The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 24D. Appleton, 1883 |
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... practical science especially designed for train- ing teachers , and chiefly resorted to by such persons ; and , secondly , by introducing some science requisitions into the admission examina- tions . But the attempt has been an utter ...
... practical science especially designed for train- ing teachers , and chiefly resorted to by such persons ; and , secondly , by introducing some science requisitions into the admission examina- tions . But the attempt has been an utter ...
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... practical proofs that they , not we , are the enemies of human hap- piness ; that we make war upon vice , and not upon harmless pleasures . It is a significant fact that in every civilized country of this earth drunkenness is rarest ...
... practical proofs that they , not we , are the enemies of human hap- piness ; that we make war upon vice , and not upon harmless pleasures . It is a significant fact that in every civilized country of this earth drunkenness is rarest ...
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... practical inference . Since the comparatively short post - gla- cial and recent periods apparently include the whole of human history , we are but new - comers on the earth , and therefore have had little opportunity to solve the great ...
... practical inference . Since the comparatively short post - gla- cial and recent periods apparently include the whole of human history , we are but new - comers on the earth , and therefore have had little opportunity to solve the great ...
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... practical formula may be reduced from these data . When a considerable quantity of much - used frying fat is accu- mulated , heat it to about 300 ° Fahr . , as indicated by the crackling of water when sprinkled on it , or , better still ...
... practical formula may be reduced from these data . When a considerable quantity of much - used frying fat is accu- mulated , heat it to about 300 ° Fahr . , as indicated by the crackling of water when sprinkled on it , or , better still ...
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... practical conclusion of this part of my subject , I will quote from this month's number of " The Oil Trade Review " the current wholesale prices of some of the oils possibly available for frying pur- poses . Olive - oil , from £ 43 to ...
... practical conclusion of this part of my subject , I will quote from this month's number of " The Oil Trade Review " the current wholesale prices of some of the oils possibly available for frying pur- poses . Olive - oil , from £ 43 to ...
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Page 521 - I hereby appoint sole executrix of this my last will and testament ; hereby revoking all former wills by me made.
Page 349 - 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 223 - everywhere Two heads in council, two beside the hearth, Two in the tangled business of the world, Two in the liberal offices of life, Two plummets dropt for one to sound the abyss Of science, and the secrets of the mind : Musician, painter, sculptor, critic, more : And everywhere the broad and bounteous Earth Should bear a double growth of those rare souls, Poets, whose thoughts enrich the blood of the world.
Page 346 - 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 9 - Wherever a variant reading is adopted, some good and recognized Shaksperian Critic has been followed. In no case is a new rendering of the text proposed ; nor has it been thought necessary to distract the reader's attention by notes or comments.
Page 4 - The best Essays, Reviews, Criticisms, Tales, Sketches of Travel and Discovery, Poetry, Scientific, Biographical, Historical, and Political Information, from the entire body of Foreign Periodical Literature, and from the pens of The ablest and most cultivated intellects, in every department of Literature.
Page 472 - 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 343 - ... 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...
Page 347 - ... religious beliefs and sentiments, seem unaware that whatever of mystery is taken from the old interpretation is added to the new. Or rather, we may say that transference from the one to the other is accompanied by increase; since, for an explanation which has a seeming feasibility, science substitutes an explanation which, carrying us back only a certain distance, there leaves us in presence of the avowedly inexplicable.