"The planets revolved in circles because it was in their nature to do so, just as laudanum sends to sleep because it p…"

"Thus, not merely what it can do, but the rate at which it can do it, has to be considered in estimating the value of …"

"Comets encountering these precincts must be perplexed to decide between the two potentates claiming their allegiance,…"

"Much obscurity attaches to her history, and it is not easy to disentangle the actual facts of her history from the ne…"

"The fatalities which destroyed the men of another period originated in crafty diplomacy, soothing promises, and flatt…"

"The rose colours of madder have justly been considered as supplying a desideratum, and as the most valuable acquisiti…"

"Green...contrasts more agreeably with all colours than any other individual colour. It has accordingly been adopted w…"

"The general powers of green, as a colour, associate it with the ideas of vigour and freshness; and it is hence symbol…"

"As purple, when inclining toward redness, is a regal and pompous colour, it has been used in mythological representat…"

"Brown...is the rather indefinite appellation of a very extensive class of colours of warm or tawny hues....The term b…"