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... experiment , or that deduced by analytical reasoning . It shows the early charm of " the land where nature is rich , while tools and appliances are few , while of tradi- tions there are none . " With this , no doubt , is associated the ...
... experiment , or that deduced by analytical reasoning . It shows the early charm of " the land where nature is rich , while tools and appliances are few , while of tradi- tions there are none . " With this , no doubt , is associated the ...
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... experiments with materials furnished at the expense of the public . But in grinding together the ingredients of the powder for his home- made rockets , the mixture exploded , severely burning his face and breast and temporarily ...
... experiments with materials furnished at the expense of the public . But in grinding together the ingredients of the powder for his home- made rockets , the mixture exploded , severely burning his face and breast and temporarily ...
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... experimental philosophy at Harvard College , and every day he and his friend Baldwin walked eight miles from Woburn to Cam- bridge , and on their return repeated the experiments in mechanics and electricity with apparatus of their own ...
... experimental philosophy at Harvard College , and every day he and his friend Baldwin walked eight miles from Woburn to Cam- bridge , and on their return repeated the experiments in mechanics and electricity with apparatus of their own ...
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... experiments in England were mostly directed to the problems of external ballistics , especially to the determina- tion of the velocity of the projectile under different charges and kinds of powders and methods of firing . For this ...
... experiments in England were mostly directed to the problems of external ballistics , especially to the determina- tion of the velocity of the projectile under different charges and kinds of powders and methods of firing . For this ...
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... experiments , and particularly by firing a greater number of bullets at once from their heavy guns than had ever ... experiments on cohesion . These experiments introduced him to Sir Joseph Banks , President of the Royal Society , with ...
... experiments , and particularly by firing a greater number of bullets at once from their heavy guns than had ever ... experiments on cohesion . These experiments introduced him to Sir Joseph Banks , President of the Royal Society , with ...
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Page 159 - And Nature, the old nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying: "Here is a story-book Thy Father has written for thee." "Come wander with me," she said, "Into regions yet untrod, And read what is still unread.
Page 160 - Thy Father has written for thee." "Come, wander with me," she said, ' ' Into regions yet untrod; And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God." And he wandered away and away With Nature, the dear old nurse, Who sang to him night and day The rhymes of the universe. And whenever the way seemed long, Or his heart began to fail, She would sing a more wonderful song, Or tell a more marvellous tale.
Page 43 - British empire, a public institution for diffusing the knowledge and facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements, and for teaching, by courses of philosophical lectures and experiments, the application of science to the common purposes of life.
Page 165 - Even the careless heart was moved, And the doubting gave assent, With a gesture reverent, To the Master well-beloved. As thin mists are glorified By the light they cannot hide, All who gazed upon him saw, Through its veil of tender awe, How his face was still uplit By the old sweet look of it. Hopeful, trustful, full of cheer, And the love that casts out fear. Who the secret may declare Of that brief, unuttered prayer ? Did the shade before him come Of th...
Page 250 - WILL, while we have no knowledge of any other primary cause of force, it does not seem an improbable conclusion that all force may be will-force ; and thus, that the whole universe is not merely dependent on, but actually is, the WILL of higher intelligences or of one Supreme Intelligence.
Page 24 - By meditating on the results of all these experiments, we are naturally brought to that great question which has so often been the subject of speculation among philosophers, namely, What is heat — is there any such thing as an igneous fluid ? Is there anything that...
Page 30 - To make vicious and abandoned people happy, it has generally been supposed necessary, first, to make them virtuous. But why not reverse this order ? Why not make them first happy and then virtuous?
Page 204 - Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise.
Page 160 - At the other end of the table sat Agassiz, robust, sanguine, animated, full of talk, boy-like in his laughter. The stranger who should have asked who were the men ranged along the sides of the table would have heard in answer the names of Hawthorne, Motley, Dana, Lowell, Whipple, Peirce, the distinguished mathematician, Judge Hoar, eminent at the bar and in the cabinet, Dwight, the leading musical critic of Boston for a whole generation, Sumner, the academic champion of freedom, Andrew, "the great...
Page 253 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.