The Leeds Correspondent, Volume 4

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John Ryley, John Gawthorp, John Whitley
James Nichols., 1822 - Mathematics - 4 pages
 

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Page 198 - I thought how pleasant were the morn Of silence, in the solitude ; To hear the forest bee on wing ; Or by the stream, or woodland spring, To lie and muse alone — alone, While the tinkling waters moan, Or such wild sounds arise, as say, Man and noise are far away. Now, surely, thought I...
Page 17 - Zarina ! I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse — borne away with every breath ! Misplaced upon the throne — misplaced in life. I know not what I could have been, but feel I am not what I should be — let it end.
Page 20 - I must pay dearly for the desolation Now brought upon thee. Had I never loved But thee, I should have been an unopposed Monarch of honouring nations. To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves ! Enter MYRRHA.
Page 186 - Sunday; where he sat on a tombstone after the service, with his hat a little on one side, holding forth to a small circle of auditors; and, as I presumed, expounding the law and the prophets; until, on drawing a little nearer, I found he was only expatiating on the merits of a brown horse.
Page 222 - ... trees. Such is a brief account of a work undertaken and executed by a single individual, and which has excited a very high degree of interest in every part of Europe. We regret to add, that this magnificent structure no longer exists, and that scarcely a trace of it is to be seen upon the flanks of Mount Pilatus. Political circumstances having taken away the principal source of the demand for timber, and no other market having been found, the operation of cutting and transporting the trees necessarily...
Page 217 - Rupp was himself obliged, more than once, to be suspended by cords, in order to descend precipices many hundred feet high ; and, in the first months of the undertaking, he was attacked with a violent fever, which deprived him of the power of superintending his workmen. Nothing, however, could diminish his invincible perseverance.
Page 49 - J inch long, and of the same breadth as the others. These were seen to move in the same manner as a worm does in water. When taken up on the finger, they retained their shining faculty even when dry. When brought near to a candle, their light disappeared ; but, by minute attention, an extremely fine white filament could be observed, and lifted upon the point of a pin. It was of an uniform shining colour and form, and about the thickness of a spider's thread. In a gallon of the water, there might...
Page 49 - ... very much resembling the milky-way in the heavens; the luminous appearance of the sea resembling the brighter stars in that constellation. It continued in this condition till past midnight, and disappeared only as day-light advanced. The whiteness prevented us from being able to see either the break or the swell of the sea, although both were considerable; as we knew from the motion of the ship and the noise. There was much light upon deck, as we could discern all the ropes much more distinctly...
Page 204 - In subjecting rubies to high degrees of heat, Dr. Brewster observed a very singular effect produced during their cooling. At a high temperature the red ruby becomes green : as the cooling advances, this green tint gradually fades, and becomes brown, and the redness of this brown tint gradually increases till the mineral has recovered its primitive brilliant red colour. A green ruby suffered no change from heat ; and a bluish green sapphire became much paler at a high heat, but resumed its original...
Page 217 - ... seen it. Before any step could be taken in its erection, it was necessary to cut several thousand trees to obtain a passage through the impenetrable thickets ; and as the workmen advanced, men were posted at certain distances in order to point out the road for their return, and to discover, in the gorges, the places where the piles of wood had been established...

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