Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the Royal Institution, with Abstracts of the Discourses, Band 14W. Nicol, Printer to the Royal Institution, 1896 |
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... effect of the imagination in this case reaches nearly half - way to the level of consciousness . If it were a little more than twice as strong it would be able by itself to produce an effect indistinguishable from a real sound . Two ...
... effect of the imagination in this case reaches nearly half - way to the level of consciousness . If it were a little more than twice as strong it would be able by itself to produce an effect indistinguishable from a real sound . Two ...
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... effect of a flowing line . It must be recollected that the eye can perceive nothing finer than a minute blur of one 300th part of an inch in angular diameter . If we represent a succession of such blurs by a chain of larger discs , it ...
... effect of a flowing line . It must be recollected that the eye can perceive nothing finer than a minute blur of one 300th part of an inch in angular diameter . If we represent a succession of such blurs by a chain of larger discs , it ...
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... have been liable to two mistakes . A mistake in a figure would have exactly the same effect on the outline as a rent in the paper on which a similar outline had been drawn , which had not 24 [ Jan. 27 , Mr. Francis Galton.
... have been liable to two mistakes . A mistake in a figure would have exactly the same effect on the outline as a rent in the paper on which a similar outline had been drawn , which had not 24 [ Jan. 27 , Mr. Francis Galton.
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... effect of electric currents for cooking purposes has no doubt been admired by most of you at the Crystal Palace Exhibition last year ; and when we remember that these cooking utensils consume fuel only during the time they are actually ...
... effect of electric currents for cooking purposes has no doubt been admired by most of you at the Crystal Palace Exhibition last year ; and when we remember that these cooking utensils consume fuel only during the time they are actually ...
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... at their central station more uniformly at work . The introduction of electricity as motive power will apparently present a strong contrast to the effect steam has had D 2 1893. ] 35 on Theory and Practice in Electrical Science .
... at their central station more uniformly at work . The introduction of electricity as motive power will apparently present a strong contrast to the effect steam has had D 2 1893. ] 35 on Theory and Practice in Electrical Science .
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Seite 417 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor ; suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance: that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature ; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Seite 417 - By your beauty, which confesses Some chief Beauty conquering you — By our grand heroic guesses Through your falsehood at the True, — We will weep not ! earth shall roll Heir to each god's aureole — And Pan is dead. Earth outgrows the mythic fancies Sung beside her in her youth, And those debonair romances Sound but dull beside the truth. Phoebus' chariot-course is run : Look up, poets, to the sun ! Pan, Pan is dead.
Seite 16 - I was often unable to think of external things as having external existence, and I communed with all that I saw as something not apart from, but inherent in, my own immaterial nature. Many times while going to school have I grasped at a wall or tree to recall myself from this abyss of idealism to the reality.
Seite 574 - And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field: upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life...
Seite 570 - UNDER the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
Seite 194 - But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on...
Seite 568 - Whereas my birth and spirit rather took The way that takes the town; Thou didst betray me to a ling'ring book, And wrap me in a gown.
Seite 175 - Welsh] to which I am accustomed, is " not slow and harsh, but lively and rapid, while the melody
Seite 583 - Most men, finding themselves the authors of their own disgrace, rail the louder against God or destiny. Most men, when they repent, oblige their friends to share the bitterness of that repentance. But he had held an inquest and passed sentence : mene, mene ; and condemned himself to smiling silence.
Seite 572 - As a matter of fact, although few things are spoken of with more fearful whisperings than this prospect of death, few have less influence on conduct under healthy circumstances. We have all heard...