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Page 162 - Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall: Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty in his place again." "That last line is much too long for the poetry," she added, almost out loud, forgetting that Humpty Dumpty would hear her.
Page 163 - There was a man in our town, and he was wondrous wise ; He jumped into a bramble bush, and scratched out both his eyes. And when he saw his eyes were out, with all his might and main, He jumped into another bush, and scratched them in again.
Page 234 - R of a wire of given material is directly proportional to the length / of the wire and inversely proportional to the sectional area...
Page 161 - Heat cannot pass directly from a cold body to a hot body, nor can heat be transferred from a cold body to a hot body by any means without compensation.
Page 443 - Now, in the case of a plate of tourmaline cut parallel to the axis of the crystal...
Page 325 - is continually to dwell among things soberly, without abstracting or setting the mind farther from them than makes their images meet," and "The capital precept for the whole undertaking is that the eye of the mind be never taken off from things themselves, but receive their images as they truly are, and God forbid that we should ever offer the dreams of fancy for a model of the world.
Page 158 - ... no work is done on or by the substance which undergoes the sweep, and no heat is given to or taken from it. In a trailing sweep the degeneration may lie partly in the relation between the initial and final states of the substance...
Page 81 - The specific gravity of a substance at a given temperature is the ratio of the density of the substance to the density of water at the same temperature.
Page 145 - When two or more gases are mixed in a vessel, the total pressure is equal to the sum of the pressures which each component gas would exert if it occupied the vessel alone.
Page 265 - ... cycle and the number of cycles per second is called the frequency of the machine or circuit in which its current flows.