The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes, Volumen1Knight, 1830 - 427 páginas |
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... Electricity in the Library of Useful Knowledge , and the other works in which the prin- ciples of the science are formally expounded . The term electricity is derived from electron , the Greek name for amber , which was known , even in ...
... Electricity in the Library of Useful Knowledge , and the other works in which the prin- ciples of the science are formally expounded . The term electricity is derived from electron , the Greek name for amber , which was known , even in ...
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... Electricity , which , however , continued in its infancy for above a century , and could hardly , indeed , be said ... electric virtue , was considerably ex- tended . It was also found that the bodies which had been attracted by the ...
... Electricity , which , however , continued in its infancy for above a century , and could hardly , indeed , be said ... electric virtue , was considerably ex- tended . It was also found that the bodies which had been attracted by the ...
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... electricity for the accidental discovery of the possibility of accumulating large quantities of the electric fluid , by means of what was called the Leyden jar , or phial . M. Cuneus , of that city , hap- pened one day , while repeating ...
... electricity for the accidental discovery of the possibility of accumulating large quantities of the electric fluid , by means of what was called the Leyden jar , or phial . M. Cuneus , of that city , hap- pened one day , while repeating ...
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... electricity as the machine could give it , by receiving a sudden shock in his arms and breast , much more severe ... Electricity , vol . i . , or the Treatise on Electricity in the Library of Useful Knowledge . we should have formed a ...
... electricity as the machine could give it , by receiving a sudden shock in his arms and breast , much more severe ... Electricity , vol . i . , or the Treatise on Electricity in the Library of Useful Knowledge . we should have formed a ...
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... electric shock to what it really is , even when given in greater strength than it could have been by those early experimenters . It was this experiment , however , that first made electricity a subject of general curi- osity . Every ...
... electric shock to what it really is , even when given in greater strength than it could have been by those early experimenters . It was this experiment , however , that first made electricity a subject of general curi- osity . Every ...
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Página 23 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore: his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Página 307 - This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide.
Página 305 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Página 390 - The collection of Songs was my vade mecum. I pored over them, driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noting the true tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic craft, such as it is.
Página 227 - I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there.
Página 387 - ... who, as he was a happie imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it. His mind and hand went together; and what he thought, he uttered with that easinesse that wee have scarse received from him a blot in his papers.
Página 224 - ... and a glass of water, had the rest of the » time till their return for study, in which I made the greater progress, from that greater clearness of head and quicker apprehension which usually attend temperance in eating and drinking.
Página 307 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt. Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair. And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Página 223 - By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.
Página 228 - I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water; and, being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther.