The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 41

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D. Appleton, 1892 - Science
 

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Page 565 - But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
Page 253 - SCHELLEN'S SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, in its application to Terrestrial Substances and the Physical Constitution of the Heavenly Bodies. Translated by JANE and C. LASSELL; edited, with Notes, by W. HUGGINS, LL.D. FRS With 13 Plates (6 coloured) and 223 Woodcuts. 8vo. price 28s. CELESTIAL OBJECTS for COMMON TELESCOPES.
Page 711 - Therefore since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavour to obtain good customs. Certainly custom is most perfect, when it beginneth in young years : this we call education, which is, in effect, but an early custom.
Page 455 - And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strewed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
Page 565 - The apostles were directed to go " into all the world and to preach the gospel to every creature," with the assurance that "he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved ;
Page 486 - England, and having not changed their nature in this, between them both they have kept men to their standcr hitherto, almost doubling the price of their commodities according to the rate they were sold for in England, and yet the plenty of leather is beyond what they had there, counting the number of the people ; but the transportation of boots and shoes into forraign parts hath vented all, however.
Page 104 - Its own means are superior to all the apparatus of your laboratories. Corvisart candidly agreed with me, that all your filthy mixtures are good for nothing. Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
Page 455 - Moses' anger burned hot, and he threw the tables out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.
Page 130 - Our trees; a popular account of the trees in the streets and gardens of Salem, and of the native trees of Essex county, Massachusetts, with the location of trees, and historical and botanical notes.
Page 23 - Yet in each soul is born the pleasure Of yearning onward, upward and away. When o'er our heads, lost in the vaulted azure. The lark sends down his flickering lay, When over crags and piny highlands The poising eagle slowly soars, And over plains and lakes and islands The crane sails by to other shores.

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