 Look at the integrated energies of our world — the stored power of our coalfields ; our winds and rivers ; our fleets, armies, and guns. What are they ? They are all generated by a portion of the sun's energy, which does not amount to j, jyoWirjoth...  Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion - Page 516by John Tyndall - 1869 - 541 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Louis Figuier - 1874 - 328 pages
...Tyndall says on this subject, in the book we have already quoted : — " Look at the integrated energy of our world — the stored power of our coal-fields...all generated by a portion of the sun's energy which does not amount to ¥ aTo oVo iro'oth °f the whole. This, in fact, is the entire fraction of the sun's... | |
 | Lionel Smith Beale - 1874 - 460 pages
...first is one of those grand conceptions for the contemplation of which, according to its exponent, a certain force of character is requisite to preserve us from bewilderment ! The new philosophy seems applicable to colossal masses of matter but not to the constituent particles... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1875 - 380 pages
...of to-day may dwell amid conceptions which beggar those of Milton. So great and grand are they, that in the contemplation of them, a certain force of character...generated by a portion of the sun's energy, which does not amount to mnrrnfeioooth of the whole. This, in fact, is the entire fraction ol the sun's force... | |
 | Wonders - 1877 - 136 pages
...to-day may dwell amid conceptions which beggar those of Milton. " So great and grand are they, that in the contemplation of them a certain force of character...; the stored power of our coal-fields, our winds, our seas and rivers ; our fleets, armies, and guns. What are they ? They are all generated by a portion... | |
 | 1877 - 844 pages
...world — the stored power of our coal-fields ; our woods and rivers ; our fleets, armies and guns. They are all generated by a portion of the sun's energy which does not amount to TrcnroWTrff of the whole.'9 I must say, with all due respect, that here is a radical... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1877 - 1470 pages
...world — the stored power of our coal-fields ; our woods and rivers ; our fleets, armies and guns. They are all generated by a portion of the sun's energy which does not amount to иипто of the whole.'9 I must say, with all due respect, that here is a radical... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1878 - 508 pages
...of today may dwell amid conceptions which beggar those of Milton. So great and grand are they, that, in the contemplation of them, a certain force of character is requisite to preserve us from bewilderment. 9. Look at the integrated energies of our world — the stored power of our coal-fields ; our winds... | |
 | James Thomas Whittaker - 1879 - 318 pages
...dwell amid conceptions that beggar the visions of Dante and Milton. So great and grand are they, that in the contemplation of them, a certain force of character is requisite to preserve us from bewilderment." All the energies of our earth, mighty as they seem to be, are derived from the small pencil of rays... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1881 - 572 pages
...imagination. The natural philosopher of to-day may dwell amid conceptions which beggar those of Milton. Look at the integrated energies of our world — the...generated by a portion of the sun's energy, which does not amount to asooo^ooot of the whole. This is the entire fraction of the sun's force intercepted... | |
 | Isaac Sharpless, George Morris Philips - 1882 - 318 pages
...says, " The natural philosopher of to-day may dwell amid conceptions which beggar those of Milton. Look at the integrated energies of our world, —...generated by a portion of the sun's energy, which does not amount to 2,300,000.000 of the whole. This is the entire fraction of the sun's force intercepted... | |
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