 ... time-keeping means uniformity of action. But the striking of the clock is essentially a catastrophe ; the hammer might be made to blow up a barrel of gunpowder, or turn on a deluge of water ; and, by proper arrangement, the clock, instead of marking...  His Marriage Vow - Pàgina 248per Caroline Fairfield Corbin - 1874 - 328 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Henry Woodward - 1881 - 634 pàgines
...arrangement the clock, instead of marking the hours, might strike at all sorts of irregular intervals, never twice alike in the intervals, force, or number...Uniformitarian action, and we might have two schools of clock theorists, one studying the hammer and the other the pendulum." These are weighty words, to every... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1869 - 510 pàgines
...marking the hours, might strike at all sorts of irregular intervals, never twice alike in the interval), force, or number of its blows. Nevertheless, all these...uniformitarian action ; and we might have two schools of clock theorist«, oo» studying the hammer and the other the pendulum. The Carboniferom Limculnne of... | |
 | Geological Society of London - 1869 - 674 pàgines
...arrangement, the clock, instead of marking the hours, might strike at all sorts of irregular intervals, never twice alike in the intervals, force, or number...catastrophes would be the result of an absolutely unifonnitarian action ; and we might have two schools of clock-theolists, one studying the hammer and... | |
 | 1869 - 668 pàgines
...arrangement, the clock, instead of marking the hoars, might strike at all sorts of irregular intervals, never twice alike in the intervals, force, or number...irregular and apparently lawless catastrophes would be the results of an absolutely nnitbrmitarian action; and we might have two schouls of clock-theorists, one... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1869 - 506 pàgines
...arrangement' the clocli, inetend of marking the hours, might strike at all sorts of irregular intervals, never twice alike in the intervals^ force, or number of its blows. X-evertheless, all these irregular and apparently lawless catastrophes would be the result of an absolutely... | |
 | Henry Woodward - 1881 - 824 pàgines
...arrangement the clock, instead of marking the hours, might strike at all sorte of irregular intervals, never twice alike in the intervals, force, or number...Uniformitarian action, and we might have two schools of clock theorists, one studying the hammer and the other the pendulum." Tbese are weighty words, to every... | |
 | 1888 - 632 pàgines
...arrangement, the clock, instead of striking the hoars, might strike at all sorts of irregular intervals, never twice alike in the intervals, force, or number...Uniformitarian action, and we might have two schools of clock theorists, one studying the hammer and the other the pendulum." While therefore we are inclined... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1888 - 572 pàgines
...arrangement, the clock, instead of striking the hours, might strike at all sorts of irregular intervals, never twice alike in the intervals, force, or number...Uniformitarian action, and we might have two schools of clock theorists, one studying the hammer and the other the pendulum.' — Address to the Geological... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1894 - 428 pàgines
...proper arrangement, the clock, instead of marking the hours, might strike at all sorts of irregular periods, never twice alike, in the intervals, force,...uniformitarian action ; and we might have two schools of clocktheorists, one studying the hammer and the other the pendulum. Still less is there any necessary... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1901 - 714 pàgines
...arrangement, the clock, instead of marking the hours, might strike at all sorts of irregular intervals, never twice alike in the intervals, force, or number...uniformitarian action ; and we might have two schools of clocktheorists, one studying the hammer and the other the pendulum. Still less is there any necessary... | |
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