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Page 217 - Provost and Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine and of Clinical Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania.
Page 139 - ... have few respecting political men or political measures: the present irritation of men's minds in Great Britain, and the discordant state of society on political accounts, is not known there. The government is the government of the people and for the people.
Page 35 - An Essay on Combustion; with a view to a new Art of Dying and Painting, wherein the Phlogistic and Antiphlogistic Hypotheses are proved erroneous, London 1794.
Page 76 - Gerhard, 1809-72, was a native of Philadelphia, and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.
Page 231 - Idea of an Atom, Suggested by the Phenomena of Weight and Temperature.
Page 125 - We shall all meet finally: we only require different degrees of discipline, suited to our different tempers, to prepare us for final happiness.
Page 346 - Die Energie der Welt ist constant. Die Entropie der Welt strebt einem Maximum zu.
Page 250 - This portion, rendered porous .by cooling, was permeated by circulating waters, which dissolved and brought to the surface during successive ages, after the manner of modern mineral springs, the elements of the various systems of crystalline rocks. These rocks thus mark progressive and necessary changes in the mineralogical evolution of the earth.
Page 124 - Even at this time, besides his miscellaneous reading, which was at all times extensive, he read through all the works quoted in his comparison of the different systems of the Grecian philosophers with Christianity; composed that work, and transcribed the whole of it, in less than three months; so that he has left it ready for the press.
Page 190 - Fig. 2, represents the mode in which the junction between the various sheets and tin masses is effected. Between the letters zz, the zinc only is in contact with the tin masses. Between cc the copper alone touches. It may be observed, that, at the back of the frame, ten sheets of copper between cc, and...