Chemistry of the Four Seasons, Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter: An Essay, Principally Concerning Natural Phenomena Admitting of Interpretation by Chemical Science, and Illustrating Passages of Scripture |
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... remain refractory as the metal Iron , they demand to rank with it as Elements , and this position the chemist is reluctantly compelled to grant . Chalk is another well - known substance : -Of what does it consist ? is the question of ...
... remain refractory as the metal Iron , they demand to rank with it as Elements , and this position the chemist is reluctantly compelled to grant . Chalk is another well - known substance : -Of what does it consist ? is the question of ...
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... remain intimately and uniformly mixed to constitute the first , and the last food of life . But when the lightning goes forth , as the terrible display of natural electricity in the thunder storm , the chemist discovers that the ...
... remain intimately and uniformly mixed to constitute the first , and the last food of life . But when the lightning goes forth , as the terrible display of natural electricity in the thunder storm , the chemist discovers that the ...
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... remains upon the part to which it is originally applied . Lastly , some substances , especially air and water , will not admit of being heated by conduction . The chemist accordingly classes the foregoing sub- stances as conductors 38 ...
... remains upon the part to which it is originally applied . Lastly , some substances , especially air and water , will not admit of being heated by conduction . The chemist accordingly classes the foregoing sub- stances as conductors 38 ...
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... remain entirely dependent upon the leaves which are developed in the plumula , and the fibres of the radicle for its future sus- tenance . The silent and miraculous pheno- menon of Germination will only en- sue under certain conditions ...
... remain entirely dependent upon the leaves which are developed in the plumula , and the fibres of the radicle for its future sus- tenance . The silent and miraculous pheno- menon of Germination will only en- sue under certain conditions ...
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... remain un- changed or dormant ; but remove it near the surface , so that the porosity of the soil may admit of the just and naturally combined agencies of air , water , and heat , it will quickly start into life , and its emerging ...
... remain un- changed or dormant ; but remove it near the surface , so that the porosity of the soil may admit of the just and naturally combined agencies of air , water , and heat , it will quickly start into life , and its emerging ...
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Page 405 - ... a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and...
Page 145 - Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens and stretched them out ; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein...
Page 234 - The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the Lord is upon many waters. The voice of the Lord is powerful ; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.
Page 288 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Page 244 - The voice of the Lord is powerful, the voice of the Lord is full of majesty. The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars ; yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.
Page 434 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: That bringeth the princes to nothing ; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Page 59 - Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.
Page 183 - Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time? 57 Yea, and why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?
Page 434 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Page 158 - They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.