Ellen: Or, Whisperings of an Old Pine, Volume 1American publishing Company, 1903 - Force and energy |
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... scientists . And yet they were entirely revolutionary . For they demon- strated that the undulatory theories , taught in every text book of physics , were absurd and impossible ; and that the New- tonian theory of matter , as expressed ...
... scientists . And yet they were entirely revolutionary . For they demon- strated that the undulatory theories , taught in every text book of physics , were absurd and impossible ; and that the New- tonian theory of matter , as expressed ...
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... scientists to be non - deviable , were really deviable like the cathode rays , the only difference being that a much larger magnetic field was required to deviate the Roentgen rays . " The field he used was 10,000 times as large as the ...
... scientists to be non - deviable , were really deviable like the cathode rays , the only difference being that a much larger magnetic field was required to deviate the Roentgen rays . " The field he used was 10,000 times as large as the ...
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... scientists to prove their hypotheses , had always protested against that postulate which would make certain intimately related phenomena , as heat , light , etc. , different in their nature from the great majority of things which we are ...
... scientists to prove their hypotheses , had always protested against that postulate which would make certain intimately related phenomena , as heat , light , etc. , different in their nature from the great majority of things which we are ...
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... scientists or all scientists think the universe might be made , is the question , but how it is made . We are aware that it is very difficult and in some if not many cases impossible for those educated in a system of either politics ...
... scientists or all scientists think the universe might be made , is the question , but how it is made . We are aware that it is very difficult and in some if not many cases impossible for those educated in a system of either politics ...
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... scientists , still bearing seeds of error . For nothing can be more senseless than the idea of attraction at a distance . But now as the undulatory theories disappear and the correct conditions of matter as it recedes from our view are ...
... scientists , still bearing seeds of error . For nothing can be more senseless than the idea of attraction at a distance . But now as the undulatory theories disappear and the correct conditions of matter as it recedes from our view are ...
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Page 464 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 190 - But some man will say, How are the dead raised up ? and with what body do they come? Thou fool, that which thou so west is not quickened, except it die.
Page 190 - There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory.
Page 344 - Bless the LORD, ye his angels, That excel in strength, that do his commandments, Hearkening unto the voice of his word.
Page 283 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Page 179 - Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York ; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Page 484 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years...
Page 180 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Page 484 - And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 191 - The first man is of the earth, earthy : the second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy ; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.