Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, Volume 21

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American Philosophical Society., 1884
 

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Página 72 - All those things are passed away like a shadow, and as a post that hasteth by ; and as a ship that passeth over the waves of the water, which when it is gone by, the trace thereof cannot be found, neither the pathway of the keel in the waves ; or as when a bird hath flown through the air, there is no token of her way to be found, but the light air being beaten with the stroke of her wings, and parted with the violent noise and motion of them, is passed through, and therein afterwards no sign where...
Página 57 - In such wise that the lambs, who do not know. Come back from pasture fed upon the wind, And not to see the harm doth not excuse them. Christ did not to his first disciples say, ' Go forth, and to the world preach idle tales...
Página 121 - the sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every motion which takes place on the surface of the earth. By its heat are produced all winds, and those disturbances in the electric equilibrium of the atmosphere which give rise to the phenomena of lightning, and probably also to those of terrestrial magnetism and the aurora.
Página 216 - River epoch, but contain no fossils. Below this deposit is a third bed of drab clay, which swells and cracks on exposure to weather, which rests on a thick bed of white and gray sand, more or less mixed with gravel. This bed, with the overlying clay, probably belongs to the Laramie period, as the beds lower in the series certainly do. The deposit as observed does not extend over ten miles in north and south diameter. The east and west extent was not determined.
Página 329 - An act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the Society of the United Brethren for propagating the Gospel among the Heathen, (a) SEC.
Página 658 - By separate confinement, therefore, it is intended to punish those who will not control their wicked passions and propensities, thereby violating divine and human laws; and moreover to effect this punishment, without terminating the life of the culprit in the midst of his wickedness, or making a mockery of justice by forming such into communities of hardened, and corrupting transgressors, who enjoy each other's society, and contemn the very power which thus vainly seeks their restoration, and idly...
Página 659 - In separate confinement, the prisoners will not know who are undergoing punishment at the same time with themselves, and thus will be afforded one of the greatest protections to such as may happily be enabled to form resolutions to behave well when they are discharged.
Página 654 - In the preamble it is declared, that previous laws for the punishment of criminals had failed of success, " from the communication with each other not being sufficiently restrained within the places of confinement, and it is hoped that the addition of unremitted solitude to laborious employment, as far as it can be effected, will contribute as much to reform as to deter...
Página 326 - I traced the origin of the inferior sectorial to a primitive five-tubercled or "tubercular sectorial" type. Farther than this I did not go, and made no attempt to derive the few cases of triangular superior molars then known, nor the type of the superior sectorial. The revelations of the Puerco fauna show, that the superior molars of both ungulate and unguiculate mammalia have been derived from a tritubercular type ; and that the inferior true molars of both have been derived from a "tubercular sectorial
Página 301 - It has been fully established by experiment that it is possible to design and construct a balloon which shall possess the conditions necessary for aerial navigation, ie, which shall have a form of small resistance, shall be stable and easy to manage, and, if driven through the air, shall be capable...

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