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Página 9 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below:" so always, that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Página 103 - ... effect. The best way of preparing a solution of minimum strength is as follows: — A concentrated neutral solution of tungstate of soda is diluted with water to 28° Twaddle, and then mixed with three per cent, of phosphate of soda. This solution was found to keep and to answer well ; it has been introduced into Her Majesty's laundry, where it is constantly being used.
Página 322 - ... and it has been found occasionally to equal boxwood, though it is not quite so hard. It is an elastic wood that hardens on exposure to the air, and stands a good deal of rough usage in the press ; some blocks have yielded upwards of 20,000 impressions without being worn out. The large pale saudalwood is not so good as the small dark kinds. This wood was not tried in England, as its price was thought to be too dear, but on comparing it with boxwood, which sells in England for one penny the square...
Página 324 - ... to one two-hundredth of an inch in diameter, and under an inch objective form splendid specimens for the micro-crystallographer. Here and there we find octohedra absolutely perfect, but they are more frequently truncated; all the angles, however, being beautifully sharp. The majority are transparent, but some are only translucent, or even opaque. By reflected light (using a bull's-eye condenser) they appear, in consequence of their adamantine lustre, like diamonds lying in high relief on a black...
Página 320 - CHAIRMAN said it was now his duty, as well as his pleasure, to propose that the thanks of the meeting be given to Mr. Barclay for the paper he had been kind enough to read, but, before doing so...
Página 122 - Nay, to countless meaner masters than they. For though, indeed, as early as the year 1102, it was decreed in a council at St. Peter's, Westminster, " that no man for the future should presume to carry on the wicked trade of selling men in the markets, like brute beasts, which hitherto hath been the common custom of England...
Página 324 - Then revaporize the sublimate, holding the tube (which should be closed by a loosely-fitting cork) as upright as possible. The dense vapour sinks to the bottom, and will give large and regular crystals as the glass slowly cools. These crystals glitter in the sun like diamonds, and exhibit the same play of colours: they are from...
Página 4 - HE progress which has been made during the last thirty years, in the Mechanical Arts, and in the application of Science to the useful purposes of life, has been no less remarkable for its rapidity, than for the variety and importance of the inventions by which it has been marked. The history of the Fine Arts during the same period, though it does not present us with any very splendid achievements, has yet to record some striking...
Página 38 - an adequate amount of ventilation shall be constantly produced in all collieries, to dilute and render harmless gases to such an extent as that the working-places and levels of such collieries shall, under ordinary circumstances, be in a fit state for working.
Página 40 - ... at that particular occasion, either by the defendant himself or by some persons employed by him, unless it can be shown that the injury did not so result. In short, that proved neglect, the probable cause of the injury, should be primd facie evidence that it was the real cause, and that coal-owners should compensate for injury suffered by those they employ, in consequence of breach of law either by themselves or their agents. The object would, however, be much more perfectly attained if no one...