The Modern Philosopher, Or Terrible Tractoration: In Four Cantos, Most Respectfully Addressed to the Royal College of Physicians, LondonFrom the Lorenzo Press of E. Bronson, 1806 - 271 páginas |
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... hope he will pardon me if , instead of an advocate , I now appear in propria persona and explain a little more at large the topicks and events of which he has taken notice . Previous to my journey to England , for the purposes hereafter ...
... hope he will pardon me if , instead of an advocate , I now appear in propria persona and explain a little more at large the topicks and events of which he has taken notice . Previous to my journey to England , for the purposes hereafter ...
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... hope to make my meaning intelligible without a diagram . Suppose the simple apparatus of what is commonly called a suction pump , moved by steam or any other power , were placed at the top of a pipe leading sixty feet perpendi- cular ...
... hope to make my meaning intelligible without a diagram . Suppose the simple apparatus of what is commonly called a suction pump , moved by steam or any other power , were placed at the top of a pipe leading sixty feet perpendi- cular ...
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... hope that his objects may ultimately prove not to have been altogether unaccom- plished . With such a reward for former exertions , and such an incitement for future , it will be thought natural in him to have used his endeavour for a ...
... hope that his objects may ultimately prove not to have been altogether unaccom- plished . With such a reward for former exertions , and such an incitement for future , it will be thought natural in him to have used his endeavour for a ...
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... hope of a survival of the affray , without a broken heart through his own chagrin , however great his danger of a broken head through the chagrin of others . Thus far I had proceeded in remarks , which are applica ble to this second ...
... hope of a survival of the affray , without a broken heart through his own chagrin , however great his danger of a broken head through the chagrin of others . Thus far I had proceeded in remarks , which are applica ble to this second ...
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... hope to trace Infinity , and fathom boundless space ; With finite views , explain the links which bind The world of matter to the world of mind . Not Newton's self could look all nature through , His , though a wide , was still a ...
... hope to trace Infinity , and fathom boundless space ; With finite views , explain the links which bind The world of matter to the world of mind . Not Newton's self could look all nature through , His , though a wide , was still a ...
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Página 216 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Página 14 - I lost all connection with external things; trains of vivid, visible Images rapidly passed through my mind, and were connected with words in such a manner as to produce perceptions perfectly novel. I existed in a world of newly connected and newly modified ideas.
Página 38 - The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.
Página 259 - A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at...
Página 14 - I walked round the room perfectly regardless of what was said to me. As I recovered my former state of mind I felt an inclination to communicate the discoveries I had made during the experiment. I endeavored to recall the ideas ; they were feeble and indistinct.
Página 92 - I therefore imagined that the internal parts might be a fluid more dense, and of greater specific gravity than any of the solids we are acquainted with ; which therefore might swim in or upon that fluid. Thus the surface of the globe would be a shell, capable of being broken and disordered by the violent movements of the fluid on which it rested.
Página 171 - If, in the third place, we look into the profession of physic, we shall find a most formidable body of men. The sight of them is enough to make a man serious, for we may lay it down as a maxim, that when a nation abounds in physicians, it grows thin of people. Sir William Temple is very much puzzled to find out a reason why the Northern Hive, as he calls it, does not send out such prodigious swarms, and overrun the world with Goths and Vandals, as it did formerly; but had that excellent author observed...
Página 93 - ... centre and rise till they arrived at that region of the air which was of the same specific gravity with themselves, where they would rest; while other matter, mixed with the lighter air would descend, and the two meeting would form the shell of the first earth, leaving the upper atmosphere nearly clear.
Página 118 - Chaos heard the potent word ; Through all his realms the kindling ether runs, And the mass starts into a million suns ; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first ; Bend, as they journey with projectile force, In bright ellipses their reluctant course ; Orbs wheel in orbs, round centres centres roll, And form, self-balanced, one revolving whole. — Onward they move amid their bright abode, Space without bound, the bosom of their God...
Página 34 - I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they may be recalled to life at any period, however distant ; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence...