Two magnets, heaven and earth, allure to bliss, The larger loadstone that, the nearer this.
A tendency of inanimate things to unite, or to act on each other; as, the sympathy between the loadstone and iron.
No doubt the loadstone in its natural state was used by mariners to steer their ships by, long before its artificial counterpart was invented.
In the year 1617 Strada, an Italian Jesuit, proposed to telegraph news without wires by means of two sympathetic needles made of loadstone so balanced that when one was turned the other would turn with it.
It is said that the word magnetism is derived from the name of a Greek shepherd, called Magnes, who once observed on Mount Ida the attractive properties of loadstone when applied to his iron shepherd's crook.
Loadstone of my deep compassion Was that voice which still exerted All its failing powers to speak Amid groans and tears this sentence,-- "Dying innocent and a Christian I a martyr's death may merit.
Then they take a loadstone as big as the palm of the hand, or even smaller.
The earliest name of the loadstone was Hercules' Stone, which was soon changed to magnes, from the fact that it was found in abundance in a region called Magnesia, in Lydia.
The needle was so irregular in its motion that it required frequent passes of the loadstone to revive its energy.
And there, while his boat was swept along on the northern current, he was seized by the magnetic fluid before he could get rid of the gun which was slung over his shoulder, and hurled against the fatal loadstone Sphinx of the Ice-realm.
Even had they not adhered to the loadstone rock at too great a height to be reached, they adhered to it too closely to be detached.
Had the moving power been a magnet, the whole action of the machine would have been deranged by the approximation of a loadstone concealed in the pockets of any of the spectators.
Hence the opinion became very prevalent that the agent was a magnet; but even this supposition was excluded, for the exhibitor allowed a strong and well-armed loadstone to be placed upon the machine during the progress of the game.
Amongst other good qualities an amorous fellow is endowed with, he must learn to sing and dance, play upon some instrument or other, as without all doubt he will, if he be truly touched with this loadstone of love.
On theloadstone that was placed on the right side the following iambic verse was curiously engraven in ancient Roman characters: Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt.
The loadstone or natural magnet was first found at Magnesia, in Lydia, Asia, whence were derived the names.
Gilbert, of Colchester, had in 1660 scientifically ascertained and published the fact, that when reduced to powder the loadstone ceases totally to possess its magnetic properties.
He found the compass to be affected in a similar manner to that remarked onLoadstone Hill; the north point of it when placed on the rock, becoming the south.
In the course of the day, I again ascendedLoadstone Hill, and repeated the experiments made on Friday, with the same results.
The rocks were of a very hard whinstone, the stratum nearly perpendicular, or rather standing up in regular basaltic figures, similar to those on Loadstone Hill.
They made small boats, but were ignorant of the loadstone and the compass.
Objects or thoughts, that have been associated with pleasure, retain the power of pleasing; as the needle touched by the loadstone acquires polarity, and retains it long after the loadstone is withdrawn.
As the loadstone is rife with the magnetic virtue, as amber contains the electric, so in this substance, to which we yet want a name, is found the bright life-giving fluid.
And neither amber nor the loadstone draws anything to it which is near, nor does anything spontaneously approach them.
In amber there is a flammeous and spirituous nature, and this by rubbing on the surface is emitted by recluse passages, and does the same that the loadstone does.
Baume had sent him in 1768, grains in form of buttons, others flatter, and some black and scaly; and having separated by the loadstone those which are attractable from those which appeared not so, I tried to form Prussian blue with both.
I am persuaded, we should be able, with a strong loadstone to bring away all the platina even to the last grain.
Having collected this black powder and the most magnetic grains that the loadstone at first attracted, I discovered that the whole was iron, but in a different state from common iron.
I endeavoured to assay the platina, and for that intent put a drachm of the grains taken up by the loadstone into a cupel, with two drachms of lead.
If, on the contrary, the effect were particular, like that of the attraction of the loadstone and steel, we might expect to discover the cause, because it might be compared to other particular effects.
As I gazed up at the great dome I saw it flushed with the flames and colors of a world of enticement, unknown to me, my imagination played me a thousand wanton tricks, and the forbidden drew me as surely as a loadstone draws on iron.
It was itself the loadstone that constantly attracted the wandering dwellers of the desert.
With its comparatively fertile fields, it has proved a loadstone that for thousands of years has attracted the wandering Arabian tribes.
The attractive power of the natural magnet or loadstone over fragments of iron seems to have been known from the remotest antiquity.
Lumps of loadstone formed into balls were preserved in their temples, and looked upon with awe, as possessing mystic properties.
We slept not that night and in the morning we found ourselves much nearer the Loadstone Mountain, whither the waters crave us with a violent send.
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