Science and Education: EssaysD. Appleton, 1896 - 451 стор. |
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... this publication would be un- popular , and might be the means of bringing odium on my patron , several attempts were made by his friends , though none by himself , to dissuade me from persisting in it 8 I JOSEPH PRIESTLEY.
... this publication would be un- popular , and might be the means of bringing odium on my patron , several attempts were made by his friends , though none by himself , to dissuade me from persisting in it 8 I JOSEPH PRIESTLEY.
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... means of heat , it happened that , on the 1st of August 1774 , he threw the heat of the sun , by means of a large burning glass which he had recently obtained , upon a substance 1 Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air ...
... means of heat , it happened that , on the 1st of August 1774 , he threw the heat of the sun , by means of a large burning glass which he had recently obtained , upon a substance 1 Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air ...
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... means of this lens , air was expelled from it very readily . Having got about three or four times as much as the bulk of my materials , I admitted water to it , and found that it was not imbibed by it . But what surprised me more than I ...
... means of this lens , air was expelled from it very readily . Having got about three or four times as much as the bulk of my materials , I admitted water to it , and found that it was not imbibed by it . But what surprised me more than I ...
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... mean condition in which we find it . " 2 Priestley's view , in fact , is that atmospheric air is a kind of saltpetre , in which the potash is re- placed by some unknown earth . And in speculat- ing on the manner in which saltpetre is ...
... mean condition in which we find it . " 2 Priestley's view , in fact , is that atmospheric air is a kind of saltpetre , in which the potash is re- placed by some unknown earth . And in speculat- ing on the manner in which saltpetre is ...
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... means exclude Deists who will prevaricate ; and upon this scheme you would at least exclude fewer honest men . " 1 1 " Utility of Establishments , " in Essay on First Principles of Government , p . 198 , 1771 . The second reform ...
... means exclude Deists who will prevaricate ; and upon this scheme you would at least exclude fewer honest men . " 1 1 " Utility of Establishments , " in Essay on First Principles of Government , p . 198 , 1771 . The second reform ...
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Сторінка 142 - Europe as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one great confederation, bound to a joint action and working to a common result ; and whose members have, for their proper outfit, a knowledge of Greek, Roman, and Eastern antiquity, and of one another.
Сторінка 385 - No religious catechism or religious formulary which is distinctive of any particular denomination shall be taught in the school.
Сторінка 144 - An army without weapons of precision, and with no particular base of operations, might more hopefully enter upon a campaign on the Rhine, than a man, devoid of...
Сторінка 396 - By the study of what other book could children be so much humanized and made to feel that each figure in that vast historical procession fills, like themselves, but a momentary space in the interval between two eternities ; and earns the blessings or the curses of all time, according to its effort to do good and hate evil, even as they also are earning their payment for their work...
Сторінка 412 - Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not...
Сторінка 209 - Are you really my son Esau, or not?" 22 So Jacob came closer to his father Isaac. When he touched him, he said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
Сторінка 150 - Or we come to propositions of such reach and magnitude as those which Professor Huxley delivers, when he says that the notions of our forefathers about the beginning and the end of the world were all wrong, and that nature is the expression of a definite order with which nothing interferes.
Сторінка 376 - Provided that no such minute of the Education Department, not in force at the time of the passing of this Act, shall be deemed to be in force until it has lain for not less than one month on the table of both Houses of Parliament.
Сторінка 86 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of ; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order ; ready, like a...
Сторінка 236 - Huxley was right when he said that "a man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.