The Chemistry of Common Life, Volym 1W. Blackwood, 1854 - 654 sidor |
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Sida 35
... yield water for daily use . And , especially , it shows the necessity of bringing water from a distance for the supply of large cities . The neighbourhood of grave - yards is equally fitted , with the accumulation of town refuse , to ...
... yield water for daily use . And , especially , it shows the necessity of bringing water from a distance for the supply of large cities . The neighbourhood of grave - yards is equally fitted , with the accumulation of town refuse , to ...
Sida 42
... yields only sparingly , animals are few , and human inhabit- ants , as a general rule , but sparsely scattered . The soil is formed , for the most part , from the rocks of which the crust of the earth is composed . By the action of air ...
... yields only sparingly , animals are few , and human inhabit- ants , as a general rule , but sparsely scattered . The soil is formed , for the most part , from the rocks of which the crust of the earth is composed . By the action of air ...
Sida 46
... yield luxuriant harvests of golden grain to the industrious cul- tivator . But the earth's surface is varied with hill and valley , mountain and plain , so that the rains which fall are able to flow along the slopes , and to gather ...
... yield luxuriant harvests of golden grain to the industrious cul- tivator . But the earth's surface is varied with hill and valley , mountain and plain , so that the rains which fall are able to flow along the slopes , and to gather ...
Sida 49
... yield no water , and super- ficial pits , to receive and retain the rain water , are the main resource of the inhabitants . This , with the thin soils and short grass of our chalk downs , has long determined the con- version of the ...
... yield no water , and super- ficial pits , to receive and retain the rain water , are the main resource of the inhabitants . This , with the thin soils and short grass of our chalk downs , has long determined the con- version of the ...
Sida 51
... yield , and of the crops they can readily be made to grow . 5 ° . And lastly , how dismal peaty swamps disguise the ... yields remunerative returns , and then ceases to give a profitable harvest . How are these changes to be explained ...
... yield , and of the crops they can readily be made to grow . 5 ° . And lastly , how dismal peaty swamps disguise the ... yields remunerative returns , and then ceases to give a profitable harvest . How are these changes to be explained ...
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Sida 317 - Holds such an enmity with blood of man That swift as quicksilver it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body, And with a sudden vigour it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood...
Sida 37 - So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water. 23 And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.
Sida 352 - ... the world within me ! That my pains had vanished, was now a trifle in my eyes : — this negative effect was swallowed up in the immensity of those positive effects which had opened before me — in the abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea — a ^UMO-/ nviyStt for all human woes: here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered : happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket...
Sida 290 - Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? Who hath babbling? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes? "They that tarry long at the wine, they that go to seek mixed wine.
Sida 353 - ... in a waking moment. I made my way home as fast as possible, dreading at every step that I should commit some extravagance. In walking, I was hardly sensible of my feet touching the ground ; it seemed as if I slid along the street impelled by some invisible agent, and that my blood was composed of some ethereal fluid, which rendered my body lighter than air. I got to bed the moment I reached home. The most extraordinary visions of delight filled my brain all night. In the morning I rose pale and...
Sida 354 - Their gestures were frightful ; those who were completely under the influence of the opium talked incoherently; their features were flushed ; their eyes had an unnatural brilliancy, and the general expression of their countenances was horribly wild. The effect is usually produced in two hours, and lasts four or five. The dose varies from three grains to a drachm. The debility,boih moral and physical, attendant on its excitement, is terrible...
Sida 290 - Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Sida 298 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Sida 232 - Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.
Sida 358 - Think of me as of one, even when four months had passed, still agitated, writhing, throbbing, palpitating, shattered; and much, perhaps, in the situation of him who has been racked...