National Review, Volume 13Robert Theobold, 1861 |
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... common white light , such as the sun so bountifully pours down upon us . It is only by this compound ray that in ordinary life we recognise things , and every one knows what a great deal we may do in this way . Optical philosophers ...
... common white light , such as the sun so bountifully pours down upon us . It is only by this compound ray that in ordinary life we recognise things , and every one knows what a great deal we may do in this way . Optical philosophers ...
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... common salt in the air was , however , a fact long known , and proved by the saltness of rain - water . Thus the writer of the present article has , by the common chemical tests , found appreciable and sometimes large quantities of salt ...
... common salt in the air was , however , a fact long known , and proved by the saltness of rain - water . Thus the writer of the present article has , by the common chemical tests , found appreciable and sometimes large quantities of salt ...
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... common with the salts of soda is water ; yet I think that the formation or presence of water cannot be the origin of this yellow light , because ignited sulphur produces the very same , a substance with which water is supposed to have ...
... common with the salts of soda is water ; yet I think that the formation or presence of water cannot be the origin of this yellow light , because ignited sulphur produces the very same , a substance with which water is supposed to have ...
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... common salt was dissolved . A still more striking proof of the same fact was shown in an ingenious experiment by Professor Roscoe in his lecture at the Royal Institution ( partially frustrated , however , by an unfortu nate breakage ) ...
... common salt was dissolved . A still more striking proof of the same fact was shown in an ingenious experiment by Professor Roscoe in his lecture at the Royal Institution ( partially frustrated , however , by an unfortu nate breakage ) ...
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... . [ 4 ] , vol . ii . p . 448 , he describes a method of measuring the plane- tary or stellar spectra by a prism and common sextant . The wildest fables of the Arabian Nights Entertainments , so Light and Sunlight . 25.
... . [ 4 ] , vol . ii . p . 448 , he describes a method of measuring the plane- tary or stellar spectra by a prism and common sextant . The wildest fables of the Arabian Nights Entertainments , so Light and Sunlight . 25.
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Page 54 - Christ. Thou art the everlasting Son of the Father. When thou tookest upon thee to deliver man, thou didst not abhor the Virgin's womb. When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death, thou didst open the kingdom of heaven to all believers.
Page 21 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. 'Tis insensible, then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of • it. Honour is a mere scutcheon : and so ends my catechism.
Page 438 - Father, took man's nature in the womb of the blessed Virgin, of her substance ; so that two whole and perfect natures, that is to say, the Godhead and Manhood, were joined together in one Person, never to be divided, whereof is one Christ, very God and very man ; who truly suffered, was crucified, dead and buried, to reconcile His Father to us, and to be a sacrifice, not only for original guilt, but also for all actual sins of men.
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Page 48 - I do approve of the doctrine and worship and government of the Church of England by law established, as containing all things necessary to salvation ; and I promise, in the exercise of my ministry, to preach and practise according thereunto.