The Chemistry of Common Life, Volum 1W. Blackwood, 1854 - 654 pàgines |
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... remarkable extender of its boundaries - a leader in one of its most interesting and intricate departments - and an anxious diffuser of the results of general scientific research - I am certain of your sympathy in the following attempt ...
... remarkable extender of its boundaries - a leader in one of its most interesting and intricate departments - and an anxious diffuser of the results of general scientific research - I am certain of your sympathy in the following attempt ...
Pàgina 12
... remarkable natural example of an atmosphere overloaded with car- bonic acid gas is the famous Poison Valley in the island of Java , which is thus de- scribed by an eyewitness : - " We took with us two dogs and some fowls to try ...
... remarkable natural example of an atmosphere overloaded with car- bonic acid gas is the famous Poison Valley in the island of Java , which is thus de- scribed by an eyewitness : - " We took with us two dogs and some fowls to try ...
Pàgina 54
... remarkable but almost constant difference is discovered in their comparative composition . Besides the silica and alumina of which I have already spoken as exist- ing in clays , the granites contain a copious supply of potash and soda ...
... remarkable but almost constant difference is discovered in their comparative composition . Besides the silica and alumina of which I have already spoken as exist- ing in clays , the granites contain a copious supply of potash and soda ...
Pàgina 76
... remarkable products , to which I have already alluded as being useful in medicine and the arts , and as ministering to the luxuries and comfort of civilised life . In the production of these we recognise a destined and be- nevolent ...
... remarkable products , to which I have already alluded as being useful in medicine and the arts , and as ministering to the luxuries and comfort of civilised life . In the production of these we recognise a destined and be- nevolent ...
Pàgina 87
... remarkable similarity in composition , in some respects , which exists between the bran of wheat and the meal of the oat . Owing to a peculiar quality of the gluten which the oat contains , the meal of this grain does not admit of being ...
... remarkable similarity in composition , in some respects , which exists between the bran of wheat and the meal of the oat . Owing to a peculiar quality of the gluten which the oat contains , the meal of this grain does not admit of being ...
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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...