Proceedings, Volume 12

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Page 463 - He was a striking and beautiful person ; tall, very thin, and cadaverously pale ; his hair carefully powdered, though there was little of it except what was collected into a long thin queue; his eyes dark, clear, and large, like deep pools of pure water. He wore black speckless clothes, silk stockings, silver buckles, and either a slim green silk umbrella, or a genteel brown cane. The general frame and air were feeble and slender. The wildest boy respected Black. No lad could be irreverent towards...
Page 458 - What an excellent work is that with which our common friend Mr ADAM SMITH has enriched the public!— an extensive science in a single book, and the most profound ideas expressed in the most perspicuous language.
Page 11 - This force is ever proportional to the body whose force it is; and differs nothing from the inactivity of the mass, but in our manner of conceiving it. A body, from the inactivity of matter, is not without difficulty put out of its state of rest or motion.
Page 531 - ... is at least probable that a black body at ordinary temperatures emits (though, of course, excessively feebly) radiations of wave-lengths corresponding to those of visible light. Effects apparently or at least conceivably due to this cause have been obtained by various experimenters. If we could realise a dynamical system, analogous to that of a gas on the kinetic theory, but such that none of the particles could have any but one of a certain limited number of definite speeds, and if there were...
Page 677 - It is only within the last few days that I have been in possession of,' a Stevenson screen, and been able to make comparative trials with it.
Page 523 - We have said that the debris carried away from the land accumulates at the bottom of the sea before reaching the abysmal regions of the ocean. It is only in exceptional cases that the finest terrigenous materials are transported several hundred miles from the shores. In place of layers formed of pebbles and clastic elements with grains of considerable dimensions, which play so large a part in the composition of emerged lands, the great areas of the...
Page 350 - The nearest approach to money is seen in the flat, round pieces of iron which are of different sizes, from three-quarters to two feet in diameter and half an inch thick. They are much employed in exchange. This is the form in which they are kept and used as money, but they are intended to be divided into two, heated and made into hoes. They are also fashioned into other implements, such as knives, arrow-heads, etc. and into little bells hung round the waist for ornament or round wandering cows
Page 985 - The Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
Page 527 - The animals now living in this area may bo regarded as the greatly modified descendants of those which have lived in similar regions in past geological ages, and some of whose ancestors have been preserved in the sedimentary rocks as fossils. On the other hand, many of the animals dredged in the abysmal regions are most probably also the...
Page 726 - A problem on point-motions for which a reference-frame can so exist as to have the motions of the points relative to it, rectilinear and mutually proportional".

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