Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts, Volumen 16,Número 136 -Volumen 18,Número 160William Chambers, Robert Chambers William and Robert Chambers, 1847 |
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... entered eagerly into the geological speculations then beginning to awaken interest , and collected traditions and ballads - all with equal enthusiasm . At home , during his hours of less robust health , he * Arago's Life of Watt ...
... entered eagerly into the geological speculations then beginning to awaken interest , and collected traditions and ballads - all with equal enthusiasm . At home , during his hours of less robust health , he * Arago's Life of Watt ...
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... entered on his nineteenth year , acquired and digested a vast mass of miscellaneous scientific information . Whether from the prevailing bent of his genius towards mechanical contrivance , or from some other cause connected with the ...
... entered on his nineteenth year , acquired and digested a vast mass of miscellaneous scientific information . Whether from the prevailing bent of his genius towards mechanical contrivance , or from some other cause connected with the ...
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... entering a boiler , then the steam rushing up the shaft and along the four spokes , would hiss out in four jets at the side openings , and the whole would , owing to the force of reaction , whirl round in the opposite direction . Here ...
... entering a boiler , then the steam rushing up the shaft and along the four spokes , would hiss out in four jets at the side openings , and the whole would , owing to the force of reaction , whirl round in the opposite direction . Here ...
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... entered into a partnership most fortunate for himself and for the world . This was with Mr Matthew Boulton of the Soho foundry near Birmingham - a gentleman of remarkable scientific abilities , of liberal disposition , and of unbounded ...
... entered into a partnership most fortunate for himself and for the world . This was with Mr Matthew Boulton of the Soho foundry near Birmingham - a gentleman of remarkable scientific abilities , of liberal disposition , and of unbounded ...
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... entered upon it when , in the year 1775 , after two years of widowhood , he married Miss Macgregor , the daughter of a rich Glasgow merchant . The first consequences of the introduction of Watt's improved steam - engine into practice ...
... entered upon it when , in the year 1775 , after two years of widowhood , he married Miss Macgregor , the daughter of a rich Glasgow merchant . The first consequences of the introduction of Watt's improved steam - engine into practice ...
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Página 9 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Página 28 - And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies ; A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle.
Página 11 - THE glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on Kings: Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Página 15 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Página 20 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial, endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me?
Página 6 - The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
Página 27 - Of those fierce darts Despair at me doth throw. 0 make in me those civil wars to cease: 1 will good tribute pay, if thou do so. Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed, A chamber deaf to noise and blind to light, A rosy garland and a weary head: And if these things, as being thine by right, Move not thy heavy grace, thou shalt in me, Livelier than elsewhere, Stella's image see.
Página 9 - Come, let us go while we are in our prime; And take the harmless folly of the time. We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the sun...