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Pagina 29
... Italian predecessors , and how far he made original experiments of his own , that both his relation to them and his own work stand clearly apparent . It had been found by the engineers engaged in the construction of fountains for Cosmo ...
... Italian predecessors , and how far he made original experiments of his own , that both his relation to them and his own work stand clearly apparent . It had been found by the engineers engaged in the construction of fountains for Cosmo ...
Pagina 31
... Italy ; and not con- tent with this , he added in express words , in an " avis au lecteur , " that he " was not the inventor of the original experiment , but that it had been made in Italy four years before . " So little , indeed , did ...
... Italy ; and not con- tent with this , he added in express words , in an " avis au lecteur , " that he " was not the inventor of the original experiment , but that it had been made in Italy four years before . " So little , indeed , did ...
Pagina 32
John Tulloch. planation which the Italian had suggested of the phe- nomenon so fully established . He saw , of course , that the old maxim of Nature abhorring a vacuum had no solid foundation ; but he tried to account for the vacuum ...
John Tulloch. planation which the Italian had suggested of the phe- nomenon so fully established . He saw , of course , that the old maxim of Nature abhorring a vacuum had no solid foundation ; but he tried to account for the vacuum ...
Pagina 36
... Italian predecessors on the other . He completed what they had begun , and verified what they had indicated . As the Abbé Bossut has expressed it , Galileo proved that air was a heavy fluid ; Torricelli conceived that its weight was the ...
... Italian predecessors on the other . He completed what they had begun , and verified what they had indicated . As the Abbé Bossut has expressed it , Galileo proved that air was a heavy fluid ; Torricelli conceived that its weight was the ...
Pagina 37
... Italian experiments were known in France from the year 1644 ; that they were repeated in France by several persons ... Italy four years before , he did not then know that the experimenter was Torricelli ; but that so soon as he learned ...
... Italian experiments were known in France from the year 1644 ; that they were repeated in France by several persons ... Italy four years before , he did not then know that the experimenter was Torricelli ; but that so soon as he learned ...
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Pagina 92 - Dieu de Jésus-Christ Deum meum et Deum vestrum. Ton Dieu sera mon Dieu— Oubli du monde et de tout hormis Dieu. Il ne se trouve que par les voies enseignées dans l'Evangile. Grandeur de l'âme humaine. Père juste, le monde ne t'a point connu, mais je t'ai connu. Joie, joie, joie, pleurs de joie. Je m'en suis
Pagina 91 - joy, tears of joy. I am separated from Him They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water. My God, will you forsake me ? Oh, may I not be separated from Him eternally! This is life eternal, that, they know Thee the only true God, and Him whom Thou hast sent, J.-C. Jesus Christ Jesus Christ I
Pagina 91 - Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, Not of philosophers and of savants. Certitude. Certitude. Sentiment. Joy. Peace. God of Jesus Christ My God and your God. Thy God will be my God— Oblivion of the world and of all save God. He is found only by the ways taught in the Gospel. Grandeur of the human soul. Just Father,
Pagina 199 - If you win, you win everything; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that God exists. ... On one side is an eternity of life, of infinite blessedness to be gained, and what you stake is finite. . . . Our proposition is, that the finite is to
Pagina 92 - Mon Dieu me quitterez-vous ?Que je n'en sois pas séparé éternellement ! Cette est la vie éternelle qu'ils te connaissent seul vrai Dieu et celui que tu as envoyé, J.-C. Jésus Christ Jésus Christ Je m'en suis séparé ; je l'ai fui, renoncé, crucifié. Que je n'en sois jamais séparé ! Il ne se conserve que par les voies enseignées dans l'Evangile. Renonciation totale et douce, etc.
Pagina 91 - 1654. Lundi 23 nove"mbre, jour de St Clement, pape et martyr, et autres au martyrologe. Veille de St Chrysogone, martyr et autres. Depuis environ dix heures et demie du. soir jusques environ minuit et demi.
Pagina 10 - The exterior angle of a triangle is equal to the two interior and opposite angles ; and the three interior angles are together equal to two right angles.
Pagina 178 - He who would thoroughly know the vanity of men has only to consider the causes and effects of love. The cause is a je ne sais quoi, an indefinable trifle—the effects are monstrous. If the nose of Cleopatra had been a little shorter, it would have changed the history of the world.
Pagina 181 - The power of kings is founded on the reason and on the folly of the people, but chiefly on their folly. The greatest and most important thing in the world has weakness for its basis, and the basis is wonderfully secure, for there is nothing more certain than that people will be weak.