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There is a German proverb which suggests that marriage is the opposite to a fever attack, it begins very hot, and ends very cold.
Smear the flange of the bell jar with resin ointment and apply the jar firmly to the glass slab, covering the cultivations-so arranged that the long tube passes with its lower end into the glass dish at a point directly opposite to the pyrogallic acid tablets.
The intense white light diffused from the surface of the soda forms an excellent substitute for the white cloud, which, when opposite the sun, and of considerable size, is the best daylight, as the pure sky opposite to the sun is the worst.
Having considered those vivid repercussions of light, i found them to be made partly from the plain external surface of these regularly figured bodies (which afforded the vivid reflexions) and partly to be made from within the somewhat pellucid body, that is, from some surface of the body, opposite to that superficies of it which was next the eye.
being much longer then those directly opposite to them on the upper; and divers of them, such as 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, -c.
each of them shap'd much like this of abcd, in the fourth Figure, the part ac being a ridge, prominency, or stem, and b and d the corners of two small thin Plates that grow unto the small stalk in the middle, so that they make a kind of little feather; each of these Plates lie one close to another, almost like a company of sloping ridge or gutter Tyles; they grow on each side of the stalk opposite to one another, by two and two, from top to bottom, in the manner express'd in the fifth Figure, the tops of the lower covering the roots of the next above them; the under side of each of these laminated bodies, is of a very dark and opacous substance, and suffers very few Rays to be trajected, but reflects them all toward that side from whence they come, much like the foil of a Looking-glass; but their upper sides seem to me to consist of a multitude of thin plated bodies, which are exceeding thin, and lie very close together, and thereby, like mother of Pearl shells, do not onely reflect a very brisk light, but tinge that light in a most curious manner; and by means of various positions, in respect of the light, they reflect back now one colour, and then another, and those most vividly.
Take a sphÁrical Crystalline Viol, such as is describ'd in the fifth Figure ABCD, and, having fill'd it with pure clear Water, expose it to the Sun beams; then taking a piece of very fine Venice Paper, apply it against that side of the Globe that is opposite to the Sun, as against the side BC, and you shall perceive a bright red Ring to appear, caus'd by the refraction of the Rays, AAAA, which is made by the Globe; in which Experiment, if the Glass and Water be very cleer, so that there be no Sands nor bubbles in the Glass, nor dirt in the Water, you shall not perceive any appearance of any other colour.
The globule becomes surrounded with a membrane of cellulose, and soon puts out from the point opposite to the opening of the conidium a thick tube which grows in the same manner as the germ-tube of the conidia in other species.
So, in all those applications that men have made of alcohol through the ages, we find on careful examination, that in every case the alcohol actually has an effect opposite to that which has been attributed to it.
Having often observed in the dissections of men, as well as of brutes, that the optic nerve is not inserted exactly opposite to the pupil, that is, in the place where the picture of the objects upon which we look directly, is made: and that in man it is somewhat higher, and on the side towards the nose, he had the curiosity to examine the reason of this structure, by throwing the image of an object on this part of the eye.
This state of the body, which is opposite to the former, Dr.
Opposite to the negative on the other side of the box is placed a sheet of white cardboard bent slightly to the arc of a circle.
He seated himself in an armchair-the chair which had been hers-opposite to where David Willis sat with his head bowed in his hands; he coughed, with a little shade of annoyance in the cough, as of one who is not receiving proper attention.
immediately opposite to us rose the Mischabel, with its two great peaks, the Grubenhorn and the T§schhorn, each barely under 15,000 feet in height.
Between the Ponts and the promontory of Tr-laporte the glacier passes another point of contrary flexure, its convex curvature opposite to Tr-laporte being turned towards the base of the Aiguille du Moine, on the eastern side.
Sunday morning found us opposite to Lisbon, and at midnight we rounded Cape St.
The sun sank lower and the setting rays fell upon the foliage, and every leaf showed like a leaf of gold, and the river lay in shadow and became ghostly, and the windows of Trinity Library opposite to them gl¥wed, and the New Court of St.
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