Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
Transcribers Note: An effort has been made to keep the project as authentic as possible. Two printers errors have been corrected: "toothach" has been changed to "toothache", and "recals" has been changed to "recalls". Hyphenated words have been standardized as well.
The late Earl of Rosse, with a devotion to science which has few parallels, constructed this gigantic telescope, at his seat, Parsonstown, in the south of Ireland. To the frame...
10. Part 10The conversion into solid land of the Lake of Beemster, in North Holland, is, after the Haarlemmermeer Polder (which is twice and a half its size), the largest specimen in the N...
3. Part 3Dr. Edmonston in his interesting "_View of the Zetland Islands_," relates that the hooded Crow sometimes engages in merry meetings, but, savage-like, concludes by a sanguinary s...
6. Part 6Sydney Smith has thus sketched a few of the natural wonders of this new world:--"In this remote part of the earth, Nature (having made horses, oxen, ducks, geese, oaks, elms, an...
7. Part 7James Ferguson and his wife led a cat-and-dog life, and she is not once alluded to in the philosopher's autobiography. About the year 1750, one evening, while he was delivering...
8. Part 8The plan of writing with rice-water, to be rendered visible by the application of iodine, was practised with great success in the correspondence during the war in Affghanistan....
2. Part 2When the speed of the locomotive was set beyond question, prejudice then took the alarm about safety, and a very strong stand was from time to time made for a limitation of spee...
4. Part 4In 1841, M. Delectuze discovered, among the manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci, an entry carrying a knowledge of the steam-engine, applied to warfare, to at least as far back as t...
5. Part 5Dr. Buckland relates that in certain places liable to earthquakes, their extent has been measured by _bowls of treacle_, the inclination of the treacle in the bowl showing the q...
11. Part 11About 40,000 lbs. of fossil ivory--that is to say, the tusks of at least 100 Mammoths--are bartered for every year in New Siberia, so that in a period of 200 years of trade with...
12. Part 12X. IV. THE CANTERBURY BYRON'S POETICAL TALES AND FAERIE WORKS. Illustrated by QUEEN, with other Poems eminent Artists. of CHAUCER and SPENSER. Edited for Popular Perusal, V. wit...
1. Part 1Transcribers Note: An effort has been made to keep the project as authentic as possible. Two printers errors have been corrected: "toothach" has been changed to "toothache", and...
13. Part 13*** This elegant and useful Series of Books has been specially prepared for School and College Prizes: they are, however, equally suitable for General Presentation. In selecting...