A still simpler experiment, which may be performed by anyone with the greatest ease, may serve as a further illustration of the profound nature of the change in the properties of bodies brought about by chemical combination, and it will also serve as the occasion of directing attention to a remarkable circumstance that invariably characterizes such changes, and one that should always be present in our minds when we are considering them.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge
Other details were added of such a revolting character that I could scarcely credit them.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 14, October 1871-March 1872 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various
The common form of this machine consists of a number of such iron cores so arranged upon a revolving cylinder that in continual succession they fly past a number of stationary horse-shoe magnets placed in a frame round its circumference.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 721 October 20, 1877 by Various
The Irish themselves are, unfortunately, so engrossed with political and religious controversies, that it can scarcely be hoped that single-handed they will be roused to the rescue even of these evidences of their former national greatness.
— from Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by Thomas Osborne Davis
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