 | 1853 - 584 pages
...the lens or capsule. A mere variation of shade does not alter the fixation of colour, and we imagine it does not require a very great stretch of the imagination to conceive a shade which, in contradistinction to white or grey, may be called black opacity. There is... | |
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1853 - 786 pages
...but yield to the wish to retrace them over. There were the very tombstones still standing, and it did not require a very great stretch of the imagination to picture the little girl before them. But ah ! one tombstone, since erected, excited particular attention — to... | |
 | Christian literature for children - 800 pages
...yield to the wish to retrace them over. tfhere were the very tombstones still standing, and it did not require a very great stretch of the imagination to picture the little girl before them. But ah ! one tombstone since erected, excited peculiar attention — to her... | |
 | American literature - 1885 - 980 pages
...instances of dreams suggesting plays, notably that of Madame de Girardin's La Joie fait Peur ; and it does not require a very great stretch of the imagination to conceive that the idea of dramatic representation might also have arisen in this way. Indeed, it can... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1881 - 462 pages
...phenomena in which similar difficulty would be felt. The phenomena of adhesion and cohesion are such that it does not require a very great stretch of the imagination to suppose that they may be but different phases of what we call chemical union. But to pass from such... | |
 | 1899 - 680 pages
...some day." Thus are the remarks of the mistress ostensibly in the behalf of the "poor hired girl," but it does not require a very great stretch of the imagination to conclude that they are made principally in her own behalf, with the view of getting as much service... | |
 | Astronomy - 1885 - 348 pages
...Sun's rays are more nearly vertical, and therefore the solar radiation has the greatest intensity. It does not require a very great stretch of the imagination to conceive these thunderstorms to result from the direct action of the Sun upon the Earth; and more especially... | |
 | 1895 - 606 pages
...markedly beneficial action of strychnine in this disease comes exclusively through the nervous system, it does not require a very great stretch of the imagination to perceive that the neurotic element plays a leading part in the etiology of pulmonary consumption."... | |
 | Medicine - 1896 - 844 pages
...markedly beneficial action of strychnine in this disease comes exclusively through the nervous system, it does not require, a very great stretch of the imagination to perceive that the neurotic element plays a leading part in the etiology of pulmonary consumption. INSTRUCTIONS... | |
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A mere variation of shade does not alter the fixation of color, and we imagine it does not require a very great stretch of the imagination to conceive a shade which, in contradistinction to white or grey, may be called black opacity. 
