The Parlour Book, Or, Familiar Conversations on Science and the Arts: For the Use of Schools and FamiliesDarton and Clark, 1835 - 274 Seiten |
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Seite 167 - Very thin coat of white ashes, which frequently adhere to it when it has been some time ignited ; and it had a degree of brightness, about as strong as that with which such a coal would be seen to glow in faint day-light.
Seite 100 - This is extraordinary. How do they do it by hand, father?" " The operation is performed by women. If a person wants a quantity of corn ground, he gives notice, and twenty or thirty women are soon at his door, each with a pair of stones, which they carry with them. One is fixed to the ground, and the top stone has a handle on opposite sides. A woman takes hold of each handle, and the stone is rapidly turned, and the corn is ground. This is one of the most ancient practices among eastern nations, and...
Seite 60 - O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children- together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, but ye would not! Behold your house is left unto you desolate.
Seite 259 - ... observed in the polype, they certainly have some knowledge of the approach of their prey, and show the greatest attention to it as soon as it comes near them. It seizes a worm the moment it is touched by one of the arms; and in conveying it to the mouth, it frequently twists the arm into a spiral like a cork-screw, by which means the insect is brought to the mouth in a much shorter time than otherwise it would be ; and so soon are the insects on which the polypes feed killed by them, that M.
Seite 259 - ... within the circumference. While the animal is contracted by seizing its prey, the arms are observed to swell like the muscles of the human body when in action. Though no appearance of eyes can be observed in the polype, they certainly have some knowledge of the approach of their prey, and shew the greatest attention to it as soon as it comes near them.
Seite 70 - THE MAN AND HIS COAT A MAN beat his Coat Now and then with a cane ; And, astonished, one morning, He heard it complain: "Ungratefully treated! My fortune is hard ! To beat me, dear Master! Is this my reward?
Seite 115 - G, ground perfectly flat, and also a brass tube, let into the wood communicating with the two cylinders and the cock, I, and opening into the centre of the brass plate at a. The glass vessel, K, to be emptied or exhausted of air...
Seite 88 - ... centre of the upper mill-stone is a hole through which the corn runs to get between the stones. The velocity with which the upper stone turns, as well as the slope of the lower stone, throws the corn from the centre towards the circumference, where, as the distance between the stones is less, it gets broken or ground, and escapes in the form of meal at the outer edge, and falls through the funnel into the bin. "And how much corn is put into the hopper at a time ?" said Robert.
Seite 163 - ... most magnificent habitable globe, surrounded by a double set of clouds. Those which are nearest its opaque body are less bright, and more closely connected together, than those of the upper stratum, which form the luminous apparent globe we behold. This luminous external matter...
Seite 70 - Are like dust, or slight stains, On a beautiful dress : A little exertion Will soon work a cure, And will make both more lovely, More worthy, more pure." Though this Fable is good, Yet I never will blush, To say, / prefer dusting My COAT with a brush. To most of my readers, I need not explain, Advice is the brush I prefer to the cane.