...slow combustion at 43°, and potassium at still lower temperatures. CHAPTER IV. Capillary Attraction, That very law which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle...a sphere, And guides the planets in their course. ROGERS. CONSIDERED in all its relations and bearings, capillary attraction is one of the most important...

...theme, In every clime, in every age ; Thou charm'st in Fancy's idle dream, In Reason's philosophic page. That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle...a sphere, And guides the planets in their course. TO A VOICE THAT HAD BEEN LOST. Vane, quid affectas faciem mihi ponere, pictor ? Aeris et linguee sum...

...compose our globe, as in the vast aggregations of matter which comprise the architecture of the heavens ! That very law which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle...earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course ! These simple properties, however, are all the result of combination, or of the relation of parts...

...theme, In every clime, in every age ; Thou charm'st in Fancy's idle dream, In Reason's philosophic page. That very law* which moulds a tear. And bids it trickle...a sphere, And guides the planets in their course. TO A VOICE THAT HAD BEEN LOST. Vane, quid aflectas faciem mihi ponere, pictor ! Aeris et lingute sum...

...theme, In every clime, in every age ; Thou charmest in Fancy's idle dream, In reason's philosophic page. That very law which moulds a tear', And bids it trickle...a sphere, And guides the planets in their course. THOMAS CAMPBELL Is the most classical of our living poets; he carries his love of refinement to an...

...same kind ae that with which we are already familiar in the fall of the apple from the tree : — " That very law which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle...a sphere, And guides the planets in their course." Now the defect of Locke's philosophy in this respect is, that, by representing a complex idea merely...

...theme, In every clime, in every age ; Thou charm'st in Fancy's idle dream, In Reason's philosophic page. ' ' Sigh no more, lady, sigh no more, ' \^ • Men... "J 1844 William and Robert Chambers"% Chambers WILLIAM 4VORDSWORTH. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, the greatest of metaphysical poets, is a native of Cockermoutli,...

...charm'st in Fancy's idle dream, In Reason's philosophic page. That very law which moulds a tear, And bide flower-like ; Friendship is a sheltering tree ; 0! planeta in their course. « П.1.1Л ч WORDSWORTH. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, the greatest of metaphysical...

...value them as convincing evidences of the wise controul of a beneficent Providence. The very law that moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law maintains the world a sphere, And guides the planets in their course. May we not also find that when...

...theme, In every clime, in every age ; Thou charm'st in Fancy's idle dream, In Reason's philosophic page. That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle...a sphere, And guides the planets in their course. * The law of gravitation. WRITTEN IN A SICK CHAMBER. 1793. THERE, in that bed so closely curtained...