The Chemistry of Common Life, Volum 1W. Blackwood, 1854 - 654 pàgines |
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Pàgina 5
... earth , and saline matters from the sea . THE earth we inhabit is surrounded by an atmosphere of air , the height of which is known to be at least forty - five miles . It presses upon the earth with a weight equal at the level of the ...
... earth , and saline matters from the sea . THE earth we inhabit is surrounded by an atmosphere of air , the height of which is known to be at least forty - five miles . It presses upon the earth with a weight equal at the level of the ...
Pàgina 6
... earth , and water . Yet , though apparently pure and elementary , it is by no means either a simple or pure substance . It is a mixture of several different kinds of matter , each of which performs a beautiful and wise part in relation ...
... earth , and water . Yet , though apparently pure and elementary , it is by no means either a simple or pure substance . It is a mixture of several different kinds of matter , each of which performs a beautiful and wise part in relation ...
Pàgina 10
... earth . But being heavier than common air , it appears singular that the proportion of this gas should increase as we ascend into the atmosphere . Its natural tendency would seem to be rather to sink towards the earth , and there to ...
... earth . But being heavier than common air , it appears singular that the proportion of this gas should increase as we ascend into the atmosphere . Its natural tendency would seem to be rather to sink towards the earth , and there to ...
Pàgina 11
... earth's atmosphere , neither light nor heat could be produced from coal , wood , or other combustible substances . But the proportion , also , in which oxygen exists in the air is adjusted to the existing condition of things . Did the ...
... earth's atmosphere , neither light nor heat could be produced from coal , wood , or other combustible substances . But the proportion , also , in which oxygen exists in the air is adjusted to the existing condition of things . Did the ...
Pàgina 12
... earth . But carbonic acid is poisonous to animals . It is for this reason that the proportion of this gas contained in the air is so very small . Were this proportion much greater than it is , animals , as they are now constituted ...
... earth . But carbonic acid is poisonous to animals . It is for this reason that the proportion of this gas contained in the air is so very small . Were this proportion much greater than it is , animals , as they are now constituted ...
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Pàgina 317 - Holds such an enmity with blood of man That swift as quicksilver it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body, And with a sudden vigour it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood...
Pàgina 37 - So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water. 23 And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.
Pàgina 352 - ... the world within me ! That my pains had vanished, was now a trifle in my eyes : — this negative effect was swallowed up in the immensity of those positive effects which had opened before me — in the abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea — a ^UMO-/ nviyStt for all human woes: here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered : happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket...
Pàgina 290 - Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? Who hath babbling? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes? "They that tarry long at the wine, they that go to seek mixed wine.
Pàgina 353 - ... in a waking moment. I made my way home as fast as possible, dreading at every step that I should commit some extravagance. In walking, I was hardly sensible of my feet touching the ground ; it seemed as if I slid along the street impelled by some invisible agent, and that my blood was composed of some ethereal fluid, which rendered my body lighter than air. I got to bed the moment I reached home. The most extraordinary visions of delight filled my brain all night. In the morning I rose pale and...
Pàgina 354 - Their gestures were frightful ; those who were completely under the influence of the opium talked incoherently; their features were flushed ; their eyes had an unnatural brilliancy, and the general expression of their countenances was horribly wild. The effect is usually produced in two hours, and lasts four or five. The dose varies from three grains to a drachm. The debility,boih moral and physical, attendant on its excitement, is terrible...
Pàgina 290 - Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Pàgina 298 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Pàgina 232 - Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.
Pàgina 358 - Think of me as of one, even when four months had passed, still agitated, writhing, throbbing, palpitating, shattered; and much, perhaps, in the situation of him who has been racked...