The National Review, Volume 13Robert Theobald, 1861 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page 2
... whole ray indeed is refracted or bent from its course towards that side on which the glass is thicker . But Newton found that every two rays differing in colour or kind are bent in a different degree . Thus , however numerous the rays ...
... whole ray indeed is refracted or bent from its course towards that side on which the glass is thicker . But Newton found that every two rays differing in colour or kind are bent in a different degree . Thus , however numerous the rays ...
Page 20
... whole value of spectrum - analysis . Dr. Gladstone had not the good luck to choose the right branch of this inquiry ; but his concluding remarks prove that he was fully aware of the value of the prism . They are as follow : " These ...
... whole value of spectrum - analysis . Dr. Gladstone had not the good luck to choose the right branch of this inquiry ; but his concluding remarks prove that he was fully aware of the value of the prism . They are as follow : " These ...
Page 24
... whole of the information we possess about them . In the spec- trum of Sirius he observed no fixed lines within the orange and yellow spaces , but in the green there was a very strong streak , and two other very strong ones in the blue ...
... whole of the information we possess about them . In the spec- trum of Sirius he observed no fixed lines within the orange and yellow spaces , but in the green there was a very strong streak , and two other very strong ones in the blue ...
Page 26
... discovery of the differential cal- culus and the law of universal gravitation , achieved , however , by a whole army of thinkers and workers , not by a single in- tellect . ART . II . — THE EASTERN CHURCH : ITS 26 Light and Sunlight .
... discovery of the differential cal- culus and the law of universal gravitation , achieved , however , by a whole army of thinkers and workers , not by a single in- tellect . ART . II . — THE EASTERN CHURCH : ITS 26 Light and Sunlight .
Page 30
... whole course of Christian history , nor his rare gift of discerning and bringing to view the spiritual element that exists in all . Nor can he be compared with Milman for a vast and comprehensive range of multifarious literature . The ...
... whole course of Christian history , nor his rare gift of discerning and bringing to view the spiritual element that exists in all . Nor can he be compared with Milman for a vast and comprehensive range of multifarious literature . The ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
American appears authority ballads believe British century character Christ Christian citizens City civilisation colour comic constitution Count Cavour creed Dickens distinct Divine doctrine doubt Eastern Church elements England English Europe existence fact faith favour feeling flame foreign George III give Greek honour House of Commons Hudson's Bay Company human idea Indian influence interest Italy king Koreish Lake land language light living London Lord Macaulay Lord North Lord Shelburne Mahomet Martin Chuzzlewit ment mind moral nation nature never observed once opinion original Parliament passed Pecksniff peculiar perhaps persons Piers Ploughman Pitt political popular prairie present principle prism probably question Rainy Lake rays reader recognised Red River Rupert's Land Sanskrit Saskatchewan scarcely seems sense sodium South spectrum spirit statesman territory thing thought tion true truth Whig whole words
Popular passages
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 434 - 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.
Page 211 - in the room of the Right Honourable William Pitt, who, since his election, has accepted the office of First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Page 480 - ... and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. In every case, after the choice of the president, the person having the greatest number of votes of the electors shall be the vice-president.
Page 237 - AFRICA. Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa : with Accounts of the Manners and Customs of the People, and of the Chase of the Gorilla, the Crocodile, Leopard, Elephant, Hippopotamus, and other Animals.
Page 422 - The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree ; him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins. And we are his witnesses of these things, and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
Page 466 - ... with the advice and approbation of the Senate, the power of making all treaties ; to have the sole appointment of the heads or chief officers of the departments of Finance, War, and Foreign Affairs...
Page 374 - ... Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Page 355 - What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left...