Self Culture; a Monthly Devoted to the Interests of the Home University League, Volume 2, Issue 2

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Edward Cornelius Toune, Graeme Mercer Adam
Self-culture magazine Company, 1895
 

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Page 434 - The second * day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epocha in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to' be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore.
Page 374 - An enquiry into the relative weights of the ultimate particles of bodies is a subject, as far as I know, entirely new : I have lately been prosecuting this enquiry with remarkable success.
Page 390 - Institution, the income from a part of which was to be devoted to "the increase and diffusion of more exact knowledge in regard to the nature and properties of atmospheric air in connection with the welfare of man.
Page 373 - ... 3. The quantity of any liquid evaporated in the open air is directly as the force of steam from such liquid at its temperature, all other circumstances being the same.
Page 396 - On the Heat evolved by Metallic Conductors of Electricity, and in the cells of a battery during Electrolysis."— Phil.
Page 387 - It is ordered, that the selectmen of every town, in the several precincts and quarters where they dwell, shall have a vigilant eye over their brethren and neighbours, to see, first that none of them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to endeavour to teach, by themselves or others, their children and apprentices, so much learning, as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, and knowledge of the capital laws : upon penalty of twenty shillings for each neglect...
Page 414 - This is the sum of duty : do naught to others which if done to thee, would cause thee pain.
Page 410 - Earth, receive the dead With gentle pressure and with loving welcome. Enshroud him tenderly, e'en as a mother Folds her soft vestment round the child she loves.
Page 452 - The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market : and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.
Page 434 - ... publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, Free and Independent Stales; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown. and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved...

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