The Chemical Catechism: With Notes, Illustrations, and ExperimentsCollins and Company, 1818 - 581 pages |
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Page 420 - Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 87 - Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or on wide waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air...
Page 444 - That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
Page 494 - To enrich thy walls: but thou didst hew the floods, And make thy marble of the glassy wave.
Page 454 - Consider what an affair this is, when we come to very large animals. The aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the waterworks at London Bridge ; and the water roaring in its passage through that pipe is inferior, in impetus and velocity, to the blood gushing from the whale's heart.
Page 496 - It will be a general expression of the facts that have been detailed, relating to the changes and transitions by electricity, in common philosophical language, to say, that hydrogen, the alkaline substances, the metals, and certain metallic oxides, are attracted by negatively electrified metallic surfaces, and repelled by positively electrified metallic surfaces ; and contrariwise, that oxygen and acid substances are attracted by positively electrified metallic surfaces, and repelled by negatively...
Page 454 - I think, from the complexity of its mechanism, and tlie delicacy of many of its parts, that it should always be liable to derangement, or that it would soon work itself out. Yet shall this wonderful machine go, night and day, for eighty years together, at the rate of a hundred thousand strokes every twenty-four...
Page 53 - These arts of love diffuses ? What, but God? Inspiring God ! who, boundless Spirit all, And unremitting Energy, pervades, Adjusts, sustains, and agitates the whole. He ceaseless works alone ; and yet alone Seems not to work : with such perfection framed Is this complex stupendous scheme of things.
Page 270 - Soft roll your incense, herbs, and fruits, and flowers. In mingled clouds to Him, whose sun exults, Whose breath perfumes you, and whose pencil paints.
Page 495 - ... oxygen and hydrogen, with the assistance of the solar light, are the only elementary substances employed in the constitution of the whole universe ;" so that Nature, in all her operations, works the most infinitely diversified effects, by the slightest modifications in the means she employs.