Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, Zväzok 41The Society, 1910 |
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Strana 8 - There are seven windows in the head : two nostrils, two eyes, two ears, and a mouth ; so in the heavens there are two favorable stars, two unpropitious, two luminaries, and Mercury alone undecided and indifferent. From which and many other similar phenomena of nature, such as the seven metals, etc., which it were tedious to enumerate, we gather that the number of planets is necessarily seven.
Strana 16 - that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle, with a force whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of their distances from each other.
Strana 35 - It is statute and ordanit throw all the Realme that all barronis and frehaldaris that ar of substance, put thair eldest sonnis and airis to the sculis, fra thai be aucht or nyne yeiris of age, and till remane at the grammer sculis quhill thai be competentlie foundit and haue perfite latyne. And thereftir to remane thre yeris at the sculis of art and Jure, sua that thai may haue knawlege and vnderstanding of the lawis.
Strana 8 - Moreover, the satellites are invisible to the naked eye, and therefore can have no influence on the earth, and therefore would be useless, and therefore do not exist.
Strana 44 - And whereas it is desirable to amend and extend the provisions of the law of Scotland on the subject of education, in such manner that the means of procuring efficient education for their children may be furnished and made available to the whole people of Scotland...
Strana 238 - It is certainly possible that you may love me, and if you shall ever do so I shall be the happiest man in the world. Will you make a fair bargain with me? If you should happen to love me, will you own it?
Strana 245 - I am absolutely certain that my mode of biography, which gives not only a History of Johnson's visible progress through the world, and of his publications, but a view of his mind in his letters and conversations, is the most perfect that can be conceived, and will be more of a Life than any work that has ever yet appeared.
Strana 104 - A habitual drunkard means a person who " not being amenable to any jurisdiction in lunacy, is notwithstanding, by reason of habitual intemperate drinking of intoxicating liquor, at times dangerous to himself or herself or to others, or incapable of managing himself or herself, and his or her affairs.
Strana 132 - affect to touch the stars, or write the wonders of the poles ; but rather, with the common human voice that is lamenting in this land, I write the ills I see. God knows, my wish is to be useful ; that is the prayer that directs my labour. No hatred urges me. In the Voice of my Crying there will be nothing doubtful, for every man's knowledge will be its best interpreter.
Strana 228 - A young fellow whose happiness was always centred in London, who had at last got there, and had begun to taste its delights, and who had got his mind filled with the most gay ideas — getting into the Guards, being about Court, enjoying the happiness of the beau monde, and the company of men of genius...