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Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 686 - February 17, 1877Has the idea ever occurred to any one that at all times there are ships of one kind or other floating about at sea without a living creature on board? They...

Beitrag zur Beurteilung der Lehren Machs - Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der DoktorwürdeDas Wort des Naturforschers wiegt schwer, wo immer heute erkenntnistheoretische oder metaphysische Fragen von einer exakten Philosophie geprft werden. Die Zeiten sind vorbei, wo das Bild der Welt in Urzeugung dem Haupte des...

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 109, August 24, 1895The Irish Yolk.In the name of the Profiteggs! Irish co-operators have already made giant strides in the production of milk and butter, and now the Irish Co-operative Agency has decided, so says the Cork Daily...

VolcanoesVolcanoes destroy and volcanoes create. The catastrophic eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980, made clear the awesome destructive power of a volcano. Yet, over a time span longer than human memory and record, volcanoes have played a key role in forming...

How Paris Amuses ItselfIt is the small boy who crawls under the circus tent who most keenly enjoys the show. He has watched while the big double-top canvas was being raised and staked taut, transforming the familiar pasture-lot into a magic realm, more alluring...

The Eternal Boy: Being the Story of the Prodigious HickeyShrimp Davis, on the platform, piped forth the familiar periods of Phillips's oration on Toussaint L'Ouverture, while the Third Form in declamation, disposed to sleep, stirred fitfully on one another's shoulders, resenting the adolescent squeak...

Les chats: Histoire; Moeurs; Observations; Anecdotes.Il peut paratre singulier que de longues tudes soient consacres un simple individu, au chat, qui, quoique rsumant une partie des facults des flins, ne saurait cependant donner une ide complte des tres plus considrables de la mme race;...

Die Dinge, die unendlich uns umkreisen Kaum, da Abende uns so verschnen Voll von Freundschaft und von Glanz der Fraun, Da wir uns zu reiner Tiefe staun, Da wir wachsend in die Leere tnen Und die toten Stunden von uns taun. Wenn wir in...

Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany 1470-1670To add a volume such as the present to the existing multitude of books about books calls for some apology. My excuse must be that many of the best herbals, especially the...

Storia dei musulmani di Sicilia, vol. II Al contrario della stanca societ bizantina che sgombrava di Sicilia, la musulmana che le sottentr, portava in seno elementi di attivit, progresso e discordia. Nel primo Libro, toccammo gli ordini generali dei Musulmani, e come si assettarono...

Storia dei musulmani di Sicilia, vol. I Non ostante la cultura delle colonie musulmane che tennero la Spagna e la Sicilia e dettero tante parti di civilt all'Europa, egli avvenuto che la storia loro rimanesse per molti secoli oscura e trasandata, quasi di popoli...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 685 - February 10, 1877A number of years ago, when temporarily residing at a quiet sea-side resort in the south of England, time hung heavy on our hands. We had no conversable acquaintances, no books...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 684 - February 3, 1877Discussions respecting suitable employments for women have for the last few years caused much unpleasant excitement. Society is divided on the subject. Shall women study to be medical practitioners or not?...

The Origin of Man and of His SuperstitionsThe volume now published explains in its first part an hypothesis that the human race has descended from some ape-like stock by a series of changes which began and, until recently, were maintained by the practice of...

Goethe and Schiller: An Historical RomanceThe honest and peaceful inhabitants of Mannheim, the capital of the Palatinate, had long since retired to rest; the streets were deserted, and the houses wrapped in darkness. Only high up in the little bow window of a corner...

Der Besuch im Carcer.Mit der hier vorliegenden siebenundvierzigsten Auflage geht die Humoreske Der Besuch im Carcer in den Verlag von Fr. Thiel zu Leipzig ber. Der Herr Verleger hat dem Verfasser den Wunsch ausgedrckt, diese Auflage als die erste, die unter der neuen Flagge...

Mijn verlustiging[Pg vii] Want waarlijk, zo eenige hartstocht tot 's menschen geluk dienstbaar is, gelijk ze in de daad alle zijn, 't is bij uitstek de liefde. Zij, die het hart door een' Hemelschen gloed verwarmt, uitzet, en met den zuiversten wellust vervult! die...

Gerichtliche Leichen-Oeffnungen. Erstes Hundert.Schon in wenigen Wochen ist eine zweite Auflage dieser Schrift nthig geworden. Diesen ehrenden und berraschenden Erfolg will ich keinesweges dem Werthe der letzteren, wohl aber dem gesteigerten Antheil beimessen, welchen die gerichtliche Medicin in neuester Zeit bei den Aerzten gefunden...

The Miner's Friend; Or, An Engine to Raise Water by FireSIR, Your Majesty having been graciously pleased to permit an experiment before you at Hampton-court, of a small model of my engine described in the following treatise, and at that time to show a...

Ueber die Arsenikvergiftung ihre Hülfe und gerichtliche AusmittelungEine Menge Ursachen, ich mag sie nicht herzhlen, haben seit einigen Jahrhunderten die Wrde jener gottnachahmenden Wissenschaft, der praktischen Heilkunde zur elenden Brodklauberei, zur Symptomenbertnchung, zum erniedrigenden Rezepthandel, Gott erbarms, herunter getrieben, zum Handwerke, das die Hippokrate...