The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6Atlantic Monthly Company, 1860 |
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... original limits . Spherical vapor and atmospheric space give but a faint idea of its range . We find it a leading science in Physics , and having intimate relations with heat , light , electricity , mag- netism , winds , water ...
... original limits . Spherical vapor and atmospheric space give but a faint idea of its range . We find it a leading science in Physics , and having intimate relations with heat , light , electricity , mag- netism , winds , water ...
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... - Elasticity . However it may be compressed , air returns , on liberation , to its original vol- ume , and while thus perfectly elastic it is also the most compressible of bodies . This elasticity 1860. ] 3 Meteorology .
... - Elasticity . However it may be compressed , air returns , on liberation , to its original vol- ume , and while thus perfectly elastic it is also the most compressible of bodies . This elasticity 1860. ] 3 Meteorology .
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... original with our countryman , Mr. Redfield . Colonel Reid , Mr. Piddington , and other learn- ed Englishmen have adopted it ; and so much has been settled through the la- bors of these eminent men , that intel- ligent seamen need fear ...
... original with our countryman , Mr. Redfield . Colonel Reid , Mr. Piddington , and other learn- ed Englishmen have adopted it ; and so much has been settled through the la- bors of these eminent men , that intel- ligent seamen need fear ...
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... original type . The Germans call them Winds- baume , or wind - trees . The Cumulus is another form of cloud , which floats along in fleecy masses , in the days of summer , but dissolves at night . Sometimes it resembles a great stack or ...
... original type . The Germans call them Winds- baume , or wind - trees . The Cumulus is another form of cloud , which floats along in fleecy masses , in the days of summer , but dissolves at night . Sometimes it resembles a great stack or ...
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... original , - so foreign in temperament and spirit to the more rep- resentative traits of New England char- acter , so large , philosophic , and saga- cious in vision and survey of great ques- tions , and so dramatic and vehement in ...
... original , - so foreign in temperament and spirit to the more rep- resentative traits of New England char- acter , so large , philosophic , and saga- cious in vision and survey of great ques- tions , and so dramatic and vehement in ...
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Page 355 - They climb up into my turret O'er the arms and back of my chair; If I' try to escape, they surround me; They seem to be everywhere.
Page 355 - HOUR. BETWEEN the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour.
Page 69 - Sit, worthy friends : — my lord is often thus, And hath been from his youth : pray you, keep seat ; The fit is momentary ; upon a...
Page 291 - With those that I saw suffer: a brave vessel, Who had, no doubt, some noble creature in her, Dash'd all to pieces.
Page 389 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Page 355 - I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart, But put you down into the dungeon In the round-tower of my heart. And there will I keep you forever, Yes, forever and a day, Till the walls shall crumble to ruin, And moulder in dust away...
Page 491 - THE GLACIERS OF THE ALPS : being a Narrative of Excursions and Ascents. An Account of the Origin and Phenomena of Glaciers, and an Exposition of the Physical Principles to which they are related.
Page 137 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.
Page 355 - I hear in the chamber above me • The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet. From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the broad hall stair, Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair. A whisper, and then a silence: Yet I know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning together To take me by surprise.
Page 230 - I can entertain no doubt, after the most deliberate study and dispassionate judgment of which I am capable, that the view which most naturalists until recently entertained, and which I formerly entertained, namely, that each species has been independently created, is erroneous. I am fully convinced that species are not immutable...