Glasgow Mechanics' Magazine, and Annals of Philosophy, Band 3W.R. M'Phun., 1825 |
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... tion is the Abbé Manese , whose work appeared in 1786. Though not the inventor , he was the first that recommended , in print , the method of preserving animals which we at present pursue . The princi- pal objection to his plan is ...
... tion is the Abbé Manese , whose work appeared in 1786. Though not the inventor , he was the first that recommended , in print , the method of preserving animals which we at present pursue . The princi- pal objection to his plan is ...
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... tion , however , is of such a questionable nature , that replying farther would be as unnecessary to your readers as it would be useless to him . I regret much to see Mr. Robert Hart place himself in such a situation ; for , if he ...
... tion , however , is of such a questionable nature , that replying farther would be as unnecessary to your readers as it would be useless to him . I regret much to see Mr. Robert Hart place himself in such a situation ; for , if he ...
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... tion of some of your Correspon- dents to the subject , and may lead to still farther improvements . I consider the mode of putting up and down shop window - boards , ( at present in use , ) to be attended with much inconvenience and ...
... tion of some of your Correspon- dents to the subject , and may lead to still farther improvements . I consider the mode of putting up and down shop window - boards , ( at present in use , ) to be attended with much inconvenience and ...
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... tion . be ELISHA DE BUTTS . Preservation of the Skins of Quadrupeds . * HAVING skinned the animal , and * Owing to an important error in our last , some repetition is here necessary . Errata : Page 7 , line 31 , for foramen magnunteral ...
... tion . be ELISHA DE BUTTS . Preservation of the Skins of Quadrupeds . * HAVING skinned the animal , and * Owing to an important error in our last , some repetition is here necessary . Errata : Page 7 , line 31 , for foramen magnunteral ...
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... tion with the previous smelting . This would lead to the erection of the finery - furnace , where the crude iron goes through the process of decarbonization , from which it is taken to the puddling - furnace , where this process is ...
... tion with the previous smelting . This would lead to the erection of the finery - furnace , where the crude iron goes through the process of decarbonization , from which it is taken to the puddling - furnace , where this process is ...
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Seite 39 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Seite 316 - But a just story of learning, containing the antiquities and originals of knowledges and their sects, their inventions, their traditions, their diverse administrations and managings, their flourishings, their oppositions, decays, depressions, oblivions, removes, with the causes and occasions of them, and all other events concerning learning, throughout the ages of the world, I may truly affirm to be wanting.
Seite 311 - From these and all long errors of the way, In which our wandering predecessors went, And, like th' old Hebrews, many years did stray, In deserts but of small extent, Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last : The barren wilderness he past ; Did on the very border stand Of the blest promis'd land ; And from the mountain's top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and shew'd us it.
Seite 317 - comprehensive " understanding. This wide ranging intellect was illuminated by the brightest Fancy that ever contented itself with the office of only ministering to Reason ; and from this singular relation of the two grand faculties of man, it has resulted, that his philosophy, though illustrated still more than adorned by the utmost splendour of imagery, continues still subject to the undivided supremacy of Intellect. In the midst of all the prodigality of an imagination which, had it been independent,...
Seite 343 - The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Seite 319 - It may be read from beginning to end in a few hours ; and yet after the twentieth perusal one seldom fails to remark in it something overlooked before. This, indeed, is a characteristic of all Bacon's writings, and is only to be accounted for by the inexhaustible aliment they furnish to our own thoughts and the sympathetic activity they impart to our torpid faculties.
Seite 317 - It is easy to describe his transcendent merit in general terms of commendation ; for some of his great qualities lie on the surface of his writings. But that in which he most excelled all other men was in the range and compass of his intellectual view — the power of contemplating many and distant objects together, without indistinctness or confusion — which he himself has called the discursive or comprehensive understanding.
Seite 256 - ... the concave taken out at the other end, which extendeth to about the middle of this erected tent, through which the visible radiations of all the objects without are intromitted, falling upon a paper, which is accommodated to receive them ; and so he traceth them with his pen in their natural appearance, turning his little tent round by degrees, till he hath designed the whole aspect of the field.
Seite 22 - ... and put it under a sitting fowl. At the expiration of a certain number of days, they break the shell in water warmed by the sun. The young fry are presently hatched, and are kept in pure fresh water till they are large enough to be thrown into a pond with the old fish.
Seite 131 - Bristol [1838?]. 8°. Cleland (J.) Historical account of the steam engine and its application in propelling vessels: with an account of the number and uses of the steam engines in Glasgow, and number of steam boats on the Clyde, in the years 1825 and 1829; population and statistical tables, births, marriages, and burials. Glasgow: E. Khull &> Son, 1820. I pl, 68 p., I 1. 8°.