Chambers's Information for the People, Volume 1William Chambers, Robert Chambers J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1860 |
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Chambers's Information for the People, Volume 1 William Chambers,Robert Chambers Affichage du livre entier - 1867 |
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Chambers's Information for the People, Volume 1 William Chambers,Robert Chambers Affichage du livre entier - 1867 |
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Page 144 - Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise: which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Page 61 - There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf Stream.
Page 62 - The common cause of waves is the friction of the wind upon the surface of the water. Little ridges or elevations first appear, which by continuance of the force, gradually increase, until they become the rolling mountains seen where the winds sweep over a great extent of water. The heaving of the bay of Biscay, or still...
Page 206 - A cipher is placed there, and it is called the zero or nothing point of the thermometer. The freezing-point of water thus comes to be marked by the number 32°, and the boiling-point, which is 180° higher, by 212°.
Page 197 - If a piece of sponge or a lump of sugar be placed so that its lower corner touches the water, the fluid will rise up and wet the whole mass. In the same manner, the wick of a lamp will carry up the oil to supply the flame, though the flame is several inches above the level of the oil. If...
Page 126 - The external signs of the nervous temperament are fine thin hair, delicate health, general emaciation, and smallness of the muscles, rapidity in the muscular actions, vivacity in the sensations. The nervous system of individuals so constituted preponderates extremely, and they exhibit great nervous sensibility.
Page 284 - Of all the machines which have been constructed in modern times, the calculating machine is doubtless the most extraordinary. Pieces of mechanism for performing particular arithmetical operations have been long ago constructed, but these bear no comparison either in ingenuity or in magnitude to the grand design conceived and nearly executed by Mr. Babbage. Great as the power of mechanism is known to be, yet we venture to say that many of the most intelligent of our readers will scarcely admit it...
Page 62 - A wave of water, in this respect, is exactly imitated by the wave running along a stretched rope when one end is shaken ; or by the mimic waves of our theatres, which are generally undulations of long pieces of carpet, moved by attendants.
Page 68 - The rhododendron then covers immense tracts to the height of 7800 feet; and the herbaceous willow creeps 200 or 300 feet higher, accompanied by a few saxifrages, gentians, and grasses ; while lichens and mosses struggle up to the imperishable barrier of eternal snow.
Page 140 - In variegation, insects certainly exceed every other class of animated beings. Nature, in her sportive mood, when painting them sometimes imitates the clouds of heaven; at others, the meandering course of the rivers of the earth, or the undulations of their waters ; many are veined like beautiful marbles ; others have the semblance of a robe of the finest net-work thrown over them ; some she blazons with heraldic insignia, giving them to bear in fields sable, azure, vert, gules, argent, and or, fesses,...