 | John Henry Pepper - 1881 - 538 páginas
...influences that would carry off and weaken the intensity. There are no two words, says Tyndal, with wliich we are more familiar than matter and force. The system...matter and the agent we call force. Matter, in certain respects, may be regarded as the vehicle of force ; thus, the luminiferous ether is the vehicle or... | |
 | Percival Leigh - 1903 - 278 páginas
...A Verb Passive expresses the suffering, feeling, or undergoing of something ; and therefore implies an object acted upon, and an agent by which it is acted upon ; as, to be loved ; " Wilhelmina Stubbs is loved by me." "Fact,_ Madam I" "Gracious, Major ! " Of Verbs... | |
 | Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen - 2004 - 374 páginas
...Verb Passive expresses a Passion, or Suffering, or the receiving of an Action; and necessarily implies an Object acted upon, and an Agent by which it is acted upon: as, to be loved; "Thomas is loved by me.'22 ist Phrase: The Substantive before a Verb Active, passive,... | |
 | 1853 - 1068 páginas
...John Tyndall, Esq., Ph.D. There are no two words with which we are more familiar than matter and/orce. The system of the universe embraces two things, —...an object acted upon, and an agent by which it is ncted upon ; — the object we call matter, and the agent we cnll force. Matter, in certain aspects,... | |
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A Verb Passive expresses a passion or a suffering, or the receiving of an action ; and necessarily implies an object acted upon, and an agent by which it is acted upon : as, to be loved ; 
