The Chemistry of Common Life, Volum 1W. Blackwood, 1854 - 654 pàgines |
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Pàgina 13
... plant to draw an abundant supply for all its wants from an atmosphere already adjusted to the constitution of living animals . * This constant action of the leaves of plants is one of the natural agencies by which the proportion of ...
... plant to draw an abundant supply for all its wants from an atmosphere already adjusted to the constitution of living animals . * This constant action of the leaves of plants is one of the natural agencies by which the proportion of ...
Pàgina 14
... plants , and finds admission to the lungs and general system of animals . There are , besides , other beautiful purposes which this moisture serves . When the summer sun has sunk beneath the horizon , and coolness revisits the scorched ...
... plants , and finds admission to the lungs and general system of animals . There are , besides , other beautiful purposes which this moisture serves . When the summer sun has sunk beneath the horizon , and coolness revisits the scorched ...
Pàgina 28
... plants contain these same elements in large pro- portion . In the dry wood of the tree , for example , and in the dry flesh and bone of the animal , both are present . Now , as the plant and animal increase in size , oxygen and hydro ...
... plants contain these same elements in large pro- portion . In the dry wood of the tree , for example , and in the dry flesh and bone of the animal , both are present . Now , as the plant and animal increase in size , oxygen and hydro ...
Pàgina 38
... plant will coagulate . The discovery of such a plant among the natural vegetation of the desert would give , therefore , the means of purifying and rendering it whole- some , as cuttings of the oak tree render salubrious the waters of ...
... plant will coagulate . The discovery of such a plant among the natural vegetation of the desert would give , therefore , the means of purifying and rendering it whole- some , as cuttings of the oak tree render salubrious the waters of ...
Pàgina 52
... plant refuses to grow . If they are present in too small quantity , the plant will be stunted and unhealthy . If the same kind of plant be grown for too long a time in the same soil , one or more of these substances will * Sulphuric ...
... plant refuses to grow . If they are present in too small quantity , the plant will be stunted and unhealthy . If the same kind of plant be grown for too long a time in the same soil , one or more of these substances will * Sulphuric ...
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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...