Annals of Philosophy, Volume 22Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1823 - Agriculture |
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... exists in these statements , but by supposing there must be some error : but the most surprising discrepancy is in the Westminster . The pro- portion is so different from either of the others , I should be very strongly inclined to ...
... exists in these statements , but by supposing there must be some error : but the most surprising discrepancy is in the Westminster . The pro- portion is so different from either of the others , I should be very strongly inclined to ...
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... exist in the statements given by these three Companies ; first , in the great difference in the quantities of gas produced , and the equally great difference in the waste ; next , in the vast disproportion of expence in management ...
... exist in the statements given by these three Companies ; first , in the great difference in the quantities of gas produced , and the equally great difference in the waste ; next , in the vast disproportion of expence in management ...
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... exist to produce the same effect with a gasometer filled with carbu- retted hydrogen . In that state it is perfectly harmless ; a candle may be taken into a gasometer - house with impunity , and no one would dream of any danger arising ...
... exist to produce the same effect with a gasometer filled with carbu- retted hydrogen . In that state it is perfectly harmless ; a candle may be taken into a gasometer - house with impunity , and no one would dream of any danger arising ...
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... exist . Excepting the accident at Woolwich , with the par- ticulars of which I am wholly unacquainted , all the accidents which I have ever heard of have been trivial , and have arisen from gas escaping in close confined places , under ...
... exist . Excepting the accident at Woolwich , with the par- ticulars of which I am wholly unacquainted , all the accidents which I have ever heard of have been trivial , and have arisen from gas escaping in close confined places , under ...
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... exist in very great number , we must be surprised at the powerful organisation with which nature began at once in ... exists , however , in respect to three chains of mountains , that seem to spread from one point , and thus to be ...
... exist in very great number , we must be surprised at the powerful organisation with which nature began at once in ... exists , however , in respect to three chains of mountains , that seem to spread from one point , and thus to be ...
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Page 346 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Page 376 - If now a mixture of two volumes of hydrogen and one volume of oxygen is introduced into...
Page 110 - From the foregoing statements it may be safely inferred that " the mean height of the barometer at the level of the sea being the same in every part of the globe...
Page 76 - THE PHILOSOPHY OF Music ; being the substance of a Course of Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in February and March 1877. By William Pole, FRS, FRSE, Mus.
Page 219 - Microscopical Observations on the Suspension of the Muscular Motions of the Vibrio tritici," which forms the Croonian Lecture for that year.
Page 157 - Travels ; comprising Observations made during a Residence in the Tarentaise, and various parts of the Grecian and Pennine Alps, in Savoy, and in Switzerland and Auvergne, in the years 1820, 1821, and 1822, with Remarks on the present State of Society, Manners, Religion, Agriculture, Climate, &c.
Page 468 - ... fracture and a vitreous lustre. These results were nearly uniform, in various trials ; and every thing seems to indicate that were the diamond a good conductor, it would be melted by the deflagrator ; and were it incombustible, a globule would be obtained by the compound blow-pipe.
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Page 348 - God made the earth and the heavens, and every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew : for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till, the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.