The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 26D. Appleton, 1884 |
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50 cents American animals appears APPLETON Baku body Bond Street brain cannibalism carbonic acid cents Chemistry civilization cloth color condition course doctrine edition effect electrical electrical potential energy existence experiments fact force G. P. Putnam's Sons geological gilt give heat human hundred idea illustrated important increase Indian intelligence interest JAMES JOHONNOT knowledge less light living magazine matter means ment mental mind Monthly naphtha natural objects observation organic original paper PARKE GODWIN PEARS SOAP person physical practical present Price principle problem Professor PROFESSOR JAMES HALL published question race readers regard relation religion scientific solar Spencer surface temperature theory things thought tion tribes tricity truth universal suffrage universe volume whole WILLIAM KNABE words York
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Page 576 - Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.
Page 263 - Subjects — to confirm and establish the Christian Faith, and to confute all heretics and schismatics — upon the divine authority of the holy Scriptures — upon the authority of the writings of the primitive Fathers, as to the faith and practice of the primitive Church — upon the Divinity of our Lord and Saviour Jesns Christ — upon the Divinity of the Holy Ghost — upon the Articles of the Christian Faith, as comprehended in the Apostles
Page 584 - We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Page 318 - The path of duty was the way to glory: He that walks it, only thirsting For the right, and learns to deaden Love of self, before his journey closes, He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting 150 Into glossy purples, which outredden All voluptuous garden-roses.
Page 144 - MONTHLY will continue, as heretofore, to supply its readers with the results of the latest investigation and the most valuable thought in the various departments of scientific inquiry. Leaving the dry and technical details of science, which are of chief concern to specialists, to the journals devoted to them, the...
Page 233 - Bacon, that the words of prophecy are to be interpreted as the words of one 'with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years.
Page 583 - ... one general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
Page 404 - That this universal day is to be a mean solar day ; is to begin for all the world at the moment of mean midnight of the initial meridian, coinciding with the beginning of the civil day and date of that meridian ; and is to be counted from zero up to twenty-four hours.
Page 569 - HISTORICAL REFERENCE-BOOK, comprising a Chronological Table of Universal History, a Chronological Dictionary of Universal History, a Biographical Dictionary. With Geographical Notes. For the use of Students, Teachers, and Readers. By Louis HEILPRIN. Fourth edition, revised and brought down to 1893. Crown 8vo. 569 pages. Half leather, $3.00. " One of the most complete, compact, and valuable works of reference yet produced." — Troy Daily Times. " Unequaled in its field." — Boston Courier.
Page 427 - Serial and Short Stories, Sketches of Travel and Discovery, Poetry, Scientific, Biographical, Historical, and Political Information, from the entire body of Foreign Periodical Literature...