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...se from the heirs of a celebrated surgeon; and his own tastes being rather chemical than anatomical, had changed the destina- tion of the block at the... ... with eager students and now lying gaunt and silent, the tables laden with chemical apparatus, the floor strewn with crates and littered with packing ... ...d Poole. “Well, when that masked thing like a monkey jumped from among the chemicals and whipped into the cabinet, it went down my spine like ice. O, ... ...uietest room, you would have said, and, but for the glazed presses full of chemicals, the most commonplace that night in London. Right in the middle t... ...to examine the contents of the cabinet. At one table, there were traces of chemical work, various measured heaps of some white salt being laid on glas... ...pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each, I told myself, could be housed in separate identities, l... ...u- ral to me because they were the expression, and bore the stamp of lower elements in my soul. I hesitated long before I put this theory to the test ... ...d to myself, and in my psychological way, began lazily to inquire into the elements of this illusion, oc- casionally, even as I did so, dropping back ...

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...became due. Madame Claes requested Pierquin to obtain the bill for all the chemicals that had been furnished to her husband. T wo months later, Messie... .... T wo months later, Messieurs Protez and Chiffreville, manu- facturers of chemical products, sent in a schedule of accounts rendered, which amounted ... ...ore especially valuable machinery, by the exorbitant price of certain rare chemicals, and finally by the cost of instruments made to order after the d... ...y accorded to it by Linnaeus), possesses fifty-three simple substances, or elements, whose different combinations make its products. Is it probable th... ...seed germinates, and sprouts from a known en- vironment, and feeds only on elements known by analysis. Cut off the stalks from time to time, till you ... ...ly as if the cress had grown in ordinary earth, beside a brook. Now, those elements did not exist in the brimstone, a simple substance which served fo... ...oned it. Thus the air, the distilled water, the brimstone, and the various elements which analysis finds in the cress, namely, potash, lime, magnesia,... ... were to Claes. After the diamonds were sold in Paris, and the purchase of chemicals was again begun, the unhappy woman never knew another hour’s peac... ...he had borrowed, released his property from en- cumbrance, and resumed his chemical researches; but the House of Claes was deprived of its noblest orn...

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...n matters. There is more excuse for one here than for the amateur maker of chemical theories, or the man who evolves a system of surgery in his leisur... ...It is true, I hold, of all things. Y ou will think perhaps of atoms of the elements as instances of identically similar things, but these are things n... ...THERHOOD THERHOOD THERHOOD THERHOOD The idea of organizing the progressive elements in the social chaos into a regular developing force is one that ha... ...from being a power, would 85 H. G . Wells be an isolation. Manifestly the elements of organization and uniformity were overdone in my Utopia; in this... ...n every other; secession is the beginning of a new integration. The living elements leave the dead or dying form and gradu- 98 First and Last Things ... ...p-boilers which assures its customers that the soap they make “contains no chemicals.” Drugs are supposed to be a mystic diabolical class of substance... ...to his individual fellow creature. They play against each other, providing elements of contradiction and determining a balanced course. It seems to me...

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...Bensington was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a former president of the Chemical Society, and Professor Redwood was Professor of Physiology in the ... .... Besides which it was, as a research, a physiological, quite as much as a chemical inquiry. Professor Redwood was one of those scientific men who are... ...what he called the “growing phase” differed in the proportion of cer- tain elements from their blood and sap on the days when they were not particular... ...ecdotage, with magnifi- cent traditions, aristocratic associations, and no chemical laboratories, and proceeded thence to a venerable college in the v... ...second universal solicitude: BEAUTY SOAP . Not, you remark, mere cleansing chemicals, but something, as they say, “ideal;” and then, completing the tr...

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...gaged in analyzing hair: Chiffreville, his associate in the manufacture of chemical products, told me so. If my discovery should jump with his, my ess... ... up in what I have to say!” cried Cesar, naively. “Popinot, this man has a chemical effect upon me; his voice heats my stomach, and even gives me a sl... ...serves the hair: they don’t know that whale-oil is just as good. No power, chemical, or divine—” “Divine! oh, don’t say that, Monsieur Vauquelin.” “Bu... ... supposed to be passing wakeful nights; finance makes you brusque, so many elements must be brought together to launch an en- terprise,—so much study!... ...lifluous! Some give you clear water soured with lemon, and the rest drugs, chemicals.” Pillerault tried throughout the dinner to fathom this ex- traor... ...or Invention and Improvements. “No cosmetic can make the hair grow, and no chemical preparation can dye it without peril to the seat of intelli- gence...

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...experienced reader that by omitting certain specula- tive and metaphysical elements and by elaborating incident, this book might have been reduced to ... ...u would tell me of the remarkable precisions, the encyclopaedic quality of chemical terminology, and at the word terminology I should insinuate a comm... ...teers, will be collaborating upon this new step in man’s struggle with the elements. Bacon’s visionary House of Saloman* will be a thing realised, and... ...epreciation through the discovery of some way of transmuting less valuable elements. The liability to such depreciations introduces an undesirable spe... ...at are useful instead of being orna- mental, you wash—with such abstersive chemicals as soap for example—and above all you consult doctors.” He ap- pr... ...efine and put a point to it; her costume is clamorous with the distinctive elements of her form. The white woman in the materially prosperous nations ... ...eemed looking here and there for support and 161 H G Wells the structural elements of a party. Still, the idea of a compre- hensive movement of disil... ...age by age; I can venture to ignore the rare chance of an abnormal- ity in chemical composition and of any startling aberration in my physiological re...

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...rankly confess that I really pride myself as much on this little stroke of chemical ingenuity as upon the other element of novelty in my creations—my ... ...s to have contained my masterpiece! Isn’t it a promising foun- dation? The elements of it are all here. And he tapped his forehead with that mystic co...

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...er THEY have chiseled on my stone the words: “His life was gentle, and the elements so mixed in him That nature might stand up and say to all the worl... ...hetoric. My epitaph should have been: “Life was not gentle to him, And the elements so mixed in him That he made warfare on life In the which he was s... ...drogen, Their son, a devastating fire. I Trainor, the druggist, a miser of chemicals, Killed while making an experiment, Lived unwedded. Daisy Fraser ...

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...ne fetched the breath, as when men are in the presence of the tremen- dous elements of nature. It sounded the constitution more darkly-awful, and with... ...s champagne!” said Fellingham. “It must be like the contact of two hostile chemical ele- ments.” Annette walked faster. They descended from the shingl... ...e Meredith man, and yet I went and enlisted in the cavalry. If you talk of chemical substances, old Mart Tinman was a sneak who never cared a dump for... ...warned him of 71 George Meredith his accession of property exposed to the elements. Both he and his sister attributed their nervousness to the sinist... ...here are in the world!” meaning, between a man exposed to the wrath of the elements, and the same individual reading from vellum, in that suit, in a p...

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...sions as tyros engaged in the same pursuit. The untaught peasant beheld the elements around him and was acquainted with their practical uses. The mos... ... at the end of two years I made some discoveries in the improvement of some chemical instruments, which pro cured me great esteem and admiration at ... ...al philosophy. When I was otherwise quite restored to health, the sight of a chemical instrument would renew all the agony of my nervous symptoms. He... ...end before any being less almighty than that which had created and ruled the elements, here displayed in their most terrific guise. Still, as I ascend... ...with it to my hovel. Fortunately the books were written in the language, the elements of which I had acquired at the cottage; they consisted of Paradi... ...y, and it was with a bitter anguish that I reflected on it, to order that my chemical instruments should be packed to go with me. Filled with dreary ... ...r rive at the completion of this tour about the end of July. I packed up my chemical instruments and the materials I had collected, resolving to fini... ...re was a task to perform, on which I shuddered to reflect; I must pack up my chemical instruments, and for that purpose I must enter the room which ha...

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...back to efface the fatal letters, and altered his complexion by the use of chemicals. Thus meta- morphosing himself face to face with the corpse, he c... ...symptoms.” “The stomach is, in fact, full of food substances; but short of chemical analysis, I find no evidence of poison. “If the characters of cere... ...lty man there with his remorse for company, in silence and dark- ness, two elements of horror, and you will wonder how he ever failed to go mad. What ... ...s, is not far off when the process shall be discovered by which feeling is chemically converted into a fluid not unlike the electric fluid. The phenom... ...effect of gener- osity on this nature, a compound, like bronze, of various elements, of good and evil. Again, Monsieur de Granville, who had reached t...

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...hrecke, had it in his power to furnish the requisite Documents. As in some chemical mixture, that has stood long evapo- rating, but would not crystall... ... are her stuff: ex- amine Language; what, if you except some few primitive elements (of natural sound), what is it all but Metaphors, recognized as su... ...luid and florid, or now solid-grown and colorless? If those same primitive elements are the osseous fixtures in the Flesh-Garment, Language,—then are ... ...ing air, here one mass, there another, and cun- ningly cemented, while the elements boil beneath: nor is there any supernatural force to do it with; b... ...) Egg; wherein as yet all is formless, power- less; yet by degrees organic elements and fibres shoot through the watery albumen; and out of vague Sens... ...the annual Cattle-fair. Here, assembling from all the four winds, came the elements of an unspeakable hurry-burly. Nut-brown maids and nut-brown men, ... ...ur busy Europe, is there not an everlasting demand for Intel- lect, in the chemical, mechanical, political, religious, edu- cational, commercial depar...

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...the theories of Davy. We are now among the primitive rocks, upon which the chemical operations took place which are produced by the contact of element... ...he wa- ters, formed by degrees into vast accumulated masses. Then came the chemical action of nature; in the depths of the seas the vegetable accumula... ...ense curtain which has dropped over the theatre on which the battle of the elements is about to be waged. I feel peculiar sensations, like many creatu... ...oils, and the electric fires are brought into vio- lent action by a mighty chemical power that descends from the higher regions. The most vivid flashe... ...er is in continual evolu- tion from their component molecules; the gaseous elements of the air need to be slaked with moisture; for innumerable column... ...e rapidly recovered himself. “Aha! will fate play tricks upon me? Will the elements lay plots against me? Shall fire, air, and water make a combined a... ...vance. We were henceforth to be hurled along, the playthings of the fierce elements of the deep. At six we were afoot. The moment drew near to clear a... ...g of the globe is never at absolute rest; the changes brought about by the chemical decomposi- tion of its component parts, the agitation caused by gr...

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...ngs; but it will be found that these two ideas are, so to speak, the basal elements of all theology in the world. The writer is chary of assertion or ... ...ne ‘a series of lucky accidents’—the chance blowing by the wind of certain chemicals into pools on the primitive earth—accounting for the first appear... ...sness of our apparently homogeneous selves, the unincorporated and warring elements that seemed at first altogether absent from the synthesis of conve... ...n fashion to call his neighbour’s attention to what he sees. The necessary elements of religion could be written on a post card; this book, small as i...

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...opens had made experience of a spiritual affinity more attractive than any chemical one. He had left his laboratory to the care of an assistant, clear... .... And Aylmer, excluding the sunshine, which would have interfered with his chemical processes, had supplied its place with perfumed lamps, emitting fl... ...owever, he forgot these mortifying failures. In the intervals of study and chemical experiment he came to her flushed and exhausted, but seemed invigo... ...mer reap peared and proposed that she should now examine his cabi net of chemical products and natural treasures of the earth. Among the former he s... ...e room were retorts, tubes, cyl inders, crucibles, and other apparatus of chemical research. An electrical machine stood ready for immediate use. The... ...er the miserable simulacre 104 Mosses from an Old Manse into its original elements. “Thou hast a man’s aspect,” said she, sternly. “Have also the ech... ...n the daughter of the oak with fire. “If she be other than a bubble of the elements,” exclaimed Copley, “I must look upon her face again.” He accordin...

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...presently bring about a state of affairs that will supply just the lacking elements that are needed for the development of a world peace. 13 H G Well... ...ic levity their train- ing has imposed upon them…. There, again, there are elements of hope. The lawyer has heard much about himself in the past few y... ...os, and so forth. And also, in a parallel case, there is shipbuilding. The chemical side of munition work can turn itself with no extreme difficulty t... ...ward saying “COP .” The mind plunges hopelessly through that tangle to the elements of a speech which is as yet un- known. Nevertheless almost all the... ...y word of Russian in my text-book into the Latin characters, and learn the elements of the language from my manuscript. A year or so ago I made a brie... ...enth birthday. It is not so closely linked up with specific British social elements, with political parties and the general educational system, as are...

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...ughman of the troubled waters, life-long contending with the in- tractable elements, there was nothing this honest soul at heart loved better than sim... ...nably impute to a dog of Saint Bernard’s breed. Habitually living with the elements and knowing little 12 Billy Budd more of the land than as a beach... ...ng horse fresh from the pasture sud- denly inhaling a vile whiff from some chemical factory, and by repeated snortings tries to get it out of his nos-...

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...eak-minded persons. And these would soon appear to have been but the first elements of confusion under the improved views of spiritual rights. The doc... ...hemistry had its first origin in Arabia; and it is not impossible that the chemical nomenclature for gold and silver, viz. sol and luna, were derived ... ...duality—so indispensable, amongst a thousand other great uses, to the very elements of social distinctions and social rights, But for the endless circ... ...should sketch a rapid out- line [Greek Text: os en tupo pexilabeln] of its elements, (to speak by a metaphor borrowed from practical astronomy)— i. e.... ...dst some Salvator-Rosa-look- ing solitudes of Calabria—how often have such elements, 126 Theological Essays and Other Papers – V olume Two semi-consc... ...page of general history. We do not at all question great stamina and noble elements in the modern Greek character—generations of independence will car...

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...could sleep after the coffee and lay awake after the tea, which is proof conclusive of some chemical disparity; and even by the pal- ate I could disti... ...oard. Perhaps even in the saloon there was as much good-will and character. Yet it had some elements of curiosity. There was a mixed group of Swedes, ... ...ally he was a small Scotsman, standing a little back as though he were already carrying the elements of a corporation, and his looks somewhat marred b... ...ad this been an English peasant the conclusion would be tenable. But Mackay had most of the elements of a liberal education. He had skirted metaphysic... ...xtra hands, were once drawn up on shore till the next spring, he worked as a labourer about chemical furnaces, or along the wharves unloading vessels.... ... scenery to grand, a little hot sunshine over lowland parks and woodlands to the war of the elements round the summit of Mont Blanc; or if I prefer a ...

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...er existence a great law had been broken; and the result was a being whose elements were perhaps beautiful and brilliant, but all in dis order, or wi... ...ety; and in the nature of the child seemed to be perpetuated those unquiet elements that had distracted Hester Prynne before Pearl’s birth, but had si... ...le of moral and religious 80 The Scarlet Letter growth, and possessed the elements of ultimate salvation, then, surely, it would enjoy all the fairer... ...rovided with a distilling apparatus and the means of compounding drugs and chemicals, which the practised alchemist knew well how to turn to purpose. ... ...owned herself akin to it. It was as if she had been made afresh out of new elements, and must perforce be permitted to live her own life, and be a law... ...lity almost majestic in the despair which she expressed. “Thou hadst great elements. Peradventure, hadst thou met earlier with a better love than mine...