 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1818 - 624 pages
...wittily observes, that though both hammers" and anvil have been swallowed by ancients and modern», and have passed through them from one to another,...appears, that hammers of different size and weight «ill no more produce different iones upon the same anvil, than bows or clappers of different sizes... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - Philosophers - 1845 - 258 pages
...hammers and anvil have been swallowed by ancients and moderns with most ostrich-like digestion ; yet, upon examination and experiment, it appears that hammers...different size will from the same string or bell." We close here our account of the life of Pythagoras with reminding the reader that one great reason... | |
 | Art - 1851 - 490 pages
...heptachord, or seven strings, till that time. But, though both hammers and anvil have been swallowed by ancients and moderns, and have passed through them...size and weight, will no more produce different tones on the same anvil, than bows or clappers, of different sizes, will from the same string or bell. But... | |
 | Miss Ludlow - Art - 1851 - 486 pages
...heptachord, or seven .string.-, till that time. But, though both hammers and anvil have been swallowed by ancients and moderns, and have passed through them...examination and experiment, it appears that hammers, of diflerent size and weight, will no more produce diflerent tones on the same anvil, than bows or clappers,... | |
 | Art - 1854 - 504 pages
...heptachord, or seven strings, till that time. But, though both hammers and anvil have been swallowed by ancients and moderns, and have passed through them...experiment, it appears that hammers, of different size aud weight, will no more produce different tones on the same anvil, than bows or clappers, of different... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - Philosophers - 1857 - 846 pages
...hammers and anvil have been swallowed by ancients awl moderns with most ostrich-like digestion, yet upon examination and experiment it appears that hammers...different size will from the same string or bell." We close here our account of the life of Pythagoras, reminding the reader that one great reason for... | |
 | 1858 - 516 pages
...hammers and anvil have been swallowed by ancients and moderns with most ostrich-like digestion, yet upon examination and experiment it appears that hammers...different size will from the same string or belL' "—Biographical Hat. of Philosophy, pp. 16, 21-2. with striking attributes. They could not believe... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1858 - 516 pages
...hammers and anvil have been swallowed by ancients and moderns with most ostrich-like digestion, yet upon examination and experiment it appears that hammers...different size will from the same string or belL' "—Biographical Hist. ofPhtioiophy, pp. 16, 21-2. " When we consider, as Hitter observes, how Egypt... | |
 | Daniel Huntington - Art - 1838 - 492 pages
...heptachord, or seven strings, till that time. But, though both hammers and anvil have been swallowed by ancients and moderns, and have passed through them...size and weight, will no more produce different tones on the same anvil, than bows or clappers, of different sizes, will from the same string or bell. But... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - Biography - 1874 - 370 pages
...ridicules this story, and says that upon examination it will be found that hammers of different sizes will no more produce different tones upon the same...clappers of different size will from the same string or boll, and he is undoubtedly right ; but we may not any more for that cast away the story. By the fall... | |
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But, though both hammers and anvil have been swallowed by ancients and moderns, and have passed through them from one to another with an ostrich-like digestion, upon examination and experiment, it appears that hammers, of different size and weight, will... 
