The Edinburgh Journal of Science, Bind 2Thomas Clark, 1830 |
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Side 208 - Why don't you speak, ?" The figure immediately moved off towards the window at the further end of the room, with its eyes still gazing on her, and it passed so very close to her in doing so, that she was struck by the circumstance of hearing no step nor sound, nor feeling her clothes brushed against, nor even any agitation in the air. Although she was now convinced that the figure...
Side 253 - But the sehrdb and chittrdm, the true mirage of Isaiah, differ from that illusion called the see-kote, and though the traveller will hasten to it in order to obtain a night's lodging, I do not think he would expect to slake his thirst there. When we witnessed this phenomenon, at first the eye was attracted by a lofty opaque wall of lurid smoke, which seemed to be bounded by or to rise from the very verge of the horizon. By slow degrees, the dense mass became more transparent, and assumed a reflecting...
Side 62 - I was told, to the poverty of the soil, and partly also to the circumstance of there being none of the people in that part whose business it is to perform the process. This latter is very simple : short joints of a thin sort of bamboo, sharpened at one end like a...
Side 168 - Strabo, and which has hitherto not been understood, from its being spoken of by the author as an observation of an equinox. Professor Whewell continued, the reading of his paper " on the causes and characters of pointed architecture ;" and explained the influence of the pointed arch upon the other members of buildings, through which influence the Romanesque style was at last superseded by the very opposite forms of the Gothic.
Side 114 - ... the power of habit; but there can be no doubt that the youths are perfectly distinct beings, having each his organization totally independent of each other. This is placed beyond a doubt by various circumstances. No one can fail to be touched with the perfect harmony that subsists between them. Attempts have been made to create jealousies between them, but without the slightest effect. Any gift which they receive, capable of division, is shared between them ; and any other description of present...
Side 209 - ... of nursery-tales cannot altogether banish, had it not been for a third apparition, at whose visit I myself assisted, a few days afterwards, and which I think is the key-stone of the case, rendering it as complete as could be wished. ' " On the 4th of this month, January, 1830, five days after the last apparition, at about ten o'clock at night, I was sitting in the drawing-room with Mrs. B. and in the act of stirring the fire, when she exclaimed 'Why, there's the cat in the room!
Side 207 - Supposing that his mind was absorbed in thought, she sat down in an arm-chair near the fire, and within two feet at most of the figure, which she still saw standing before her.
Side 209 - Mrs. had certainly no idea that the sight of the cat was an illusion. I asked her to touch it. She got up for the purpose, and seemed as if she was pursuing something which moved away. She followed a few steps, and then said, ' It has gone under that chair.
Side 254 - I determined that it must be the masses of a floating miraye, which hud attained its most attenuated form, and being carried by a gentle current of air past the tops and sides of the hills, while it was itself imperceptible, made them appear in motion. But although this was novel and pleasing, it wanted the splendour of the scene of this morning, which I never saw equalled but once. This occurred at Hissar, where I went to visit a beloved friend — gone, alas ! to a better world — whose ardent...
Side 209 - I rang the bell, and sent for the two cats. They were both found in the housekeeper's room. The most superstitious person could now doubt no longer as to the real character of all these illusory appearances; and the case is so complete, that I hope there will be no renewal of them, symptomatic as they of course are of a disordered state of the body. I am sorry to say Mrs. as well as myself forgot to try in time the experimentum crucis on the cat.