar had . They quite understood now that the neighbourhood of the magnetic pole always induced a pole of the opposite name ...
... rest to perceive that the magnetized needle must have the same kind of effect on the iron as the magnetized steel bar had . They quite understood now that the neighbourhood of the magnetic pole always induced a pole of the opposite name ...
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... rest ; and thus he began his incan- tations . This ceremony lasted about an hour and a half , when there appeared several legions of devils , insomuch that the amphitheatre was quite filled with them . ' Cellini afterwards tells us ...
... rest ; and thus he began his incan- tations . This ceremony lasted about an hour and a half , when there appeared several legions of devils , insomuch that the amphitheatre was quite filled with them . ' Cellini afterwards tells us ...
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Page 223 - They parted - ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between; But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Page 97 - I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell ; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard, sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.
Page 84 - What might this be? A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
Page 114 - Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen fired another Troy ! Thus long ago, Ere heaving bellows learned to blow, While organs yet were mute, Timotheus, to his breathing flute And sounding lyre, Could swell the soul to rage or kindle soft desire.
Page 141 - Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state.
Page 243 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 151 - Newton generalized the law of attraction into a statement that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force which varies directly as the product of their masses and inversely as the square of the distance between them; and he thence deduced the law of attraction for spherical shells of constant density.
Page 219 - Rolls fair and placid : where collected all, In one impetuous torrent, down the steep It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, And from the loud-resounding rocks below Dash'd in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower.
Page 270 - My eyes are dim with childish tears. My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay : And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.
Page 254 - The first tyme that he, the prince, went to the towne of Sterling to meete the king, seeing a little without the gate of the towne a stack of corne, in proportion not unlike to a topp, wherewith he used to play, he said to some that were with him. ' Loe there is a goodly topp :' whereupon one of them saying, ' Why doe you not play with it then ?' he answered, ' Set it up for me, and I will play with it.