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Lindley and Playfair, that half the potato crop was destroyed, is not only given, but emphatically put forward. Apprehension is expressed at the difficulty of substituting a dearer for a cheaper food, the probability of fever closely succeeding famine, and the formidable danger of not having a sufficiency of sound seed for the ensuing crop.
Admiral Keppel's expedition in 1749 is chiefly memorable for the presence of Sir Joshua Reynolds as a guest on board the flagship; and it is possible that two sketches reproduced by Sir Lambert Playfair are from his pencil: the drawings were the only fruit of the cruise.
Delambre's History of Ancient Astronomy has long been a classic, but richer in materials for a history than a history itself. There is a valuable essay in the Encyclopedia Britannica, which refers to a list of authors, among which are Biccoli, Weilder, Bailly, Playfair, La Lande.
But, as was candidly observed by Professor Playfair in concluding his report "It is not from theoretical men that the most valuable information in such a case as the present is to be expected. When a mechanical arrangement becomes in a certain degree complicated, it baffles the efforts of the geometer, and refuses to submit to even the most approved methods of investigation.
Thurston tells of a case in which Nature had apparently effected the separation of the placenta without alarming hemorrhage, the ease being one of placenta praevia, terminating favorably by natural processes. Playfair speaks of the detachment of the uterine decidua without the interruption of pregnancy.
MR. ATKINSON, "Laws of Man's Nature," p. 17. DR. SPURZHEIM, "Philosophical Principles of Phrenology," pp. PROFESSOR DOD, "Princeton Theological Essays," II. 376. DR. GREGORY, "Letters on Animal Magnetism," p. 57. BISHOP BUTLER, "Analogy," p. I. c. 1, p. 170. DR. JOHN PLAYFAIR, "Works," I., Preface, XXIX. C. M. BURNETT, M. D., "Philosophy," &c. London, 1850. BISHOP BERKELEY, "Words," I. 80.
A Scotchman, Mr Drummond was told, not very long from the old country, who had bought the Playfair business on Main Street, and settled in the "Plummer Place," which already had a quarter of a century's standing in the annals of the town.
We should say, if Hutton and Playfair declare the course of the world to have been always the same, point out the fallacy by all means; but, in so doing, do not imagine that you are proving modern geology to be in opposition to natural philosophy.
Professors Lindley and Playfair made a report to Sir Robert Peel, bearing date the 15th of November, from which he quoted the following startling passage in his speech on the address, on the 22nd of January, 1846: "We can come to no other conclusion," they write, "than that one-half of the actual potato crop of Ireland is either destroyed, or remains in a state unfit for the food of man.
The same may be said of chocolate." Playfair and Lankester: Tea contains 3 per cent. theine. Coffee " 1¾ " caffeine. Cocoa " 2 " theobromine. Probably the proportion of caffeine in coffee would be more correctly stated as 1¼ per cent. Dr. Johnson's analysis: Dried milk 35 \ Cocoa essence 34¾ \ Flesh formers in Cocoa-nibs 23 / each hundred parts. Best French chocolates 11 / Mr.
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