The stones were then to be sold for what they would fetch, and the proceeds were to be applied to the founding of that professorship of
experimental chemistry, which the Colonel has since endowed by his Will.
Everybody knows the story of another
experimental philosopher who had a great theory about a horse being able to live without eating, and who demonstrated it so well, that he had got his own horse down to a straw a day, and would unquestionably have rendered him a very spirited and rampacious animal on nothing at all, if he had not died, four-and-twenty hours before he was to have had his first comfortable bait of air.
"It's just a little
experimental invention of a friend of mine," he explained.
The Baron's object was announced, in the scientific columns of the newspapers, to be investigation into the present state of
experimental chemistry in the great American republic.
Bold in his conceptions, he contributed powerfully to the progress of that arm and gave an immense impetus to
experimental researches.
Her first
experimental attempt at martyrdom had not been a distinguished success.
They still dream of
experimental realisation of their social Utopias, of founding isolated "phalansteres," of establishing "Home Colonies," of setting up a "Little Icaria" -- duodecimo editions of the New Jerusalem -- and to realise all these castles in the air, they are compelled to appeal to the feelings and purses of the bourgeois.
`But I have
experimental verification,' said the Time Traveller.
She closed the door after her, took the duke by the hand, and after a few
experimental steps, grasped a balustrade, put her foot upon the bottom step, and began to ascend the staircase.
It was the first of five
experimental treatments Congo approved for use in a new outbreak that was declared on Aug.