A Book of Curious Facts of General Interest Relating to Almost Everything Under the SunA.L. Burt Company, 1903 - 334 страница |
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Страница 120 - Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
Страница 303 - He hath erected, according to his ability, some four hackney coaches, put his men in a livery, and appointed them to stand at the May-Pole in the Strand, giving them instructions at what rates to carry men into several parts of the town, where all day they may be had.
Страница 313 - Think you that a drop of water, which to the vulgar eye is but a drop of water, loses anything in the eye of the physicist who knows that its elements are held together by a force which, if suddenly liberated, would produce a flash of lightning?
Страница 254 - Shakespeare entered, we should all rise ; if He appeared, we must kneel.' Or, not to multiply instances, as when Dante wrote what I will transcribe from my wife's Testament — wherein I recorded it fourteen years ago — ' Thus I believe, thus I affirm, thus I am certain it is, that from this life I shall pass to another better, there, where that lady lives, of whom my soul was enamoured.
Страница 228 - Air : for that that is not the only medium I can assure the Reader, that I have, by the help of a distended wire, propagated the sound to a very considerable distance in an instant, or with as seemingly quick a motion as that of light, at least incomparably quicker than that which at the same time was propagated through the Air ; and this not only in a straight line, or direct, but in one bended in many angles.
Страница 254 - It is a great thing, the greatest, that a human being should have passed the probation of life and sum up its experience in a witness to the power and love of God. I dare congratulate you. All the help I can offer in my poor degree is the assurance that I see ever more reason to hold by the same hope — and that by no means in ignorance of what has been advanced to the contrary.
Страница 285 - We soon observed, that in talking to one another we lost several of our words, and could not hear one another at above two yards' distance, and that too when we sat very near the fire.
Страница 313 - The truth is,, that those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
Страница 154 - Iodine and the iodides should be given on an empty stomach, when they rapidly diffuse into the blood. If given during digestion, the acids and starch alter and weaken their action. Acids as a rule, should be given between the digestive acts, because the mucous membrane of the stomach is in a favorable condition for the diffusion of the acid into the blood.
Страница 30 - ... mileage. Presuming that the blood was thrown out of the heart at each pulsation in the proportion of 69 strokes per minute, and at the assumed force of 9 feet, the mileage of the blood through the body might be taken at 207 yards per minute, 7 miles per hour, 168 miles per day, 61,320 miles per year, or 5,150,880 miles in a lifetime of eighty-four years.