The Popular Science Monthly, Volumen23D. Appleton, 1883 |
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... hand , the warm - blooded mammal is reduced , in the of hibernation , to the level of the cold - blooded reptile , the waste of its tissues dimin to such an extent as to require but a very small exertion of the respiratory proce get rid ...
... hand , the warm - blooded mammal is reduced , in the of hibernation , to the level of the cold - blooded reptile , the waste of its tissues dimin to such an extent as to require but a very small exertion of the respiratory proce get rid ...
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... hand in hand , and it is gener- ally admitted that it is better so . The teacher does not reach his greatest efficiency , indeed he must fail completely , unless he contin- ues a student , not of the works of men alone , but of Nature ...
... hand in hand , and it is gener- ally admitted that it is better so . The teacher does not reach his greatest efficiency , indeed he must fail completely , unless he contin- ues a student , not of the works of men alone , but of Nature ...
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... hand ; that a knowledge of things could only be obtained by a contact with things themselves . The use of the text - book fell into disrepute , and the student was encouraged to become his own authority . It was as if all men were labes ...
... hand ; that a knowledge of things could only be obtained by a contact with things themselves . The use of the text - book fell into disrepute , and the student was encouraged to become his own authority . It was as if all men were labes ...
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... hands of teachers who know little or nothing outside of the books they use , and often falling far short of that , serve to put the instruction in elementary physics in this country in a condition over which no one can grow very ...
... hands of teachers who know little or nothing outside of the books they use , and often falling far short of that , serve to put the instruction in elementary physics in this country in a condition over which no one can grow very ...
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... hand , mineral dusts and several kinds of microbes continue to be rare till the moisture which has caused them to adhere to the blades of grass and the moist soil of the surface has dried away . " tinues : " It does not seem to be ...
... hand , mineral dusts and several kinds of microbes continue to be rare till the moisture which has caused them to adhere to the blades of grass and the moist soil of the surface has dried away . " tinues : " It does not seem to be ...
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Página 252 - And, having dropped the expected bag, pass on. He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch ! Cold and yet cheerful : messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some ; To him indifferent whether grief or joy.
Página 411 - This must have been the curriculum for their celibates," we may fancy him concluding. " I perceive here an elaborate preparation for many things: especially for reading the books of extinct nations and of co-existing nations (from which indeed it seems clear that these people had very little worth reading in their own tongue) ; but I find no reference whatever to the bringing up of children. They could not have been so absurd as to omit all training for this gravest of responsibilities. Evidently...
Página 533 - Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth; even these of them ye may eat ; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
Página 340 - IT is done ! Clang of bell and roar of gun Send the tidings up and down. How the belfries rock and reel ! How the great guns, peal on peal, Fling the joy from town to town • Ring, O bells ! Every stroke exulting tells Of the burial hour of crime.
Página 668 - States shall have the same right in every state and territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses and exactions of every kind, and none other, any law, statute, ordinance, regulation or custom to the contrary notwithstanding...
Página 353 - Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race...
Página 668 - all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses, and exactions of every kind, and to no other.
Página 194 - Now that moral injunctions are losing the authority given by their supposed sacred origin, the secularization of morals is becoming imperative. Few things can happen more disastrous than the decay and death of a regulative system no longer fit, before another and fitter regulative system has grown up to replace it.
Página 411 - If by some strange chance not a vestige of us descended to the remote future save a pile of our schoolbooks or some college examination papers, we may imagine how puzzled an antiquary of the period would be on finding in them no indication that the learners were ever likely to be parents. "This must have been the curriculum for their celibates,
Página 739 - Not where he eats, but where he is eaten : a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet : we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots : your fat king, and your lean beggar, is but variable service ; two dishes, but to one table : that's the end.