The Philosophy of Life, and Philosophy of Language: In a Course of LecturesH. G. Bohn, 1847 - 567 pages |
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Page 121 - While the watery vapour was escaping by the glass tubes, I fastened at each end an apparatus which chemists employ for collecting carbonic acid ; that to the left was filled with concentrated sulphuric acid, and the other with a solution of potash. By means of the boiling heat, every thing living, and all germs in the flask or in the tubes, were destroyed ; and all access was cut off by the sulphuric acid on the one side, and by the potash on the other.
Page 122 - I sucked with my mouth, several times a day, the open end of the apparatus filled with the solution of potash, by which process the air entered my mouth from the flask through the caustic liquid, and the atmospheric air from without entered the flask through the sulphuric acid. The air was, of course, not...
Page 122 - I placed near it an open vessel, with the same substances that had been introduced into the flask, and, also, after having subjected them to a boiling temperature. In order now to renew constantly the air within the flask, I sucked with my mouth, several times a day, the open end of the apparatus filled with...
Page 122 - May till the beginning of August, I continued uninterruptedly the renewal of the air in the flask, without being able, by the aid of the microscope, to perceive any living animal or vegetable substance, although, during the whole of the time, I made my observations almost daily on the edge of the liquid : and when at last I separated the different parts of the apparatus, I could not find in the whole liquid the slightest trace of infusoria, of confervae, or of mould.
Page 137 - This miserable fate Suffer the wretched souls of those, who lived Without or praise or blame, with that ill band Of angels mix'd, who nor rebellious proved, Nor yet were true to God, but for themselves Were only. From his bounds Heaven drove them forth Not to impair his lustre; nor the depth Of Hell receives them, lest the accursed tribe Should glory thence with exultation vain.
Page 389 - So profound, moreover, and lasting is this our intrinsic dualism and duplicity - (and I use the term here, not in its usual moral sense, but in a higher signification, which is purely psychological and metaphysical) - so deeply is this dualism rooted in our consciousness, that even when we are, or at least think ourselves, alone, we still think as two, and are constrained as it were to recognise our inmost profoundest being as essentially dramatic.
Page 121 - I mixed various animal and vegetable substances; I then closed it with a good cork, through which I passed two glass tubes bent at right angles, the whole being air-tight. It was next placed in a sand-bath, and heated until the water boiled violently, and thus all parts had reached a temperature of 212° F.
Page 395 - In those languages which appear to be at the lowest grade of intellectual culture, we frequently observe a very high and elaborate degree of art in their grammatical structure. This is especially the case with the Basque and the Lapponian, and many of the American...
Page 122 - ... living matter, or of matter capable of becoming animated, were taken up by the sulphuric acid and destroyed. From the 28th of May until the...
Page 291 - Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the Lord; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.