The Young Man's Evening Book: Embracing Sketches and Anecdotes in Natural History, Incidents of Travel, Biographical Sketches, Poetical Selections, and Other Subjects Suited to Interest and Instruct the Mind |
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... soon came into general use , under the name of Pulsilogies ; and it was not till after many years that it was employed as a general measure of time . It was probably after this discovery that Galileo began the study of mathematics ...
... soon came into general use , under the name of Pulsilogies ; and it was not till after many years that it was employed as a general measure of time . It was probably after this discovery that Galileo began the study of mathematics ...
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... Soon after his removal thither Galileo appears to have for the first time ventured upon openly teaching the Copernican sys- tem of the world , of the truth of which he had been many years before convinced . This bold step drew down upon ...
... Soon after his removal thither Galileo appears to have for the first time ventured upon openly teaching the Copernican sys- tem of the world , of the truth of which he had been many years before convinced . This bold step drew down upon ...
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... soon as the exhibition , which usually continues only a few minutes , has ended , he is again screened by his attendants till he has dismounted and taken the whole of his apparatus to pieces , when he produces only the stool , the brass ...
... soon as the exhibition , which usually continues only a few minutes , has ended , he is again screened by his attendants till he has dismounted and taken the whole of his apparatus to pieces , when he produces only the stool , the brass ...
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... soon recover . The expelled bees return as soon as the cavity is freed from smoke , without stinging a sin- gle individual , and the whole business is completed in less than ten minutes , without any perceptible loss . The honey is ...
... soon recover . The expelled bees return as soon as the cavity is freed from smoke , without stinging a sin- gle individual , and the whole business is completed in less than ten minutes , without any perceptible loss . The honey is ...
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... soon familiarising objects to us , that we seldom pause to think how they have had a commencement . Gas light is now as familiar to us as the light of the sun or moon . It even illumines cellars and recesses , where the rays of either ...
... soon familiarising objects to us , that we seldom pause to think how they have had a commencement . Gas light is now as familiar to us as the light of the sun or moon . It even illumines cellars and recesses , where the rays of either ...
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Page 50 - There's a dance of leaves in that aspen bower, There's a titter of winds in that beechen tree, There's a smile on the fruit and a smile on the flower, And a laugh from the brook that runs to the sea.
Page 104 - Beyond the flight of time, Beyond the reign of death, There surely is some blessed clime Where life is not a breath, Nor life's affections transient fire, Whose sparks fly upward and expire.
Page 230 - A thousand miles from land are we, Tossing about on the roaring sea , From billow to bounding billow cast, Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast : The sails are scattered abroad, like weeds, The strong masts shake, like quivering reeds, The mighty cables, and iron chains, The hull, which all earthly strength disdains, They strain and they crack, and hearts like stone Their natural hard proud strength disown. Up and down ! up and down ! From...
Page 294 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend. This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 50 - There are notes of joy from the hang-bird and wren, And the gossip of swallows through all the sky; The ground-squirrel gaily chirps by his den, And the wilding bee hums merrily by.
Page 99 - That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
Page 144 - Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. 2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3. Never spend your money before you have it. 4. Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap ; it will be dear to you.
Page 230 - And amidst the flashing and feathery foam The Stormy Petrel finds a home : A home, if such a place may be For her who lives on the wide, wide sea, On the craggy ice, in the frozen air, And only seeketh her rocky lair To warm her young and to teach them spring At once o'er the waves on their stormy wing.
Page 214 - Humboldt calculates that as thirty-three pounds of wheat and ninety-nine pounds of potatoes require the same space as that in which four thousand pounds of bananas...
Page 142 - We walked out together, and followed the rocky margins of the Kentucky River, until we reached a piece of flat land thickly covered with black walnuts, oaks and hickories. As the general mast was a good one that year, Squirrels were seen gamboling on every tree around us. My companion, a stout, hale, and athletic man, dressed in a homespun hunting-shirt, bare-legged and moccasined, carried a long and heavy rifle...