Such tenuity is in accord with what a priori principles would lead us to expect, and tends to show that reliance on general principles is here not misplaced, a point of some interest.
Their extreme tenuity is a third trait pointing to artificiality; inasmuch as the narrower they are, the more probable is their construction by local intelligence.
That tenuity in the comet which had previously inspired us with hope, was now the source of the bitterness of despair.
The exceeding tenuity of the object of our dread was apparent; for all heavenly bodies were plainly visible through it.
The tenuity of the atmosphere on Mars has another consequence.
All, therefore, concurs to prove the extreme tenuity of the substance of irregular nebulae.
This extreme tenuityof comets is moreover shown by their small weight.
The space now occupied by the solar system is supposed to have been filled by a rotating spheroid of extreme tenuity and enormous heat, due perhaps to the collision of two originally separate bodies.
From these data we can form a very correct calculation of what the density--tenuity rather--of the nebula must have been.
It is delicacy mixed with abundance; tenuity supported by generosity.
The examples in virtue of which I saw the errors of my masters, unanimously proclaimed the tenuity of the voice to be in proportion to its acuteness.
On the permeability of transparent screens of extreme tenuity of radiant heat.
These differences Homer knew, since he represents women and boys with treble voices, by reason of the tenuity of their breath; men, he makes with bass voices.
Some one may think that all this tenuity is as vaporous as the stuff that dreams are made of, and call for solid rocks for foundations.
The greater the tenuity the greater the creative results.
When we reduce it to a tenuity of one millionth of the normal density we get the possibility of the X rays by vibrations of itself without any platinum wire.
Now, when earth and oceans are "changed" to this sort of tenuitycreations will be more easy.
They were new forms of matter, but of an extreme tenuity of substance; and with intellects much like our own, though scarcely of so high or powerful an order.
Keats was not a poet of definite and deliberate plans, which indeed are incident to a certain tenuity of soul; his decisions were taken not by the intellect, but by the being.
He can hold the attention longer than any poet of an equal tenuity of matter.
But it hath been shewn, that these same distilled Essential Oils, though ever so fluid and light at first, gradually lose their tenuity as they grow old, and at last become considerably thick.
Rectification is of use not only for procuring to Essential Oils the tenuity and levity they may have lost by age, but also to separate them from other oily matters with which they may be adulterated.
Tenuity of chromospheric gases inferred by Lockyer and Frankland.
Tenuity of calcium vapour in chromosphere demonstrated spectroscopically by Sir William and Lady Huggins.
The isolation of H and K in solar prominences from any other of the lines usually distinctive of calcium was experimentally proved by Sir William and Lady Huggins in 1897 to be due to the extreme tenuity of the emitting vapour.
The tenuity of this veil is such that it admits of our seeing the stars through the auroral plates.
From their {125} wonderful subtleness and tenuity they find their way into both parts of our composition.
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