The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 40D. Appleton, 1892 - Science |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 61
Page 40
... colors . " A similar statement has been made to Mr. Parkinson's reviewer in the Athenæum , who suggests that such visions may be misinterpreted facts , not mere mental illusions . The birds called ruffs dance in the moonlight much after ...
... colors . " A similar statement has been made to Mr. Parkinson's reviewer in the Athenæum , who suggests that such visions may be misinterpreted facts , not mere mental illusions . The birds called ruffs dance in the moonlight much after ...
Page 47
... color white spotted with blue , is added ; then follows another inch and a half of black beads ; then comes a cluster of leopards ' teeth three to five in number ; this arrangement is repeated . The other necklace copies this in general ...
... color white spotted with blue , is added ; then follows another inch and a half of black beads ; then comes a cluster of leopards ' teeth three to five in number ; this arrangement is repeated . The other necklace copies this in general ...
Page 49
... colors and graceful in form . The New Zealander made an elegant head - dress of pelican feathers , arranged in white bunches as wings on each side of the head , meeting above . The " war - bon- nets " of eagle feathers , and the single ...
... colors and graceful in form . The New Zealander made an elegant head - dress of pelican feathers , arranged in white bunches as wings on each side of the head , meeting above . The " war - bon- nets " of eagle feathers , and the single ...
Page 61
... is there that new fibers may supplement or even replace those which we spin and weave , that woven fabrics may take on new vegetable colors , that flowers and leaves may yield new perfumes and flavors ? POSSIBILITIES OF ECONOMIC BOTANY .
... is there that new fibers may supplement or even replace those which we spin and weave , that woven fabrics may take on new vegetable colors , that flowers and leaves may yield new perfumes and flavors ? POSSIBILITIES OF ECONOMIC BOTANY .
Page 72
... color and even in flavor ; being exceedingly acid , almost unpalata- ble , until they are bitten by frost of autumn , when they are sweetened and their flavor delicious , having to the taste much the character of grapes , and I am ...
... color and even in flavor ; being exceedingly acid , almost unpalata- ble , until they are bitten by frost of autumn , when they are sweetened and their flavor delicious , having to the taste much the character of grapes , and I am ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
American animal appears astronomical astronomy bacteria Bartram Bessemer process birds body Boston Brazil cable railways carbonic acid census cent century Ceramic Art chemical chemistry Church cities coccyx color Copernican Copernicus cultivated earth electric England Europe experiments fact feet Galileo give given hand hundred idea illustrated improved increase instrument interest island John Bartram known labor lava lecture machine manufacture matter means ment method miles milk mountain movement musk ox natural observations organ original ornament paper peneplain period persons Philadelphia piano plants poisons population Port Royal pottery practical present produced Prof question region relations rocks scientific Society species square miles tail teach teachers theory thousand tion University usury ware whole York
Popular passages
Page 443 - The property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
Page 205 - And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
Page 438 - No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or disseised, or outlawed, or banished, or any ways destroyed, nor will we pass upon him, nor will we send upon him, unless by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Page 205 - And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee, in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
Page 52 - Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.
Page 455 - States, and dedicated and set apart as a public park or pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people...
Page 587 - ... wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.
Page 205 - And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin ; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you...
Page 435 - The liberty mentioned in that amendment means not only the right of the citizen to be free from the mere physical restraint of his person, as by incarceration, but the term is deemed to embrace the right of the citizen to be free in the enjoyment of all his faculties; to be free to use them in all lawful ways ; to live and work where he will ; to earn his livelihood by any lawful calling ; to pursue any livelihood or avocation, and for that purpose to enter into all contracts which may be proper,...
Page 203 - Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them...