The substance of this knowledge was, that, in the "ancient man's" youthand goodness knows how long back that wasthere had stood a great house in the center of the gardens, where now was left only that fragment of ruin.

Neither protein, nor fat, nor starch, nor sugar, nor any substance in the slightest degree resembling them, has formed part of the food of the bean.

The discovery of oxygen led to the laying of the foundations of a scientific theory of respiration, and to an examination of the marvellous interactions of organic substances with oxygen.

The following account of the life of VENTURE, is a relation of simple facts, in which nothing is in substance to what he relates himself.

Yet this amorphous particle, devoid of everything which, in the higher animals, we call organs, is capable of feeding, growing, and multiplying; of separating from the ocean the small proportion of carbonate of lime which is dissolved in sea-water; and of building up that substance into a skeleton for itself, according to a pattern which can be imitated by no other known agency.

There are words in it of quite a different note words which complain to God that the good are not rewarded, and the wicked are not punished: as for instance, when the Psalmist says how the ungodly men of this evil world are filled with God's hid treasure, and how they have children at their desire, and leave the rest of their substance for their babes.

Shakspeare again: I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain phantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconsistant than the wind.

A camel's-hair brush, a bent spoon on a long handle, a sponge tied to a stick, and one or two other instruments which use will suggest, are all that are needed for keeping the sides of the tank free from growth or removing obnoxious substances from its bottom.

" "And all those persons are hazarding their means of subsistence on the imaginary estimate mentioned by the auctioneer?" "They are gambling as recklessly as he who places his substance on the cast of the die.

The ground here in many places was covered with a substance like the rime of a frosty morning; it tastes like salt, and from it they get nitre.

"Their object, I believe, is to ascertain whether the penetrability of organic substances by the X-rays becomes altered by age; whether, for instance, an ancient block of wood is more or less transparent to the rays than a new block of the same size.

Your little invention for carrying a thread should be recommended to students and other isolated beings, notwithstanding their unaccountable propensity to pierce other substances than the cloth.

I haue knowen many rich men that haue dwelled in Pegu, and in their age they haue desired to go into their owne Countrey to die there, and haue departed with al their goods and substance without let or troubles.

The labors of earlier physiologists and chemists, as Carpenter, Liebig, and Paget, had resulted in the classification of nutritive substances under different heads, according to the purposes they served in the physical economy.

Saline matters are perceived most distinctly at the tip, and acid substances at the sides.

As the mathematicians would say, the wish is a function of the pressure, and so of the concentration of substance behind the pressure.

If the wars continue much longer in Europe," another look over the glasses, "we shall sell all the substance out of our lands, in order to send the belligerents wheat.

Some of them had been men of substance among the English gentry, and in their prosperous days had held high festival in ancestral halls in the season of good cheer.

His house is as ancient as Tubal Cain's, and so is a renegade by antiquity: yet he proves himself a gallant, for he carries all his wealth upon his back; or a philosopher, for he bears all his substance about him.

It may, therefore, be said that the bones of fishes form a kind of intermediate substance between true bones and cartilages.

Neither can it be otherwise; for the Cuticle, from its transparency, must necessarily transmit the colour of the substance beneath it, in the same manner, though not in the same degree, as the cornea transmits the colour of the iris of the eye.

The circumstance that so much of my ward's fortune lies in the states of the church, renders it necessary to await the proper moment for disposing of her rights, and of transferring their substance within the limits of the Republic, before we proceed to any act of decision.

They should be taken immediately after the repast, or some hours after, because the taking these substances during the process of digestion is apt to provoke indisposition.

The appearance of an Illinois settler in those days was rather picturesque than elegant,substance before show being the principle upon which it was planned.

Image far more kind Then is the substance whence thou art deriv'd, Which way soever I divert my selfe Thou seemst to follow with a loving eye.