Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionThe Institution, 1872 |
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... completely sepa- rated by mountains of difficult passage , as by distance , differ in the modes and facilities of life , have different interests , and consequently separate organizations . The character of the topography has divided ...
... completely sepa- rated by mountains of difficult passage , as by distance , differ in the modes and facilities of life , have different interests , and consequently separate organizations . The character of the topography has divided ...
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... completely dammed up the waters of the Dranse . The icy barrier is described to have been four hundred feet high , six hundred feet wide at the top , and three thousand feet at its base ; the lake behind it was a mile and a quarter long ...
... completely dammed up the waters of the Dranse . The icy barrier is described to have been four hundred feet high , six hundred feet wide at the top , and three thousand feet at its base ; the lake behind it was a mile and a quarter long ...
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... completely discomfited . When I repaired after him to the board , a very singular conversation took place between M. Monge , the examiner , and me . " If you are going to answer like your comrade , it is useless for me to question you ...
... completely discomfited . When I repaired after him to the board , a very singular conversation took place between M. Monge , the examiner , and me . " If you are going to answer like your comrade , it is useless for me to question you ...
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... completely routed . Our lives would not be in safety if we remained here ; the French ambassador at Mad- rid will inform me as soon as an American vessel now at anchor in the ' Grao ' of Valencia can take us on board , and I will let ...
... completely routed . Our lives would not be in safety if we remained here ; the French ambassador at Mad- rid will inform me as soon as an American vessel now at anchor in the ' Grao ' of Valencia can take us on board , and I will let ...
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... completely useless , gentlemen ; leave me to act ; one cry will be enough ; my mule will rid us of two , three , or even four men . " Scarcely one minute had elapsed after the calezero had uttered these words , when two men presented ...
... completely useless , gentlemen ; leave me to act ; one cry will be enough ; my mule will rid us of two , three , or even four men . " Scarcely one minute had elapsed after the calezero had uttered these words , when two men presented ...
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Сторінка 122 - If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us : Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us...
Сторінка 246 - Within a finite period of time past, the earth must have been, and within a finite period of time to come, the earth must again be, unfit for the habitation of man as at present constituted, unless operations have been, or are to be performed, which are impossible under the laws to which the known operations going on at present in the material world are subject.
Сторінка 405 - Let the laborers be hired for the trip, and informed as to what they are to do and how they are to do it.
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Сторінка 284 - ... deer will outrun the leopard in a fair and open chase, because the work supplied to its muscles by the vegetable food is capable of being given out continuously for a long period of time ; but in a sudden rush at a near distance the leopard will infallibly overtake the deer, because its flesh food stores up in the blood a reserve of force capable of being given out instantaneously in the form of exceedingly rapid muscular action.
Сторінка 105 - The degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on him by the principal universities of this country, and few of our leading societies were willing to forego the honor of numbering him among their associates. He was elected in succession president of the American Philosophical Society, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and of the National Academy of Sciences established by Congress. Nor were foreigners less forward in acknowledging his merit. He was a member of the Royal Society...
Сторінка 246 - ... in comparison with the force of the mine which it explodes. But without the power to make some material disposition,' to originate some movement, or to change, at least temporarily, the amount of dynamical force appropriate to some one or more material molecules, the mechanical results of human or animal volition are inconceivable. It matters not that we are ignorant of the mode in which this is performed. It suffices to bring the origination of dynamical power, to however small an extent, within...