Proceedings of the Literary & Philosophical Society of Liverpool, Nummer 16

Voorkant
 

Geselecteerde pagina's

Overige edities - Alles bekijken

Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen

Populaire passages

Pagina 70 - Good sir, why do you start ; and seem to fear Things that do sound so fair? — I' the name of truth, Are ye fantastical, or that indeed Which outwardly ye show? My noble partner You greet with present grace, and great prediction...
Pagina 17 - Herschel considered' that the prevalence of land and water in two opposite hemispheres " proves the force by which the continents are sustained to be one of tumefaction, inasmuch as it indicates a situation of the centre of gravity of the total mass of the earth somewhat eccentric relatively to that of the general figure of the external surface — the eccentricity lying in the direction of our antipodes : and is therefore a proof of the comparative lightness of the materials of the terrestrial hemisphere2.
Pagina 56 - I am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education to request that you will be good enough to furnish me with twenty copies of your pamphlet " On the Opportunities of Advancing Science enjoyed by the Mercantile Marine," to send to all the Navigation Schools under this Department.
Pagina 73 - When you durst do it, then you were a man ; And to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. Nor time, nor place, Did then adhere, and yet you would make both : They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you.
Pagina 54 - ... Secretary to the Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society, brought the matter before the council and members. This Society, established in 1812, has just celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, and is the oldest scientific society in Liverpool. An addition to the laws was duly passed and confirmed, to the effect that the Society " be empowered to elect as Associates masters of vessels or others engaged in marine pursuits, who may have peculiar facilities for adding to the scientific interest...
Pagina 20 - The greatest depths at which the bottom of the sea has been reached with the plummet are in the North Atlantic Ocean, and the places where it has been fathomed do not show it to be deeper than twenty-five thousand feet.
Pagina 49 - ... serves to place in the strongest possible light the immense value which would accrue to Science were a large body of such men, instead of only one or two, constantly employing themselves in a similar manner. We cannot . expect all captains of vessels, or indeed perhaps any, to use in this direction the intelligence of a Darwin or a Huxley ; but it is not, perhaps, too much to look for that they should exercise a Moderate degree of interest in the acquisition of rudimentary information, and a...
Pagina 86 - ... the end of the fifth, or beginning of the sixth century, of Italian origin, at the period of the Gothic kingdom of Italy.
Pagina 13 - A paper was then read, of which the following is an abstract : — ON THE EXCESS OF WATER IN THE REGION OF THE EARTH ABOUT NEW ZEALAND : ITS CAUSES AND ITS EFFECTS.
Pagina 52 - Bcarce any of the amenities of life, it cannot be otherwise than that their minds should degenerate to a dull blank, or even to a worse condition; and it too often happens that in this respect the captain is in no degree superior to his crew.

Bibliografische gegevens