The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and Instructive Articles on Scientific Subjects, Volume 2;Volume 17James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas Robert Hardwicke, 1878 |
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Pagina 285 - A Manual of Palaeontology, for the Use of Students. With a General Introduction on the Principles of Palaeontology.
Pagina 40 - But it is only within the last few years that it has been possible to realise something of the beauty and significance of this 'Altar of Peace.
Pagina 386 - said Carragh to the boy, ' as the two wolves usually enter the opposite extremities of the sheepfold at the same time, I must leave you and one of the dogs to guard this one while I go to the other. He steals with all the caution of a cat, nor will you hear him, but the dog will, and...
Pagina 145 - I repent as much as the man who slew his greyhound." The dog referred to belonged probably to the race called by Pennant " the Highland gre-hound," of great size and strength, deep-chested, and covered with long rough hair. This kind was much esteemed in former days, and was used for hunting by all the great chieftains in preference to any other. Boethius styles it " ;/enus venaticum cum celcrrimum tum audacissimum.
Pagina 385 - In the mountainous parts of the county Tyrone, the inhabitants suffered much from the wolves, and gave, from the public fund, as much for the head of one of these animals, as they would now give for the capture of a notorious robber on the highway. There lived in those days an adventurer, who, alone and unassisted, made it his occupation to destroy those ravagers. The time for attacking them was in the night, and midnight was...
Pagina 168 - And further, by these, my son, be admonished : of making many books there is no end ; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Pagina 156 - Either the gas, obeying^ the force of cohesion, liquefies, and yields its heat of condensation to the portion of gas which expands and loses itself in the gaseous form ; or, on the hypothesis that cohesion is not a general law, the gas must pass to the absolute zero and become inert, — that is to say, an impalpable powder. The work done by expansion will not be possible, and the loss of heat will be absolute.
Pagina 142 - The History and Antiquities of the Exchequer of the Kings of England, from the Norman Conquest to the end of the reign of Edward II.
Pagina 14 - ... arms, articulated at the shoulders, a head as entirely lost in the trunk as that of the ray or the sun-fish, and a long, angular tail.
Pagina 62 - No mere rotation of a bar-magnet on its axis produces any inductive effects on circuits exterior to it. The system of power about the magnet must not be considered as revolving with the magnet any more than the rays of light which emanate from the sun are supposed to revolve with the sun. The magnet may even, in certain cases, be considered as revolving amongst its own forces, and producing a full electric effect sensible at the galvanometer.