The Popular Science Monthly, Volumen13D. Appleton, 1878 |
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... plants and animals , metals played the part of pigments in Nature , and thus produced , in stones , colors almost surpassing in brilliancy those to be found in the animal kingdom . Rubies and emeralds are probably colored with chrome ...
... plants and animals , metals played the part of pigments in Nature , and thus produced , in stones , colors almost surpassing in brilliancy those to be found in the animal kingdom . Rubies and emeralds are probably colored with chrome ...
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... plants , destined to replace their parents , and continue the life of their species to future generations . Flowers and seeds go together ; every flower producing seed , and every seed springing from a flower . Ferns and other like plants ...
... plants , destined to replace their parents , and continue the life of their species to future generations . Flowers and seeds go together ; every flower producing seed , and every seed springing from a flower . Ferns and other like plants ...
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... plants . No motion can take place in a growing shoot without the aid of solar energy , directly supplied by the sunshine , or indirectly laid by in the older tissues . In the green parts of a plant this energy is immediately derived ...
... plants . No motion can take place in a growing shoot without the aid of solar energy , directly supplied by the sunshine , or indirectly laid by in the older tissues . In the green parts of a plant this energy is immediately derived ...
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... plant and the similar actions of the frugivorous animals which subsist upon the food intended for its use . If , however , we look at the second great case , that of bulbs and tubers , we shall see the same truth still more clearly ...
... plant and the similar actions of the frugivorous animals which subsist upon the food intended for its use . If , however , we look at the second great case , that of bulbs and tubers , we shall see the same truth still more clearly ...
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... plant ; in the case of the bulb , by the hyacinth itself . The materials produced in the leaves were trans- ferred by the sap into the flower or the stem , and were there laid by in safety till a need arose for their expenditure . All ...
... plant ; in the case of the bulb , by the hyacinth itself . The materials produced in the leaves were trans- ferred by the sap into the flower or the stem , and were there laid by in safety till a need arose for their expenditure . All ...
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Página 524 - For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Página 706 - The Lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic. Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Página 705 - Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, Or else worth all the rest ; I see thee still, And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before. There's no such thing : It is the bloody business which informs Thus to mine eyes.
Página 249 - SOUND : a Series of Simple, Entertaining, and Inexpensive Experiments in the Phenomena of Sound, for the use of Students of every age.
Página 732 - Crown'd after trial ; sketches rude and faint, But where a passion yet unborn perhaps Lay hidden as the music of the moon Sleeps in the plain eggs of the nightingale.
Página 704 - I took the man and sat him in the chair, where I saw him as distinctly as if he had been before me in his own proper person — I may almost say more vividly. I looked from time to time at the imaginary figure, then worked with my pencil, then referred to the countenance, and so on, just as I should...
Página 704 - Blake, poet and painter, who used constantly to see his conceptions as actual images or visions. " You have only," he said, " to work up imagination to the state of vision, and the thing is done.
Página 708 - What art thou?" said he boldly, " Art thou god or man? And what is thy business with me?" The spectre answered, " I am thy evil genius, Brutus ! Thou wilt see me at Philippi.
Página 248 - ... of Africa. The great political revolutions of the last decade, with the natural result of the lapse of time, have brought into public view a multitude of new men, whose names are in every one's mouth, and of whose lives every one is curious to know the particulars. Great battles have been fought and important...
Página 248 - The work has been begun after long and careful preliminary labor, and with the most ample resources for carrying it on to a successful termination. None of the original stereotype plates have been used, but every page has been printed on new type, forming in...