The Key of the Universe1866 - Ether (Space) - 279 pages |
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affinity animals appear ascer assert atmosphere attraction burning calyx carbon carbonic acid carpels centre chemical affinities chemical atoms chlorine chyle colours combinations combustion comet considered constitute corolla correlative Creation degree determined diffusion distance double stars Earth effect electricity elements equal Ether of Space ethereal forces example existence expansion extremely fibres flame flower force of Space free atoms gases globe heat hydrogen imagine imply induced infer infinite instance leaves light likewise magnetism manner matter medium metal motion nature negative Ether negative pole nerves nodes observed orbit organic organic Ether oxygen particle perianth petals phenomena plants polar positive Ether positive pole produced radiation ratio rays reason regard Reign of Fire repelled resolve respect revolution scale sepals solar species sphere stamens stars stem sulphur sun's suppose surface tain tion tissues tree tribe tricity universe vegetable velocity vibrations vital Zodiacal Light
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Page 151 - I could hear from most of the negroes of three plantations, amounting in all to about six or eight hundred. While earnestly listening for the cause, I heard a faint voice near the door calling my name. I arose, and taking my sword, stood at the door. At this moment, I heard the same voice still beseeching me to rise...
Page 157 - To tell you once again that at my birth The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, The goats ran from the mountains, and the herds Were strangely clamorous to the frighted fields. These signs have mark'd me extraordinary ; And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men.
Page 151 - Upwards of one hundred lay prostrate on the ground, some speechless, and some with the bitterest cries, but with their hands raised, imploring God to save the world and them. The scene was truly awful ; for never did rain fall much thicker than the meteors fell towards the earth ; east, west, north, and south it was the same.
Page 147 - Some of them were soon caught, and were found to vary in size from three to seven inches. All the exterior surface of the animal was bristled with thick oblong tubercles, shining like so many diamonds ; and these seemed to be the principal seat of its wonderful phosphorescence.
Page 120 - Belched fire and rolling smoke; the rest entire Shone with a glossy scurf— undoubted sign That in his womb was hid metallic ore, The work of sulphur.
Page 275 - If a thin sheet of window glass, about 4 inches square, be held between the knob of a charged jar and the discharging rod, the discharge will pass over the surface nearest the jar, turn over its edge, and so get to the discharging rod. On holding the glass up to the light no trace of the discharge will be seen ; but on breathing upon the glass we get a ramified figure, consisting of a trunk, from which proceed a number of branches covered with spray, the whole figure strongly resembling a tree.
Page 151 - While earnestly listening for the cause I heard a faint voice near the door calling my name. I arose, and, taking my sword, stood at the door. At this moment I heard the same voice still beseeching me to rise, and saying, ' O my God, the world is on fire...
Page 118 - A piece of potassium contains less potassium than an equal piece of the potash formed by it and oxygen. We may cast into potassium oxygen atom for atom, and then again both oxygen and hydrogen in a twofold number of atoms, and yet, with all these additions, the matter shall become less and less, until it is not two-thirds of its original volume. If a given bulk of potassium contains...
Page 146 - All at onco there appeared, at some distance, as it were a vast sheet of phosphorus floating on the waves ; and it occupied a great space before the vessel. The vessel having passed through this inflamed part of the sea, the crew discovered that this prodigious light was occasioned entirely by an immense number of small animals, which swam ,it different depths, and appeared to assume various forms.