The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts, Volumen37A. and C. Black, 1844 |
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Página 307 - Negroes were numerous in Egypt, but their social position in ancient times was the same that it now is, that of servants and slaves.
Página 307 - 6. Kings of Egypt appear to have been incidentally derived from each of the above nations. " 7. The Copts, in part at least, are a mixture of the Caucasian and the Negro in extremely variable proportions. " 8. Negroes were numerous in Egypt...
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Página 21 - ... of war, to the remotest seas. Indeed it appears probable that the law of gravity, as established by the Creator, puts forth in this single water-fall more intense and effective energy, than is necessary to move all the artificial machinery of the habitable globe...
Página 183 - ... of this narrow island. Some of the fissures near the cliffs were a yard wide. Many enormous masses had already fallen on the beach, and the inhabitants thought that when the rains commenced far greater slips would happen. The effect of the vibration on the hard, primary slate which composes the foundation of the island was still more curious: the superficial parts of some narrow ridges were as completely shivered as if they had been blasted by gunpowder.
Página 140 - There runs, moreover, an invisible thread, at all times, across this immense diversity, and presents to us, as a definite result, a continual progress in this development, of which man is the...
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Página 32 - ... the minimum thickness of the crust of the globe, which can be deemed consistent with the observed amount of precession, cannot be less than one-fourth of the earth's radius...
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