The Literary and Scientific Class Book: Embracing the Leading Facts and Principles of Science with Many Difficult Words Explained at the Heads of the Lessons, and Questions Annexed for Examination. Selected from the Rev. John Platts' Literary and Scientific Class Book, and from Various Other Sources |
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... may be divided and separated from each other ; and of this division there can be no end . We can never conceive of a particle of matter so small as not to have an upper and under GENERAL PROPERTIES OF BODIES . 29 surface , which might.
... may be divided and separated from each other ; and of this division there can be no end . We can never conceive of a particle of matter so small as not to have an upper and under GENERAL PROPERTIES OF BODIES . 29 surface , which might.
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... surface , which might be separated , if we had instruments fine enough for the purpose . A grain of gold may be ham- mered by the gold - beaters to such a degree of fineness , that the two millionth part of it may be seen by the naked ...
... surface , which might be separated , if we had instruments fine enough for the purpose . A grain of gold may be ham- mered by the gold - beaters to such a degree of fineness , that the two millionth part of it may be seen by the naked ...
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... surface , that it forces every body , which is not supported , to fall upon it . The following simple incident led to the most extensive and complicated calculations , and was productive of the most noble and won- derful discoveries ...
... surface , that it forces every body , which is not supported , to fall upon it . The following simple incident led to the most extensive and complicated calculations , and was productive of the most noble and won- derful discoveries ...
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... surface are drawn to its centre by the force of gravity ; and more powerfully as the square of their distance is less . Hence , if one portion of the earth's surface be farther from its centre than another , the force of gravity on a ...
... surface are drawn to its centre by the force of gravity ; and more powerfully as the square of their distance is less . Hence , if one portion of the earth's surface be farther from its centre than another , the force of gravity on a ...
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... surfaces , or on gently inclining planes , with little friction , and without obstructions , are fast spreading over the face of the country . QUESTIONS . - 1 . How is the pulley formed ? 2. What are the two kinds of pullies ? 3. What ...
... surfaces , or on gently inclining planes , with little friction , and without obstructions , are fast spreading over the face of the country . QUESTIONS . - 1 . How is the pulley formed ? 2. What are the two kinds of pullies ? 3. What ...
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Page 228 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 156 - Soft roll your incense, herbs, and fruits, and flowers, In mingled clouds to Him, whose sun exalts, • Whose breath perfumes you, -and whose pencil paints.
Page ii - District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " THE CHILD'S BOTANY," In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Page 228 - A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession.
Page 230 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent. Then THY sun...
Page 61 - O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or, mirrored in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties seem. As when the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam. For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds thy span • Nor lets the type grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man.
Page 88 - ... gaze, And steers, undoubting, to the friendly coast ; And they who stray in perilous wastes, by night, Are glad when thou dost shine to guide their footsteps right. And, therefore, bards of old, Sages, and hermits of the solemn wood, Did in thy beams behold A beauteous type of that unchanging good, That bright eternal beacon, by whose ray The voyager of time should shape his heedful way.
Page 20 - The world is full of poetry — the air Is living with its spirit ; and the waves Dance to the music of its melodies, And sparkle in its brightness. Earth is veiled, And mantled with its beauty; and the walls That close the universe with crystal in, Are eloquent with voices, that proclaim The unseen glories of immensity, In harmonies, too perfect, and too high, For aught but beings of celestial mould, And speak to man in one eternal hymn, Unfading beauty, and unyielding power.
Page 211 - As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain...
Page 68 - Horrid with frost and turbulent with storm, Blows autumn, and his golden fruits, away : Then melts into the spring : soft spring, with breath Favonian, from warm chambers of the south, Recalls the first.