Memoir of Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford: With Notices of His DaughterEstes and Lauriat, 1871 - 680 pàgines |
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Memoir of Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford: With Notices of His Daughter George Edward Ellis Visualització completa - 1848 |
Memoir of Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford: With Notices of His Daughter George Edward Ellis Visualització completa - 1871 |
Memoir of Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford: With Notices of His Daughter George Edward Ellis Visualització completa - 1871 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 482 - It is hardly necessary to add, that any thing which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance...
Pàgina 266 - Premium to the author of any important discovery or useful improvement in light or heat, which shall have been made and published by printing, or in any way made known to the public, in any part of the continent of America, or any of the American Islands; preference always being given to such discoveries as, in the opinion of the Academy, shall tend most to promote the good of mankind...
Pàgina 480 - It would be difficult to describe the surprise and astonishment expressed in the countenances of the bystanders, on seeing so large a quantity of cold water heated, and actually made to boil, without any fire.
Pàgina 483 - Nobody surely, in his sober senses, has ever pretended to understand the mechanism of gravitation; and yet what sublime discoveries was our immortal Newton enabled to make, merely by the investigation of the laws of its action...
Pàgina 381 - British empire, a public institution for diffusing the knowledge and facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements, and for teaching, by courses of philosophical lectures and experiments, the application of science to the common purposes of life.
Pàgina 115 - I put no hopes on the fair appearances of outward behavior, though it is uncandid to suppose all mean to deceive. Some wish to do a service who have it not in their power ; all wish to be thought of importance and significancy, and this often leads to deceit. This young man, when a shop-lad to my next...
Pàgina 160 - Defender of the Faith &c., and in the Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety five.
Pàgina 560 - I have the misfortune to be married to one of the most imperious, tyrannical, unfeeling women that ever existed, and whose perseverance in pursuing an object is equal to her profound cunning and wickedness in framing it.
Pàgina 188 - ... expressed in so affecting a manner when I was dangerously ill? that they went publicly in a body in procession to the cathedral church, where they had divine service performed, and put up public prayers for my recovery? that four years afterwards, on hearing that I was again dangerously ill at Naples, they, of their own accord, set apart an hour each evening, after they had finished their work in the Military Workhouse, to pray for me?
Pàgina 383 - Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor.