 | William Laxton - 1839 - 522 pages
...most proverbial emblem of all that is fleeting and momentary— may be fettered by the spells of our " natural magic," and may be fixed for ever in the position...single instant to occupy. This remarkable phenomenon, d> whatever value it may turn out in its application to the arts, will, at least, be accepted as a... | |
 | 1839 - 272 pages
...transitory of things, the proverbial emblem of all that is fleeting and momentary, may be permanently fixed in the position which it seemed only destined for a single instant to occupy. Such is the fact, that •we may receive on paper the fleeting shadow, arrest it there, and in the... | |
 | William Jerome Harrison - 1892 - 438 pages
...the proverbial emblem of all that is fleeting and momentary, may be fettered by the spells of our ' natural magic,' and may be fixed for ever in the position...at least be accepted as a new proof of the value of inductive methods of modern science, which by noticing the occurrence of unusual circumstances (which... | |
 | Alfred Thomas Story - 1902 - 188 pages
...tire following reflection on the value of scientific method. " This remarkable phenomenon," he says, "of whatever value it may turn out in its application...noticing the occurrence of unusual circumstances (which acci dent perhaps first manifests in some small degree), and by following them up with experiments,... | |
 | 1839 - 1198 pages
...shadow, the proverbial emblem of all that is fleeting and momentary, may be fettered by the spells of our “natural magic,” and may be fixed for ever in...destined for a single instant to occupy. This remarkable pha¿nomenon, of whatever value it may turn out in its application to the arts, will at least be accepted... | |
 | Sydney Ross - 1991 - 254 pages
...shadow, the proverbial emblem of all that is fleeting and momentary, may be fettered by the spells of our natural magic, and may be fixed for ever in the position...which it seemed only destined for a single instant to occupy.3 Custom has so dulled our feelings that we cannot share Talbot's enthusiastic wonder. By unconscious... | |
 | Larry J. Schaaf, William Henry Fox Talbot - 1996 - 457 pages
...fleeting and momentary, may be fettered by the spells of our ^natural magic,' and may be fixed forever in the position which it seemed only destined for a single instant to occupy."' 7 In spite of his own acceptance of this negative representation, Talbot realized that it would not... | |
 | Geoffrey Batchen - 1999 - 294 pages
...emblem of all that is fleeting and momentary, may be fettered by the spells of our ''natural magici and may be fixed for ever in the position which it...seemed only destined for a single instant to occupy. . . . Such is the fact, that we may receive on paper the fleeting shadow, arrest it there and in the... | |
 | D. Draaisma - 2000 - 268 pages
...and momentary, may be fettered by the spells of 'our natural magic', and maybe fixed for ever in a position which it seemed only destined for a single instant to occupy . . . Such is the fact, that we may receive on paper the fleeting shadow, arrest it there and in the... | |
 | Geoffrey Batchen - 2002 - 254 pages
...shadow, the proverbial emblem of all that is fleeting and momentary, may be fettered by the spells of our 'natural magic, 'and may be fixed for ever in the...seemed only destined for a single instant to occupy. . . . Such is the fact, that we may receive on paper the fleeting shadow, arrest it there and in the... | |
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... and may be fixed for ever in the position which it seemed only destined for a single instant to occupy. 
