Discovery: A Monthly Popular Journal of Knowledge, Volume 7John Murray, 1926 - Science news |
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... Coloured Slug Pest , The Slug Pest , Its Problems and Extermination Smell , Chemistry and the Sense of Smell , The Sense of . Spleen and its Functions , The Sudan : Its Exploration and Development Suffolk was Sub - Tropical , When ...
... Coloured Slug Pest , The Slug Pest , Its Problems and Extermination Smell , Chemistry and the Sense of Smell , The Sense of . Spleen and its Functions , The Sudan : Its Exploration and Development Suffolk was Sub - Tropical , When ...
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... colour but in character , for whereas the contained stones in the red upper layer are in the same condition as stones lying about in the ravine to - day , those in the yellow layer beneath are so altered in structure that the smaller ...
... colour but in character , for whereas the contained stones in the red upper layer are in the same condition as stones lying about in the ravine to - day , those in the yellow layer beneath are so altered in structure that the smaller ...
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... colour to the solution . A comparison of this colour with the colour chart supplied by the firm will enable the observer to read off the pH of his aquarium to within 0.5 . Even when greater accuracy is demanded , these tabloids are very ...
... colour to the solution . A comparison of this colour with the colour chart supplied by the firm will enable the observer to read off the pH of his aquarium to within 0.5 . Even when greater accuracy is demanded , these tabloids are very ...
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... colours . FOLIO No. 1 OF VAN DER STEL'S JOURNAL . in warmth even to cotton . This is one of their fundamental limitations . Strictly speaking , this production of continuous threads is not spinning at all , but it is no more inaccurate ...
... colours . FOLIO No. 1 OF VAN DER STEL'S JOURNAL . in warmth even to cotton . This is one of their fundamental limitations . Strictly speaking , this production of continuous threads is not spinning at all , but it is no more inaccurate ...
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... Colour Varieties . Viscose is to be obtained in an almost infinite variety of colours . With care it washes excellently , and unlike silk does not turn yellow in the process . Its slippery surface repels dust and dirt for a long time ...
... Colour Varieties . Viscose is to be obtained in an almost infinite variety of colours . With care it washes excellently , and unlike silk does not turn yellow in the process . Its slippery surface repels dust and dirt for a long time ...
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Page 378 - CAPTAIN or Colonel, or Knight in arms, Whose chance on these defenceless doors may seize, If deed of honour did thee ever please, Guard them, and him within protect from harms. He can requite thee, for he knows the charms...
Page 377 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene! How often have I paused on every charm, The sheltered cot...
Page 378 - ... harms. He can requite thee; for he knows the charms That call fame on such gentle acts as these, And he can spread thy name o'er lands and seas, Whatever clime the sun's bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses...
Page 379 - A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
Page 137 - Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too, While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue; Then in a wailful choir, the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies; And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn; Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft, And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
Page 376 - At our feast, we had a play called Twelve Night, or What You Will. Much like the Comedy of Errors, or Menechmi in Plautus ; but most like and near to that in Italian called Inganni.
Page 310 - Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour: Brightness falls from the air, Queens have died young and fair, Dust hath closed Helen's eye. I am sick, I must die. Lord, have mercy on us!
Page 353 - ... let holy water be made and sprinkled in the said temples, let altars be erected, and relics placed. For if those temples are well built, it is requisite that they be converted from the worship of devils to the service of the true God ; that the nation, seeing that their temples are not destroyed, may remove error from their hearts, and knowing and adoring the true God, may the more familiarly resort to the places to which they have been accustomed.
Page 377 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade, The...
Page 379 - PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country'].