Science for the school and family pt.2, 1864, Part 2Harper & Bros., 1864 |
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Page 329 - Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.
Page 165 - Indian rum, ie rum and water in the proportion of one part of the former to two of the latter.
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Page 261 - I suppose it is one of your big engines.' 'But what drives the engine?" ' Oh, very likely a canny Newcastle driver.' 'What do you say to the light of the sun ?' ' How can that be ?' asked the doctor.
Page 261 - It is nothing else,' said the engineer : ' it is light bottled up in the earth for tens of thousands of years, — light, absorbed by plants and vegetables, being necessary for the condensation of carbon during the process of their growth, if it be not carbon in another form, — and now, after being buried in the earth for long ages in the fields of coal, that latent light is again brought forth and liberated, made to work, as in that locomotive, for great human purposes.
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