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Secret of the Sands

By: Aren, Rai and E., Tavius

...lly worked up the courage to speak. “The metal alloy in them is not a known material. The elements are not part of the periodic table,” he said just ... ...Assan looked at them, “It is possible there is some correlation, that the combi- nation of elements in your system somehow affected her in particular,... ...ere brown burnt marks and a white residue on the ends of it. It looked as if some sort of chemical had burned through the cords and the ropes holding... ...mined the rope closely, “This is very strange. These burn marks could have been caused by chemicals, but not by any I have ever handled before, this ... ...sed by chemicals, but not by any I have ever handled before, this was thick, strong rope. Chemicals that could do this are certainly not readily avai... ...n the Queen and Princess were going sailing today. How long would it have taken for these chemicals to burn through?” “It is hard to say without kn... ...lyzed the metal of the cylinders yourself. Remember, you’re the one who told us that ‘the elements were not part of the periodic table.’ We know the... ...ch a person, but was there anything you know of that caused this?” “There was an unusual chemical in Queen Axiana’s system when she was trying to c... ...ful enough to see through her?” “Perhaps, but it is quite likely that the combination of elements was the catalyst, though Princess Anjia would hav...

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The French Revolution a History Volume Two

By: Thomas Carlyle

...et into coherence! Poor Louis is not without insight, nor even without the elements of will; some sharpness of temper, spurting at times from a stagna... ...ce is as a monstrous Galvanic Mass, wherein all sorts of far stranger than chemical galvanic or electric forces and substances are at work; electrifyi... ...o main- tain itself, while it can. Here, as in that Commixture of the Four Elements did the Anarch Old, has an august Assembly spread its pavilion; cu... ...ected arena, on this last day of February 1791, the Three long- contending elements of French Society, dashed forth into singular comico-tragical coll... ... and of one’s own Deservings,’ of Schicksal und eigene Schuld; full of the elements of Pity and Fear? This brother man, if not Epic for us, is Tragic;...

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The Soul Bearer

By: Jonathan Cross

...ing in un­ derground cavities, and has probably undergone a thousand dif­ ferent chemical reactions. I believe we're dealing with a highly radioactiv... ... tion's plutonium. A concentration of plutonium combined with other toxic waste elements could just be the cause," Greene speculated. "If that's tr... ... been cooking themselves into a nuclear hybrid." "A hybrid?" "You know, a new chemical compound. That stuff's been cooking down there a long time.... ...king down there a long time. Probably creating hundreds - or even thousands - of chemical reactions, and forming new compounds, even deadlier togethe... ...ly synergy." "That still doesn't explain why it can't be detected." "These new chemical compounds probably don't conform to normal testing standard... ...lusions, Doctor?" "We believe that over the years a combination of radioactive elements has been seeping into the ground and has probably mixed tog... ...s been seeping into the ground and has probably mixed together causing numerous chemical reactions to occur. We, also, believe that these chemical r... ...m personally disturbed and outraged that the authorities and the media revealed elements of the crime scene, and impli­ cated innocent parties before...

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On Heroes, Hero-Worship, And the Heroic in History

By: Thomas Carlyle

... power of Fire, or Flame, for instance, which we designate by some trivial chemical name, thereby hiding from ourselves the essential character of won... ... used in Scot- land to signify hoar-frost. Rime was not then as now a dead chemical thing, but a living Jotun or Devil; the monstrous Jotun Rime drove... ... em- blems, how the Christian Dante felt Good and Evil to be the two polar elements of this Creation, on which it all turns; that these two differ not...

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Cousin Betty

By: Honoré de Balzac

...lanted shrubs, while the grass seems as if it must be made to grow by some chemical process. He ad- mired not only the decoration, the gilding, the ca... ...ience of the life the young pair are but just entering on; and the lighter elements, present as carbonic-acid gas is in champagne; and the envious gir...

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Essays

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

...For the eye is fastened on the life, and slights the cir- cumstance. Every chemical substance, every plant, every animal in its growth, teaches the un... ... wit, on the other hand, is that continence or content which finds all the elements of life in its own soil; and which has its own perils of monotony ... ... The shoes of swiftness, the sword of sharpness, the power of subduing the elements, of using the secret virtues of minerals, of understanding the voi... .... What connection do the 25 Emerson books show between the fifty or sixty chemical elements and the historical eras? Nay, what does history yet recor... ...nnection do the 25 Emerson books show between the fifty or sixty chemical elements and the historical eras? Nay, what does history yet record of the ... ...ower of that science-baffling star, without parallax, with- out calculable elements, which shoots a ray of beauty even into trivial and impure actions... ...in the centrifugal and centripetal gravity; in electricity, galvanism, and chemical affinity. Superinduce magnetism at one end of a needle, the opposi... ...ff, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another. Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like dia- dem... ...alists in the sky: here lies stubborn matter, and will not swerve from its chemical routine. Here is a planted globe, pierced and 118 Essays belted w...

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The Wife and Other Stories

By: Anton Tchekhov

... failed, and so what’s the use of all your judgment and energy?… It’ s the elements.… You can’t go against God and fate.” “Y es, but that’ s what man ... ...fate.” “Y es, but that’ s what man has a head for, to conten d against the elements.” “Eh? Yes… that’s so, to be sure.… Yes.” Ivan Ivanitch sneezed in... ... of his future. In the course of his life he will prepare many hundreds of chemicals of ex- ceptional purity; he will write a number of dry and very a... ...ch into the room in the following order: fore- most goes Nikolay, with the chemicals and apparatus or with a chart; after him I come; and then the car...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...ena of which it is cognizant and that always appear dependent on these two elements. Whatever presentation of the activity of many men or of an indivi... ...differs from any other force. The forces of gravitation, elec- tricity, or chemical affinity are only distinguished from one an- other in that they ar... ...dies, the undefinable essence of the forces of heat and electricity, or of chemical affinity, or of the vital force, forms the content of astronomy, p... ... seeks law, that is, the property common to all unknown, infinitely small, elements. In another form but along the same path of reflection the other s... ...d seek the laws common to all the inseparably interconnected infinitesimal elements of free will. CHAPTER XII FROM THE TIME THE LAW of Copernicus was ...

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Autobiography Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life

By: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

...it had been some composite, divisible and reunitable substance, some finer chemical salt, or curious piece of logical joinery,—began to lose its immat... ... for the citizens of Frankfort, a botanic garden, an anatomical theatre, a chemical laboratory, a considerable library, and a house for the director, ... ...ndeed it were not a shepherdess or huntress to whom they descended. And as elements of this kind, from “Ovid’s Metamorphoses,” or the “Pantheon Mythic... ...ld, having represented, in paintings to be placed over the doors, the four elements as children and boys, after life, and having expended the greatest... ... passed only a few moments in them. The case often happens, that, when the elements of an exclusive art are taught us, this is done in a painful and r... ...hich he immediately put in, and by degrees composed the whole out of these elements with the utmost care and fidelity. On one occasion I had caught a ... ... in the subordinate characters, a happy union of bizarre and contradictory elements is artistically represented. If I have put my reader in some perpl... ... of many natural things: and, inasmuch as I well knew that in modern times chemical subjects were treated more methodically, I wished to get a general... ...apoth- ecaries and all those who operated with common fire. How- ever, the chemical “Compendium” of Boerhaave attracted me powerfully, and led me on t...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Two

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...here they caught him, was a closet, ten feet by eight, fitted up with some chemical apparatus, of which the object has not yet been ascertained. In on... ..., Dr. Percival, Spallanzani, and especially the Bishop of Landaff. — See “Chemical Essays,” vol v. 99 V olume Two Heaven and Hell of Swedenborg ; t... ...litude; — but the night waned and he sat upon the rock. “Then I cursed the elements with the curse of tumult; and a frightful tempest gathered in the ... ...wrong for the wrong’s sake, admit of analysis, or resolution into ulterior elements. It is a radical, a primitive im- pulse-elementary. It will be sai... ... mankind —that as a species we have in our possession the as yet unwrought elements of content—and that, even now, in the present darkness and madness... ...play of imagination in the endless combining of forms of novel beauty; the elements to enter into combination being, by a vast superiority, the most g... ...s my own, surpassing the far-famed view from that mountain in all the true elements of the picturesque. “I am aware,” said the traveller, as he drew a...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume One

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...own quantity all along. In any picture that he paints he un- derstands the chemical properties of all his colors. However vague some of his figures ma... ...ves in his works, whatever their design, traces of his personal character: elements of his immortal being, in which the individual survives the person... ...s in the case of difficulty in breathing, where the atmospheric density is chemically insufficient for the due renovation of blood in a ventricle of t... ...fied at- mosphere around might perhaps not be, as I had taken for granted, chemically insufficient for the purposes of life, and that a person born in... ... this satellite when an embryo in the womb of time, the passive subject of chemical affinity!” This is very fine; but it should be observed that no as... ...archment, the skull which I saw designed upon it. Y ou are well aware that chemical preparations exist, and have existed time out of mind, by means of...

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Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Bill Clinton

...r with safety the vessel in which we are all embarked amidst the conflicting elements of a troubled world. During the contest of opinion through which... ...nd to meet the first invasions of a foreign foe, and, while constituting the elements of a greater force, to preserve the science as well as all the n... ...ities of political contention and blended into harmony the most discor dant elements of public opinion There still remains one effort of magnanimity,... ...een seen in the institutions of the separate members of any confederacy more elements of discord. In the principles and forms of government and religi... ...sed in the administration both of your home and foreign affairs. Whether the elements of inherent force in the Re public have kept pace with its unpa... ...or and destruction. Our children will sleep free from the threat of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. Ports and airports, farms and factories w...

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The French Revolution a History Volume One

By: Thomas Carlyle

...kmen in all crafts, with their cunning head and right-hand, tamed the Four Elements to be their ministers; yoking the winds to their Sea-chariot, maki... ...h bayonets. Singular, but undeniable,—miraculous or not!—But thus may any chemical liquid; though cooled to the freezing-point, or far lower, still c... ...hes wholly into ice. Thus has France, for long months and even years, been chemically dealt with; brought below zero; and now, shaken by the Fall of a... ...fter phasis of fever-frenzy;—’till the frenzy burning itself out, and what elements of new Order it held (since all Force holds such) developing them-... ...lution is not of the consolidating kind. Do not fires, fevers, sown seeds, chemical mixtures, men, events; all embodiments of Force that work in this ... ... and continual meal-mobs? Undebauched Soldiers, be there plot, or only dim elements of a plot, are always good. Did not the Versailles Municipality (a...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...kmen in all crafts, with their cunning head and right-hand, tamed the Four Elements to be their ministers; yoking the winds to their Sea-chariot, maki... ...bayonets. Singular, but undeni- able,—miraculous or not!—But thus may any chemical liquid; though cooled to the freezing-point, or far lower, still c... ...hes wholly into ice. Thus has France, for long months and even years, been chemically dealt with; brought below zero; and now, shaken by the Fall of a... ...fter phasis of fever-frenzy;—’till the frenzy burning itself out, and what elements of new Order it held (since all Force holds such) de- 135 Thomas ... ...lution is not of the consolidating kind. Do not fires, fevers, sown seeds, chemical mixtures, men, events; all embodiments of Force that work in this ... ...nd con- tinual meal-mobs? Undebauched Soldiers, be there plot, or only dim elements of a plot, are always good. Did not the Versailles Municipality (a... ...ce is as a monstrous Galvanic Mass, wherein all sorts of far stranger than chemical galvanic or electric forces and substances are at work; electrifyi... ... to maintain itself, while it can. Here, as in that Commixture of the Four Elements did the Anarch Old, has an august Assembly spread its pavil- ion; ... ...pected arena, on this last day of February 1791, the Three long-contending elements of French Society, dashed forth into singular comico- tragical col...

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Resurrection

By: Mrs. Louis Maude

...bles. The postmortem ex amination of the body of the said Smelkoff and the chemical analysis of his intestines proved beyond doubt the presence of poi... ...ic features of that very painful phenomenon, the corruption to which those elements of our present-day society, which are, so 76 Resurrection to say,... ...s, such as Maslova. Guard it from infection; guard the innocent and strong elements of society from contagion or even destruction.” And as if himself ...

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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

...controlled | | Class (with waster regimented | | elements) in and disciplined | | an unprogressiv... ... education and training, upon laboratories and experimental stations, upon chemical and physical research and all that makes knowledge and leading, an... ...heir novels significant and real, and it is to these perpetually re- newed elements in the public that the novelist must look for his continuing emanc... ...sing out of each other in a synthetic order, each lower one containing the elements of a lucid explanation of those above it—phys- 142 An Englishman ... ...volution,” you have a greater insistence upon the dramatic and picturesque elements in history, but in other respects an altogether kindred endeav- ou... ... the New York millionaire, packing cloth into bleaching vats, in a bath of chemicals that bleaches their little bodies like the bodies of lepers…. Alt... ...tock of ideas and ideals is concerned. There are, for example, those great elements, the Spanish Catholics, the French Catholic population of Louisian... ...infirmities. Still more are fatigue and the need for repose dependent upon chemical changes in the body. It would seem we are unable to maintain exert...

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The Analysis of Mind

By: Bertrand Russell

... being “conscious.” These ways, taken together, are called the “cognitive” elements in mind, and it is these that will occupy us most during the follo... ...xample his Austrian successor Meinong.* Accord- ing to him there are three elements involved in the thought of an object. These three he calls the act... ...ng of St. Paul’s. Then, according to Meinong, we have to distinguish three elements which are necessarily combined in constituting the one thought. Fi... ...ist without the thought, but not the thought without the object: the three elements of act, content and object are all required to constitute the one ... ...eliefs that what consti- tutes the thought is connected with various other elements which together make up the object. You have, say, an image of St. ... ...rd ourselves as objectively as we should the motions of the planets or the chemical reac- tions of a new element. The study of animals reinforces this... ...ually cease to attribute desires to them, since we might find physical and chemical reactions sufficient to account for their behaviour. (b) Many of t...

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Democracy and Education

By: John Dewey

... the means of this social continuity of life. Every one of the constituent elements of a social group, in a modern city as in a savage tribe, is born ... ...place, it is the office of the school environ- ment to balance the various elements in the social envi- ronment, and to see to it that each individual... ...e of this physical annihilation of space. 2. The Democratic Ideal. The two elements in our crite- rion both point to democracy. The first signifies no... ...to classes need he specially attentive only to the education of its ruling elements. A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for the dist... ... but to provide an environment which shall organize them. Returning to the elements of truth contained in Rousseau’s statements, we find that natural ... ...ciples of mechanics. To cook is to utilize heat and moisture to change the chemical relations of food mate- rials; it has a bearing upon the assimilat... ...text, but translated into terms of sci- entific inquiry. Atoms, molecules, chemical formulae, the mathematical propositions in the study of physics—al...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...dino and the pillage of Moscow it had borne within itself, as it were, the chemical elements of dissolution. The members of what had once been an army... ...the pillage of Moscow it had borne within itself, as it were, the chemical elements of dissolution. The members of what had once been an army—Napoleon...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...: with questions of the threefold designation of God, the three primordial elements—sulphur, mercury, and salt—or the meaning of the square and all th... ...r all is one, all is known in its entirety and life. The Trinity—the three elements of matter—are sulphur, mercury, and salt. Sul- phur is of an oily ... ...nd become comprehensible to man only when he examines arbitrarily selected elements of that motion; but at the same time, a large proportion of human ... ...omes from the arbitrary division of continuous motion into dis- continuous elements. There is a well known, so-called sophism of the ancients consisti... ...sulted from this: that motion was arbitrarily divided into discon- tinuous elements, whereas the motion both of Achilles and of the tortoise was conti... ...dino and the pillage of Moscow it had borne within itself, as it were, the chemical elements of dissolu- tion. The members of what had once been an ar... ...y differs from any other force. The forces of gravitation, electricity, or chemical affinity are only distin- guished from one another in that they ar... ...dies, the undefinable essence of the forces of heat and electricity, or of chemical affinity, or of the vital force, forms the content of astronomy, p...

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