Mechanics' Magazine, and Journal of the Mechanics' Institute, Bind 1D. K. Minor and J. E. Challis., 1833 |
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... never will work so well if he is ignorant of the principles , and for a plain reason : if he only learn his lesson by rote , the least change of circumstances puts him out . Be the method ever so general , cases will al- ways arise in ...
... never will work so well if he is ignorant of the principles , and for a plain reason : if he only learn his lesson by rote , the least change of circumstances puts him out . Be the method ever so general , cases will al- ways arise in ...
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... never can expect to remember them long , or to un- derstand them accurately ; and that would of itself be reason enough for examining closely the grounds they rest on . But there is the highest gratification of all , in being able to ...
... never can expect to remember them long , or to un- derstand them accurately ; and that would of itself be reason enough for examining closely the grounds they rest on . But there is the highest gratification of all , in being able to ...
Side 7
... never tires the appetite . But it is unlike the low gratifications of sense in ano- ther respect : while those hurt the health , de- base the understanding , and corrupt the feel- ings , this elevates and refines our nature , teach- ing ...
... never tires the appetite . But it is unlike the low gratifications of sense in ano- ther respect : while those hurt the health , de- base the understanding , and corrupt the feel- ings , this elevates and refines our nature , teach- ing ...
Side 18
... never be placed under the body of the carriage , as they are in the usual manner , when locked from the centre , by which means the carriage is , in many in- stances , placed on three points of bearing only , from which cause so many ...
... never be placed under the body of the carriage , as they are in the usual manner , when locked from the centre , by which means the carriage is , in many in- stances , placed on three points of bearing only , from which cause so many ...
Side 23
... never before been fully tested . Its use at this mill proves a chord of it to be worth as much as a chord of white pine wood ; one chord will grind six chords of bark ; and that , with stoves and grates properly constructed , houses may ...
... never before been fully tested . Its use at this mill proves a chord of it to be worth as much as a chord of white pine wood ; one chord will grind six chords of bark ; and that , with stoves and grates properly constructed , houses may ...
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Side 87 - I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream forty foot high; one vessel of water rarefied by fire driveth up forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work is but to turn two cocks, that, one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and re-fill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim, between the necessity of turning the said cocks.
Side 275 - I elevated myself upon a platform and addressed the assembly. I stated that I knew not what was the matter, but if they would be quiet and indulge me for half an hour, I would either go on or abandon the voyage for that time.
Side 275 - The loud laugh often rose at my expense ; the dry jest ; the wise calculation of losses and expenditures ; the dull but endless repetition of " the Fulton Folly." Never did a single encouraging remark, a bright hope, or a warm wish, cross my path.
Side 247 - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3 ORDER Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4 RESOLUTION Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. 5 FRUGALITY Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; ie, waste nothing.
Side 262 - Croesus' wealth a straw; For care, I care not what it is; I fear not fortune's fatal law; My mind is such as may not move For beauty bright, or force of love. I wish but what I have at will; I wander not to seek for more; I like the plain, I climb no hill; In greatest storms I sit on shore, And laugh at them that toil in vain To get what must be lost again.
Side 323 - Whereas the main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phenomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects, till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the Mechanism of the World, but chiefly to resolve these and such like Questions.
Side 247 - SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly. 8. JUSTICE. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
Side 246 - I would you were a brother of the angle ; for a companion that is cheerful, and free from swearing and scurrilous discourse, is worth gold. I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning...
Side 274 - The other redeems it from all its insignificance; for it tells me that in the leaves of every forest, and in the flowers of every garden, and in the waters of every rivulet, there are worlds teeming with life, and numberless as are the glories of the firmament.
Side 274 - The one has suggested to me, that beyond and above all that is visible to man, there may lie fields of creation which sweep immeasurably along, and carry the impress of the Almighty's hand to the remotest scenes of the universe. The other suggests to me...