The Modern Philosopher: Or Terrible Tractoration! In Four Cantos, Most Respectfully Addressed to the Royal College of Physicians, LondonFrom the Lorenzo Press of E. Bronson, 1806 - 271 páginas |
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... earth with a crust , like the shell of a tortoise , and which , being unfortunately fractured , produced a Noah's flood , to Dr. Darwin , with his " omnia e conchis , " have arisen from immoderate potations of this bewildering gas ...
... earth with a crust , like the shell of a tortoise , and which , being unfortunately fractured , produced a Noah's flood , to Dr. Darwin , with his " omnia e conchis , " have arisen from immoderate potations of this bewildering gas ...
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... earth and water , and then stole from Apollo this very gas , or something very like it , for their principle of animation . ( See Ovid's Metamorphoses . ) Ju- piter behaved very shabbily on the occasion , and , instead of rewarding him ...
... earth and water , and then stole from Apollo this very gas , or something very like it , for their principle of animation . ( See Ovid's Metamorphoses . ) Ju- piter behaved very shabbily on the occasion , and , instead of rewarding him ...
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... earth's a little dirty planet , And I'll no longer help to man it , But off will flutter , in a tangent , And make a harum scarum range on't ! 16 15 Now feel a " tangible extension " Of semi - infinite dimension . Much in the same way ...
... earth's a little dirty planet , And I'll no longer help to man it , But off will flutter , in a tangent , And make a harum scarum range on't ! 16 15 Now feel a " tangible extension " Of semi - infinite dimension . Much in the same way ...
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... earth another moon , " 17 I'll make your earth another moon . The idea of the practicability of this stupendous perform- ance I derived March 28th at the Royal Institution , into the gallery of which I had the happiness to obtain admis ...
... earth another moon , " 17 I'll make your earth another moon . The idea of the practicability of this stupendous perform- ance I derived March 28th at the Royal Institution , into the gallery of which I had the happiness to obtain admis ...
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... earth , I shall not take the trouble to state to your worships ; as most of you have , perhaps , read Mr. Martin's Philosophy nearly half through . But my plan is to make such an earthquake as no mortal , except Dr. Darwin and myself ...
... earth , I shall not take the trouble to state to your worships ; as most of you have , perhaps , read Mr. Martin's Philosophy nearly half through . But my plan is to make such an earthquake as no mortal , except Dr. Darwin and myself ...
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Página 171 - If, in the third place, we look into the profession of physic, we shall find a most formidable body of men. The sight of them is enough to make a man serious, for we may lay it down as a maxim, that when a nation abounds in physicians, it grows thin of people. Sir William Temple is very much puzzled to find out a reason why the Northern Hive, as he calls it, does not send out such prodigious swarms, and overrun the world with Goths and Vandals, as it did formerly; but had that excellent author observed...
Página 216 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Página 14 - I lost all connection with external things; trains of vivid, visible Images rapidly passed through my mind, and were connected with words in such a manner as to produce perceptions perfectly novel. I existed in a world of newly connected and newly modified ideas.
Página 259 - A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at...
Página 38 - The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.
Página 94 - ... the turning of the new-formed globe upon its axis, and the greatest diameter of the shell would be in its equator. If. by any accident afterwards the axis should be changed...
Página 14 - I walked round the room perfectly regardless of what was said to me. As I recovered my former state of mind I felt an inclination to communicate the discoveries I had made during the experiment. I endeavored to recall the ideas ; they were feeble and indistinct.
Página 92 - I therefore imagined that the internal parts might be a fluid more dense, and of greater specific gravity than any of the solids we are acquainted with ; which therefore might swim in or upon that fluid. Thus the surface of the globe would be a shell, capable of being broken and disordered by the violent movements of the fluid on which it rested.
Página 93 - ... centre and rise till they arrived at that region of the air which was of the same specific gravity with themselves, where they would rest; while other matter, mixed with the lighter air would descend, and the two meeting would form the shell of the first earth, leaving the upper atmosphere nearly clear.
Página 34 - I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they may be recalled to life at any period, however distant...