Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, Томи 37 – 38American Philosophical Society, 1808 |
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... centuries numerous observers and physicists , astronomers and magneticians have endeavored to contribute to our knowledge of the altitude of the region whence the auroral light proceeds , and still the greatest diversity of opinion ...
... centuries numerous observers and physicists , astronomers and magneticians have endeavored to contribute to our knowledge of the altitude of the region whence the auroral light proceeds , and still the greatest diversity of opinion ...
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... century old . It was printed upon what is known as a quarto sheet , measuring seven by nine inches ; it was without date or imprint , and the title simply told that it was a description of a silk serviette or handker- chief . Certainly ...
... century old . It was printed upon what is known as a quarto sheet , measuring seven by nine inches ; it was without date or imprint , and the title simply told that it was a description of a silk serviette or handker- chief . Certainly ...
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... century ago with the famous discussion waged between the Plutonists and Neptunists , as to whether fire or water had been most active in producing the phe- 1 PROC . AMER . PHIL . SOC . , xxxvi , No. 154 . nomena of rock building ...
... century ago with the famous discussion waged between the Plutonists and Neptunists , as to whether fire or water had been most active in producing the phe- 1 PROC . AMER . PHIL . SOC . , xxxvi , No. 154 . nomena of rock building ...
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... century devoted themselves.1 These gentlemen first considered the reactions that according to known chemical laws must follow the cooling of a heterogeneous mixture of the elements composing the earth , in a state of gaseous fluidity ...
... century devoted themselves.1 These gentlemen first considered the reactions that according to known chemical laws must follow the cooling of a heterogeneous mixture of the elements composing the earth , in a state of gaseous fluidity ...
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... centuries given rise to the formation of zeölites and other silicated minerals among the bricks and cement of the old Roman baths . He further shows that at a temperature of 100 ° C. silicates are produced from a reaction between ...
... centuries given rise to the formation of zeölites and other silicated minerals among the bricks and cement of the old Roman baths . He further shows that at a temperature of 100 ° C. silicates are produced from a reaction between ...
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Сторінка 164 - ... whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Сторінка 106 - This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Сторінка 106 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...
Сторінка 104 - He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our...
Сторінка 103 - ... that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, [begun at a distinguished period and...
Сторінка 105 - He has excited domestic insurrections among us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
Сторінка 104 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise, the State remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without and convulsions within.
Сторінка 104 - Britain is a history of unremitting injuries and usurpations, among which appears no solitary fact to contradict the uniform tenor of the rest, but all have in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this let facts be submitted to a candid world, for the truth of which we pledge a faith yet unsullied by falsehood.
Сторінка 244 - From the evidence it would appear that the submergence took place at the end of the fourteenth or the beginning of the fifteenth century.
Сторінка 107 - We might have been a. free and a great people together; but a communication of grandeur and of freedom, it seems, is below their dignity. Be it so, since they will have it. The road to happiness and to glory is open to us too. We will tread it apart from them, and acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our eternal separation.