The Modern Philosopher: Or Terrible Tractoration! In Four Cantos, Most Respectfully Addressed to the Royal College of Physicians, LondonFrom the Lorenzo Press of E. Bronson, 1806 - 271 pągines |
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Pągina vii
... never elevate water to a greater height than thirty - four feet . But my principal hopes of deriving benefit from this machine , consisted in its property of drawing water from a distance through pipes , ascending from the fountain to ...
... never elevate water to a greater height than thirty - four feet . But my principal hopes of deriving benefit from this machine , consisted in its property of drawing water from a distance through pipes , ascending from the fountain to ...
Pągina x
... never before seen . He informed me that he was the inventor of a new and curious machine for grinding corn and other useful purposes , for which he had obtained a patent . That sir William Staines , then mayor of London , was at the ...
... never before seen . He informed me that he was the inventor of a new and curious machine for grinding corn and other useful purposes , for which he had obtained a patent . That sir William Staines , then mayor of London , was at the ...
Pągina xi
... never should have . written a work calculated to give the tractors favourable notice , had I not fully believed in their efficacy . As con- ductors of animal electricity , and in principle allied to the Galvanick stimulants , even their ...
... never should have . written a work calculated to give the tractors favourable notice , had I not fully believed in their efficacy . As con- ductors of animal electricity , and in principle allied to the Galvanick stimulants , even their ...
Pągina xix
... never tried them . This last gentleman candidly acknowledges that he " played the part of a necromancer , " in his ridiculous pranks in ridicule of Perkinism . Next in order comes the writer of the article " PER- KINISM " in the ...
... never tried them . This last gentleman candidly acknowledges that he " played the part of a necromancer , " in his ridiculous pranks in ridicule of Perkinism . Next in order comes the writer of the article " PER- KINISM " in the ...
Pągina xxi
... never been given , but from that time the tractors were forbidden to be advertised for sale in that Review , with this pretence , on the part of the publishers , that they had just come to a deter- mination of admitting no more ...
... never been given , but from that time the tractors were forbidden to be advertised for sale in that Review , with this pretence , on the part of the publishers , that they had just come to a deter- mination of admitting no more ...
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Pągina 171 - If, in the third place, we look into the profession of physic, we shall find a most formidable body of men. The sight of them is enough to make a man serious, for we may lay it down as a maxim, that when a nation abounds in physicians, it grows thin of people. Sir William Temple is very much puzzled to find out a reason why the Northern Hive, as he calls it, does not send out such prodigious swarms, and overrun the world with Goths and Vandals, as it did formerly; but had that excellent author observed...
Pągina 216 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Pągina 14 - I lost all connection with external things; trains of vivid, visible Images rapidly passed through my mind, and were connected with words in such a manner as to produce perceptions perfectly novel. I existed in a world of newly connected and newly modified ideas.
Pągina 259 - A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at...
Pągina 38 - The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.
Pągina 94 - ... the turning of the new-formed globe upon its axis, and the greatest diameter of the shell would be in its equator. If. by any accident afterwards the axis should be changed...
Pągina 14 - I walked round the room perfectly regardless of what was said to me. As I recovered my former state of mind I felt an inclination to communicate the discoveries I had made during the experiment. I endeavored to recall the ideas ; they were feeble and indistinct.
Pągina 92 - I therefore imagined that the internal parts might be a fluid more dense, and of greater specific gravity than any of the solids we are acquainted with ; which therefore might swim in or upon that fluid. Thus the surface of the globe would be a shell, capable of being broken and disordered by the violent movements of the fluid on which it rested.
Pągina 93 - ... centre and rise till they arrived at that region of the air which was of the same specific gravity with themselves, where they would rest; while other matter, mixed with the lighter air would descend, and the two meeting would form the shell of the first earth, leaving the upper atmosphere nearly clear.
Pągina 34 - I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they may be recalled to life at any period, however distant...