| David Brewster - 1841 - 432 pagine
...metals, gave birth to all those discoveries which have, in our own day, rendered this branch of knowledge one of the most interesting, as well as one of the most perfect, of the physical sciences. In order to explain this and the other discoveries of Malus, let... | |
| 1843 - 600 pagine
...and cannot bestow. The history of the human mind, in its progress and atchievements is, therefore, one of the most interesting as well as one of the most fruitful of studies. The scholar loves to dwell upon it — and even to the general reader it possesses... | |
| 1844 - 688 pagine
...the beautiful range of the Mahabuleshwar, whose climate and scenery render the station formed there one of the most interesting as well as one of the most sanitary localities in Western India. There are no two questions more commonly asked among us, at certain... | |
| Joachim Hayward Stocqueler - 1848 - 372 pagine
...the beautiful range of the Mahabuleshwar, whose climate and scenery render the station formed there one of the most interesting as well as one of the most sanitary localities in West • ern India. The bungalows on the Mahabuleshwar are built irregularly... | |
| Archibald Tucker Ritchie - 1850 - 678 pagine
...metals, gave birth to all those discoveries which have, in our own day, rendered this branch of knowledge one of the most interesting, as well as one of the most perfect of the physical sciences."* Sir John Herschel may be said to have summed up the evidence regarding... | |
| Morning call - 1850 - 624 pagine
...have not really saved the nation. What this something will prove to be has become at the present time one of the most interesting, as well as one of the most important, subjects for inquiry. Certain it seems that we may cover the face of the country with churches... | |
| James Bryce - 1852 - 630 pagine
...Schools of our country were instituted; but now it has attained the importance and dignity of being one of the most interesting, as well as one of the most useful of all the sciences. It is found to be of almost universal application, there being few phenomena... | |
| 1854 - 428 pagine
...May he live many years yet to add to the many labours he has already so well performed. THE SILKWORM. ONE of the most interesting as well as one of the most useful insects, is the silkworm. Though short-lived and insignificant, it assists to clothe the affluent... | |
| David Laing - 1854 - 208 pagine
...man as made in His own image; and to gather up these scattered fragments, and to see their unity, is one of the most interesting, as well as one of the most assuring, employments, which man can have. It is easily done, if any seek to awaken his mind to the... | |
| Chambers's journal - 1885 - 884 pagine
...contributed not a little to the desired result, seldom, if ever, gets a ' Thank you ' from anybody. One of the most interesting as well as one of the most important of stage-trades is that of wig-making. 'There is room,' said a contemporary recently, ' for... | |
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