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Page 195 - Campbell. A Practical Text-Book of Inorganic Chemistry, including the Preparations of Substances, and their Qualitative and Quantitative Analyses, with Organic Analyses. By Dugald Campbell, Demonstrator of Practical Chemistry to the University College. 12mo. London, 1849 . .056 Chapman.
Page 8 - All things considered, it seems probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable particles, of such sizes, figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions to space, as most conduced to the end for which He formed them.
Page 195 - Paris. He begs to acquaint his friends, and the Patrons of German Scientific Works, that he is able to furnish German Works and Periodicals every Mouth, at the rate of Three Shillings and Sixpence the Rix-Dollar.
Page 8 - ... these primitive particles being solids are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces, no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.