The Literary world, conducted by J. Timbs, Volume 3John Timbs 1840 |
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Pagina 9
... light yielded by a com- mon Argand burner . It consists in merely elevating the glass chimney so much above the usual level at which it stands in the burners in ordinary use , that its lower edge shall clear the upper edge of the ...
... light yielded by a com- mon Argand burner . It consists in merely elevating the glass chimney so much above the usual level at which it stands in the burners in ordinary use , that its lower edge shall clear the upper edge of the ...
Pagina 10
... light kindled without , as may be prepared for the reception of will , at last , glimmer through the very windows of the Corpus Common Room . The present race is quite hopeless ; though it includes many persons entitled to great respect ...
... light kindled without , as may be prepared for the reception of will , at last , glimmer through the very windows of the Corpus Common Room . The present race is quite hopeless ; though it includes many persons entitled to great respect ...
Pagina 11
... Light , and Dr. Ure's comparative ex- periments upon lamp and candle light . The novelties in stoves are not forgotten ; and several new researches on Caoutchouc are recorded . This division is unusually copious ; extending through ...
... Light , and Dr. Ure's comparative ex- periments upon lamp and candle light . The novelties in stoves are not forgotten ; and several new researches on Caoutchouc are recorded . This division is unusually copious ; extending through ...
Pagina 11
... Light , Heat , and Cold , Respiration and Vitality , Animal and Vegetable Physiology , are very attractive . Of results with the Daguerreotype , a pré- cis is introduced . The Electrical Science comprises de- scriptions of new batteries ...
... Light , Heat , and Cold , Respiration and Vitality , Animal and Vegetable Physiology , are very attractive . Of results with the Daguerreotype , a pré- cis is introduced . The Electrical Science comprises de- scriptions of new batteries ...
Pagina 12
... Light , and Dr. Ure's comparative ex- periments upon lamp and candle light . The novelties in stoves are not forgotten ; and several new researches on Caoutchouc are recorded . This division is unusually copious ; extending through ...
... Light , and Dr. Ure's comparative ex- periments upon lamp and candle light . The novelties in stoves are not forgotten ; and several new researches on Caoutchouc are recorded . This division is unusually copious ; extending through ...
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Pagina 200 - Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of; the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
Pagina 166 - LIKE to the falling of a star, Or as the flights of eagles are, Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue, Or silver drops of morning dew, Or like a wind that chafes the flood, Or bubbles which on water stood — Even such is man, whose borrow'd light Is straight call'd in, and paid to-night.
Pagina 110 - But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; and that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Pagina 165 - A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.
Pagina 159 - Tho' fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing They mock the air with idle state. Helm, nor hauberk's twisted mail, Nor e'en thy virtues, tyrant, shall avail To save thy secret soul from nightly fears, From Cambria's curse, from Cambria's tears!
Pagina 159 - Yes, there is a man in Westmoreland, And Johnny Armstrong they do him call." There, now, you plunge at once into the subject. You have no previous narration to lead you to it. The two next lines in that Ode are, I think, very good : "Though fann'd by conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state'.
Pagina 378 - If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them...
Pagina 337 - Bold and erect the Caledonian stood; Old was his mutton, and his claret good ; Let him drink port, the English statesman cried— He drank the poison, and his spirit died.
Pagina 268 - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, " Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou...
Pagina 49 - Well, madam, and you ought to be perpetually watching. It is more from carelessness about truth, than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.