The Kansas City Review of Science and Industry, Հատոր 4Press of Ramsey, Millet & Hudson, 1880 |
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The Kansas City Review of Science and Industry Theodore Spencer Case,Warren Watson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1877 |
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Էջ 430 - As the conditionally limited (which we may briefly call the conditioned) is thus the only possible object of knowledge and of positive thought — thought necessarily supposes conditions. To think is to condition; and conditional limitation is the fundamental law of the possibility of thought.
Էջ 374 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Էջ 735 - Survey, and the classification of the public lands and examination of the Geological Structure, mineral resources and products of the national domain...
Էջ 530 - Before leaving this part of the subject it may be well to remark...
Էջ 373 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Էջ 525 - ... that in ancient times a herd of these tremendous animals came to the Big-bone licks, and began an universal destruction of the bear, deer, elks, buffaloes, and other animals which had been created for the use of the Indians : that the Great Man above, looking down and seeing this, was so enraged that he seized his lightning, descended on the earth, seated himself on a...
Էջ 373 - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Էջ 374 - And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
Էջ 485 - A very slight declivity suffices to give the running motion to water. Three inches per mile, in a smooth straight channel, gives a velocity of about three miles per hour. The Ganges, which gathers the waters of the Himalaya mountains, the loftiest in the world, is, at...
Էջ 386 - War be, and he hereby is, authorized and required to provide for taking meteorological observations at the military stations in the interior of the continent and at other points in the States and Territories of the United States, and for giving notice on the northern lakes and on the seacoast, by magnetic telegraph and marine signals, of the approach and force of storms.