The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 24D. Appleton, 1884 |
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... considerable island , which now rises more than eight hundred metres , or two thousand six hundred feet , above the level of the sea . It is eighty kilometres , or a little less than fifty miles , in cir- cumference at the level of the ...
... considerable island , which now rises more than eight hundred metres , or two thousand six hundred feet , above the level of the sea . It is eighty kilometres , or a little less than fifty miles , in cir- cumference at the level of the ...
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... considerable , like those of il Toppo , il Trip- piti , and il Garifoli ; and we may count some ten such cones around Epomeo , all of which have been centers of activity and furnished large flows . The appearance of Ischia was ...
... considerable , like those of il Toppo , il Trip- piti , and il Garifoli ; and we may count some ten such cones around Epomeo , all of which have been centers of activity and furnished large flows . The appearance of Ischia was ...
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... considerable damage in the neighboring towns . We know well how , eleven years later , in 79 , the hitherto peaceful mountain , covered at the time with rich plantations and forests nearly to its crater , revealed by a sudden explosion ...
... considerable damage in the neighboring towns . We know well how , eleven years later , in 79 , the hitherto peaceful mountain , covered at the time with rich plantations and forests nearly to its crater , revealed by a sudden explosion ...
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... considerable element in promoting these disasters . The Ischian earthquakes are narrowly localized . Their origin is not doubtful , but is readily traceable to the efforts which the lavas and the gases , strongly compressed under the ...
... considerable element in promoting these disasters . The Ischian earthquakes are narrowly localized . Their origin is not doubtful , but is readily traceable to the efforts which the lavas and the gases , strongly compressed under the ...
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... considerable interest . De Can- dolle's argument was to the effect that whereas animals have , by the physiological construction of their vessels , a set limit to the duration of their lives , trees have no such natural termination ...
... considerable interest . De Can- dolle's argument was to the effect that whereas animals have , by the physiological construction of their vessels , a set limit to the duration of their lives , trees have no such natural termination ...
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Page 659 - And the bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
Page 523 - I hereby appoint sole executrix of this my last will and testament ; hereby revoking all former wills by me made.
Page 351 - Amid the mysteries which become the more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the ONE absolute certainty, that he is ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed.
Page 659 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Page 62 - A mass of living protoplasm is simply a molecular machine of great complexity, the total results of the working of which or its vital phenomena depend on the one hand on its construction and on the other on the energy supplied to it ; and to speak of vitality as anything but the name for a series of operations is as if one should talk of the horologity of a clock.
Page 348 - Consequently, the final outcome of that speculation commenced by the primitive man, is that the Power manifested throughout the Universe distinguished as material, is the same Power which in ourselves wells up under the form of consciousness.
Page 474 - Thus there is no escape from the admission that in calling good the conduct which subserves life, and bad the conduct which hinders or destroys it, and in so implying that life is a blessing and not a curse, we are inevitably asserting that conduct is good or bad according as its total effects are pleasurable or painful.
Page 226 - I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character ; that which tends to form a friend, a companion, and a wife.
Page 796 - Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants? The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.
Page 345 - ... they did not commit ; the damning of all men who do not avail themselves of an alleged mode of obtaining forgiveness, which most men have never heard of; and the effecting a reconciliation by sacrificing a son who was perfectly innocent, to satisfy the assumed necessity for a propitiatory victim, are modes of action which, ascribed to a human ruler, would call forth expressions of abhorrence...