The Chemistry of Common Life, Volum 1W. Blackwood, 1854 - 654 pàgines |
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Pàgina 6
... 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 to animal and vegetable life . Four substances , at least , are known to be ...
... 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 to animal and vegetable life . Four substances , at least , are known to be ...
Pàgina 16
... mean tempe- rature of the two ; but air of this mean temperature is in- capable of holding in suspension the mean quantity of watery vapour contained in the two currents . Hence , as on the mountain side , a cloud is formed , and the ...
... mean tempe- rature of the two ; but air of this mean temperature is in- capable of holding in suspension the mean quantity of watery vapour contained in the two currents . Hence , as on the mountain side , a cloud is formed , and the ...
Pàgina 19
... means of determin- ing ; but it has been ascertained by actual experiment that this acid is at least very frequently present in the air , even of European countries , and falling rain is sometimes actually sour from the quantity of ...
... means of determin- ing ; but it has been ascertained by actual experiment that this acid is at least very frequently present in the air , even of European countries , and falling rain is sometimes actually sour from the quantity of ...
Pàgina 23
... as cannot by any known means be resolved or split up into more than one : sulphur , phosphorus , gold , silver , iron , & c . , are examples of such simple substances . 24 also in common air , and has been described II THE WATER WE DRINK,
... as cannot by any known means be resolved or split up into more than one : sulphur , phosphorus , gold , silver , iron , & c . , are examples of such simple substances . 24 also in common air , and has been described II THE WATER WE DRINK,
Pàgina 38
... means of purifying and rendering it whole- some , as cuttings of the oak tree render salubrious the waters of the Landes of La Gironde . 5 ° . Water , also , absorbs or dissolves different kinds of air or gas in different proportions ...
... means of purifying and rendering it whole- some , as cuttings of the oak tree render salubrious the waters of the Landes of La Gironde . 5 ° . Water , also , absorbs or dissolves different kinds of air or gas in different proportions ...
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Passatges populars
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...