 | 1857 - 564 pages
...machinery, by merely being placed in a particular direction, and pressed, produce an irresistible force ; that an ounce weight should balance hundreds of pounds by the intervention of a few bars of iron ; that the colour of white should be a mixture of all colours ; that the diamond should be made... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 490 pages
...delighted, more truly astonishing than the fact, that a few pounds of water may, without any machinery, by merely being placed in a particular way, produce an irresistible force ? What can bo more strange, than that an ounce weight should balance hundreds of pounds, by the intervention of... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1859 - 660 pages
...astonishing than the fact, that a few pounds of \vater may, by mere pressure, without any machinery, by merely being placed in a particular way, produce an...any thing surprise us more, than to find that the color of white is a mixture of all others — that red, and blue, and green, and all the rest, merely... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1859 - 686 pages
...astonishing than the fact, thai a few pounds of water may, by mere pressure, without any mochin-ry. by merely being placed in a particular way, produce an...any thing surprise us more, than to find that the color of white is a mixture of all others — that red, and blue, and green, anil all the rest, merely... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1859 - 450 pages
...fact, that a few pounds of water may, without any machinery, by merely being placed in a yvarticular way, produce an irresistible force ? What can be more...extraordinary truths which optical" science discloses ! Can anything surprise us more than to find that the color of white is a mixture of all others ; that red,... | |
 | Education - 1859 - 736 pages
...any machinery. by merely being placed in a particular way, produee an irresistible force ? What ean be more strange, than that an ounce weight should...iron ? Observe the extraordinary truths which optical seience discloses. Can any thing surprise us more, than to find that the color of white is a mixture... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Mathematics - 1860 - 342 pages
...astonishing than the fact, that a few pounds of water may, by mere pressuré, without any machinery — by merely being placed in a particular way, produce an...What can be more strange, than that an ounce weight ishould balance hundreds of pounds, by the intervention of a few bars of thin iron ? Observe the extraordinary... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers (Secondary) - 1866 - 568 pages
...delighted, more truly astonishing than the fact, that a few pounds of water may, without any machinery, by merely being placed in a particular way, produce an...extraordinary truths which "optical science discloses ! Can anything surprise us more, than to find that the color of white is a mixture of all others ; that red,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 pages
...delighted, more truly astonishing than the fact, that a few pounds of water may, without any machinery, by merely being placed in a particular way, produce an...Can any thing surprise us more than to find that the color of white is a mixture of all others ; that red, and blue, and green, and all the rest, merely... | |
 | Goold Brown - English language - 1862 - 362 pages
...Sallust. Who knows bu.11 that God, who made the world, may causo that giant Despair may die. — Bunt/an. What can be more strange than, that an ounce weight should balance hundreds »pf pounds, by the intervention of a few bars of thin iron?z This lovely land, this glorious liberty,... | |
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... by mere pressure, without any machinery, by merely being placed in a particular way, produce an irresistible force? What can be more strange, than that an ounce weight should balance hundreds of pounds, by the intervention of a few bars of thin iron... 
