Self Culture; a Monthly Devoted to the Interests of the Home University League, Volumen1,Tema 4Edward Cornelius Toune, Graeme Mercer Adam Self-culture magazine Company, 1895 |
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Página 178 - Or ever may be his ; or all the gold Sent to Orchomenos or royal Thebes, Egyptian, treasure-house of countless wealth, Who boasts her hundred gates, through each of which With horse and car two hundred warriors march...
Página 160 - The interior is finished in hard wood aeon-ding to latest ideas of elegance, convenience and comfort. The entire six floors of the building are divided into lecture rooms, class rooms, clinic rooms, etc., with the exception of the second floor, which is devoted to the Dental Infirmary. The chief lecture room has a seating capacity for four hundred and fifty students. There is also a dissecting room, thoroughly equipped with all the requisites for the study of human anatomy. There are Histological....
Página 199 - I had expected. None of my Ants would voluntarily degrade themselves by getting drunk. However, I got over the difficulty by putting them into whisky for a few moments. I took fifty specimens, twenty-five from one nest and twenty-five from another, made them dead drunk, marked each with a spot of paint, .and put them on a table close to where other Ants from one of the nests were feeding. The table was surrounded as usual with a moat of water to prevent them from straying. The Ants which were feeding...
Página 208 - Every person has two educations, — one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives himself.
Página 191 - Kongo, including the head waters of the Nile to the northeast and those of the Zambesi on the south, is a forest region not less than 3,000 miles from north to south and of vast width from east to west. In Siberia, from the...
Página 198 - It seems as if the sight of her gave them pleasure. On one occasion, while moving some Ants from one nest into another for exhibition at the Royal Institution, I unfortunately crushed the Queen and killed her. The others, however, did not desert her, or draw her out as they do dead workers, but on the contrary carried her into the new nest, and subsequently into a larger one with which I supplied them, congregating round her for weeks just as if she had been alive. One could hardly help fancying...
Página 189 - ... *The Egyptian Book of the Dead : The Most Ancient and the Most Important of the Extant Religious Texts of Ancient Egypt. Edited, with Introduction, a Complete Translation, and various chapters on its History, Symbolism, etc., etc.
Página 164 - ... the depth of winter in Lower Egypt, in the afternoon and in the shade, is from 50° to 60°; in the hottest season, it is from 90° to 100°, and about 10° higher in the southern parts of Upper Egypt."1 " On the coast of the Mediterranean rain is frequent, but. in other parts of Egypt, very unusual. At Cairo, there is generally one heavy storm in the winter, and a shower or two besides. ... At Thebes, a storm occurs but once in about four years, and light rain almost as rarely. The wind most...
Página 207 - It tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind ; dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue; awakens thought and prevents drowsiness ; lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties.
Página 164 - ... cataract is just above Assouan, a distance of seven hundred and fifty miles from the Mediterranean, through the country known as Egypt. From the junction of the Atbara to its mouth in the Mediterranean, a distance of sixteen hundred and eighty miles, the Nile receives no tributary. On the contrary, during every mile of its course its waters are diminished by evaporation, by absorption, and by irrigation.