Peale's Popular Compendium of Useful Knowledge, Embracing Science, History, Biography and Industrial Statistics Arranged in the Most Attractive and Instructive Form: Illustrated with a Large Number of Colored Charts and Diagrams, Constituting a Complete Cyclopedia of ReferenceR.S. Peale & Company, 1890 - 536 sider |
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... inch in thickness . Copper is so malleable that it is said that a workman , with his hammer , can beat out a kettle from a solid block of the metal . A tenacious body is one which cannot be easily pulled apart . Iron is the most ...
... inch in thickness . Copper is so malleable that it is said that a workman , with his hammer , can beat out a kettle from a solid block of the metal . A tenacious body is one which cannot be easily pulled apart . Iron is the most ...
Side 11
... inches per mile is sufficient to give motion to water , and produce a velocity of as many miles per hour . The Ganges descends but 800 feet in 1,800 miles ; its waters require a month to move down this long inclined plane . A fall of ...
... inches per mile is sufficient to give motion to water , and produce a velocity of as many miles per hour . The Ganges descends but 800 feet in 1,800 miles ; its waters require a month to move down this long inclined plane . A fall of ...
Side 38
... inch telescope to be well seen . Besides these , the whole nebula is dotted with stars . A good eye will perceive that what appears as a single star , instead of looking like a bright point , has a hazy appearance , due to the ...
... inch telescope to be well seen . Besides these , the whole nebula is dotted with stars . A good eye will perceive that what appears as a single star , instead of looking like a bright point , has a hazy appearance , due to the ...
Side 67
... inch deep . Or this same amount of metal would form a layer one- third of an inch deep on the outside of the bricks , as they are laid in our houses . So we find this hidden metal everywhere about us , and a princely fortune awaits the ...
... inch deep . Or this same amount of metal would form a layer one- third of an inch deep on the outside of the bricks , as they are laid in our houses . So we find this hidden metal everywhere about us , and a princely fortune awaits the ...
Side 178
... inches over all , extreme beam 48 feet 2-5 inches . She is bark - rigged , carrying nearly 5,000 yards of canvas ; has capacity for 940 tons of coal , and draws but 19 feet of water . Her motive power equipment consists of two compound ...
... inches over all , extreme beam 48 feet 2-5 inches . She is bark - rigged , carrying nearly 5,000 yards of canvas ; has capacity for 940 tons of coal , and draws but 19 feet of water . Her motive power equipment consists of two compound ...
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Side 484 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Side 490 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to Virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt, for all.
Side 484 - Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.
Side 484 - Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His...
Side 523 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Side 490 - The sober herd that low'd to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school...
Side 487 - In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people - ah, the people They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone, And who tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone They are neither man nor woman They are neither brute nor human They are Ghouls: And their king it is who tolls; And he rolls, rolls, rolls,...
Side 519 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway : It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself, And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice.
Side 487 - Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows; Yet the ear distinctly tells, In the jangling, And the wrangling, How the danger sinks and swells, By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells Of the bells Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells In the clamor...
Side 490 - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.