The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural History, and the Fine Arts, Volume 5Edward Mammatt Simpkin and Marshall, 1836 |
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... experiment of suspending a person by a rope from the summit of the cliff in which the eyry is placed . Several hair - breadth escapes , as well as fatal accidents , were narrated to us by individuals who had been engaged in these ...
... experiment of suspending a person by a rope from the summit of the cliff in which the eyry is placed . Several hair - breadth escapes , as well as fatal accidents , were narrated to us by individuals who had been engaged in these ...
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... off by simply wetting them . The same applies to many of the darker markings on the eggs of birds ; always unless there is a thin covering of shell over them try the experiment , for instance , with those 82 BRITISH OOLOGY . " HEWITSON'S.
... off by simply wetting them . The same applies to many of the darker markings on the eggs of birds ; always unless there is a thin covering of shell over them try the experiment , for instance , with those 82 BRITISH OOLOGY . " HEWITSON'S.
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... experiment , for instance , with those of a Lapwing . This curious species , the Locustelle , approaches , in many ways , to the Pipits and other ground birds , insomuch that the earlier natu- ralists styled it a Lark ; its hind claw is ...
... experiment , for instance , with those of a Lapwing . This curious species , the Locustelle , approaches , in many ways , to the Pipits and other ground birds , insomuch that the earlier natu- ralists styled it a Lark ; its hind claw is ...
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... experiments made by Mr. Rudder , of which a description is given in the 13th number of The Analyst . An experiment to ascertain the pressure of the sea , off the Isle of France , 8th May , 1826 , ship Florida : - 1. A glass globe ...
... experiments made by Mr. Rudder , of which a description is given in the 13th number of The Analyst . An experiment to ascertain the pressure of the sea , off the Isle of France , 8th May , 1826 , ship Florida : - 1. A glass globe ...
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... experiment , one hour . I remain , Sir , yours , & c . H. T. M. Chester , Sept. 12 , 1836 . BIRMINGHAM SOCIETY OF ARTS . EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BY THE OLD MASTERS . WE have had several such truly magnificent collections of pic- tures ...
... experiment , one hour . I remain , Sir , yours , & c . H. T. M. Chester , Sept. 12 , 1836 . BIRMINGHAM SOCIETY OF ARTS . EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BY THE OLD MASTERS . WE have had several such truly magnificent collections of pic- tures ...
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Página 69 - For, by the sacred radiance of the sun, The mysteries of Hecate, and the night ; By all the operations of the orbs, From whom we do exist, and cease to be...
Página 260 - Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet ; For every pelting, petty officer, Would use his heaven for thunder ; nothing but thunder.
Página 65 - What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.
Página 200 - Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most within me — could I wreak My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings, strong or weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe — into one word, And that one word were Lightning, I would speak ; But as it is, I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword.
Página 47 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Página 64 - gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! O fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely.
Página 266 - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, From beds of raging fire to starve in ice...
Página 66 - ... for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another, ideas, wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.
Página 261 - Though thy clime Be fickle, and thy year most part deformed, With dripping rains, or withered by a frost, I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies, And fields without a flower, for warmer France With all her vines ; nor for Ausonia's groves Of golden fruitage, and her myrtle bowers.
Página 59 - There's fennel for you, and columbines; there's rue for you; and here's some for me; we may call it herb of grace o' Sundays. O, you must wear your rue with a difference. There's a daisy; I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died.