The Popular Science Monthly, Volumen30D. Appleton, 1887 |
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... tion he found to be the tapping of the door of a wardrobe , and that , he ob- serves , could only be produced with an east - and - west oscillation . To repro- duce the tappings with the intensity and period that marked them during the ...
... tion he found to be the tapping of the door of a wardrobe , and that , he ob- serves , could only be produced with an east - and - west oscillation . To repro- duce the tappings with the intensity and period that marked them during the ...
Página 126
... tion giving the life of Sallust , observations on his style and syntax , and historical infor- mation respecting the kingdom of Numidia and the Jugurthine war , has been added ; and a convenient vocabulary saves the ne- cessity of ...
... tion giving the life of Sallust , observations on his style and syntax , and historical infor- mation respecting the kingdom of Numidia and the Jugurthine war , has been added ; and a convenient vocabulary saves the ne- cessity of ...
Página 127
... tion . The possibility of such increase by the poor has been enlarged but little , while the inclination of the rich therefor has been greatly restricted . Under such cir- cumstances , what wonder that production has run ahead of ...
... tion . The possibility of such increase by the poor has been enlarged but little , while the inclination of the rich therefor has been greatly restricted . Under such cir- cumstances , what wonder that production has run ahead of ...
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... tion with the Smithsonian Report for 1885 , and is abridged from a larger paper by Th . Thoroddsen . Although the volcanoes and hot springs of Iceland are treated of in a work written at about the middle of the thirteenth century , in ...
... tion with the Smithsonian Report for 1885 , and is abridged from a larger paper by Th . Thoroddsen . Although the volcanoes and hot springs of Iceland are treated of in a work written at about the middle of the thirteenth century , in ...
Página 133
... tion . The importance of studying from specimens , fresh and alive , using the book as an aid to that study , and not relying upon it alone , is insisted upon ; and the pupil is exhorted to go out , look at the animals where they live ...
... tion . The importance of studying from specimens , fresh and alive , using the book as an aid to that study , and not relying upon it alone , is insisted upon ; and the pupil is exhorted to go out , look at the animals where they live ...
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Página 327 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Página 449 - Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning, to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation, in whatever pursuit he may have singled out.
Página 372 - ... proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.
Página 388 - And Moses said, Eat that to-day; for to-day is a sabbath unto the Lord : to-day ye shall not find it in the field. Six days ye shall gather it ; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none.
Página 619 - Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.
Página 389 - And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
Página 445 - Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those brought up to tread therein.
Página 448 - ... draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. Asceticism of this sort is like the insurance which a man pays on his house and goods. The tax does him no good at the time, and possibly may never bring him a return. But if the fire does come, his having paid it will be his salvation from ruin. So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything...
Página 445 - For this we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous to us, as we should guard against the plague.
Página 665 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight?