The Annual Biography and Obituary, Bind 14Longman., 1830 |
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... observations on life , assisted by all that the imagin- ation could conceive of a woman of fashion , we should find every idea realised , and every conception embodied , in the person and acting of Miss Farren . Her figure is 24 THE ...
... observations on life , assisted by all that the imagin- ation could conceive of a woman of fashion , we should find every idea realised , and every conception embodied , in the person and acting of Miss Farren . Her figure is 24 THE ...
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... observation : like the trunk of the elephant , it could tear up the oak of the forest , or pluck the acorn from its branch . That circum- stances in early life should have directed such energies to the advancement of a science which ...
... observation : like the trunk of the elephant , it could tear up the oak of the forest , or pluck the acorn from its branch . That circum- stances in early life should have directed such energies to the advancement of a science which ...
Side 43
... enquiry within his reach , certainly affords a whimsical illustration of the maxim . Nor can we pass over these circumstances with- out observing how materially they must have influenced the subsequent SIR HUMPHRY DAVY . 13.
... enquiry within his reach , certainly affords a whimsical illustration of the maxim . Nor can we pass over these circumstances with- out observing how materially they must have influenced the subsequent SIR HUMPHRY DAVY . 13.
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out observing how materially they must have influenced the subsequent success of Davy as an experimentalist : had he in the commencement of his career been furnished with all those appliances which he enjoyed at a later period , it is ...
out observing how materially they must have influenced the subsequent success of Davy as an experimentalist : had he in the commencement of his career been furnished with all those appliances which he enjoyed at a later period , it is ...
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... Observations , " appended to his " Chemical Researches , " it appears that he had no sooner heard of the curious experiments of Volta upon the effects produced by the contact of two in- organic bodies , than , with his characteristic ...
... Observations , " appended to his " Chemical Researches , " it appears that he had no sooner heard of the curious experiments of Volta upon the effects produced by the contact of two in- organic bodies , than , with his characteristic ...
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Side 201 - Essays on the Lives and Writings of Fletcher of Saltoun and the Poet Thomson: Biographical, critical, and political.
Side 47 - ... in a state of intense activity ; and a platina wire, communicating with the positive side, was brought in contact with the upper surface of the alkali. The whole apparatus was in the open atmosphere.
Side 50 - In sciences kindred to chemistry, the knowledge of the nature of the alkalies, and the analogies arising in consequence, will open many new views; they may lead to the solution of many problems in geology, and shew that agents may have operated in the formation of rocks and earths which have not hitherto been suspected to exist.
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Side 63 - The Bakerian Lecture, on some of the Combinations of Oxymuriatic Gas and Oxygen, and on the Chemical Relations of these Principles to inflammable Bodies.