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Page 222 - I thought it derogatory to my new " dignity as a manufacturer, to make dolls' eyes. He took " me into a room quite as wide, and perhaps twice the " length of this, and we had just room to walk between " stacks, from the floor to the ceiling, of parts of dolls.
Page 222 - But I saw enough to convince me, that " he wanted a great many eyes ; and, as the article ap" peared quite in my own line of business, I said I would " take an order by way of experiment ; and he showed me " several specimens. I copied the order. He ordered " various quantities, and of various sizes and qualities. " On returning to the Tavistock hotel, I found that the " order amounted to upwards of 500?.
Page 74 - ... is passed either before a single pole, or between the opposite poles of a magnet, or near electro-magnetic poles, whether ferruginous...
Page 236 - SKETCH OF THE GEOLOGY OF PULO PINANG AND THE NEIGHBOURING ISLANDS.
Page 27 - ... where one foot succeeds the other as on the land ; yet no one, as far as I am aware, has remarked that diving fowls, while under water, impel and row themselves forward by a motion of their wings, as well as by the impulse of their feet : but such is really the case, as any person may easily be convinced, who will observe ducks when hunted by dogs in a clear pond. Nor do I know that...
Page 97 - Is not vision performed chiefly by the vibrations of this medium, excited in the bottom of the eye by the rays of light and propagated through the solid, pellucid, and uniform capillamenta of the optic nerves into the place of sensation?
Page 97 - When a man in the dark presses either corner of his eye with his finger, and turns his eye away from his finger, he will see a circle of colours like those in the feather of a peacock's tail. And this appearance continues about a second of time after the eye and finger have remained quiet.
Page 167 - I came, and laid out for intelligence of all Places where the Entrails of the Earth were laid open, either by Nature (if I may so say) or by Art, and humane Industry. And wheresoever I had notice of any considerable natural Spelunca or Grotto ; any digging for Wells of Water, or for Earths, Clays, Marie, Sand, Gravel, Chalk, Cole, Stone, Marble, Ores of Metals, or the like ; I forthwith had recourse thereunto : and taking a just account of every...
Page 225 - ... spheres, glowing with light and heat radiant from the same central source, — and that the members of those kindred systems almost lost in the remoteness of space, and perceptible only from the countless multitude of their congregated globes, — should each be no more than a floating chaos of unformed matter, — or, being all the work of the same Almighty Architect, that no living eye should be gladdened by their forms of beauty, that no intellectual being should expand its faculties in decyphering...
Page 287 - ... W. There are many more instances of this to be met with in the world, if we may judge from circumstances, which make it highly probable, that it obtains in a great number of places, and in several they seem to put it almost out of doubt. The reader is not to suppose, however, that, in any instances, the highest rise of the ridge, and the inclination of the strata from thence to the countries on each side, is perfectly uniform; for they have frequently very considerable inequalities, and these...