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... derived from his own appreciation of their literature , critical examination being seldom attempted . About thirty years ago the want of practical knowledge in natural pheno- mena in the vehicles of youthful education began to be deeply ...
... derived from his own appreciation of their literature , critical examination being seldom attempted . About thirty years ago the want of practical knowledge in natural pheno- mena in the vehicles of youthful education began to be deeply ...
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... derived from my own observation and the laborious researches of others , it appears to me that everything in this involved investiga- tion depends upon the questions , whether the great quantity of aqueous vapours , which are ...
... derived from my own observation and the laborious researches of others , it appears to me that everything in this involved investiga- tion depends upon the questions , whether the great quantity of aqueous vapours , which are ...
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Daniel Scrymgeour. volcanoes , even when in a state of rest , be derived from sea- water impregnated with salt , or rather , perhaps , with fresh meteoric water ; or whether the expansive force of the vapours ( which at a depth of nearly ...
Daniel Scrymgeour. volcanoes , even when in a state of rest , be derived from sea- water impregnated with salt , or rather , perhaps , with fresh meteoric water ; or whether the expansive force of the vapours ( which at a depth of nearly ...
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... derived from the neighbouring coal - field ; and yonder grey , mud - coloured stratum , mixed up with fragments of limestone , is a deposit from the rather more distant silurians . But not such the character of the widely - spread upper ...
... derived from the neighbouring coal - field ; and yonder grey , mud - coloured stratum , mixed up with fragments of limestone , is a deposit from the rather more distant silurians . But not such the character of the widely - spread upper ...
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... derived from body , and the old oneness of the individual be thus rendered complete . " Bound each to each by natural piety . " MILLER . MAN . Dependent , although in a lesser degree than plants and animals , on the soil , and on the ...
... derived from body , and the old oneness of the individual be thus rendered complete . " Bound each to each by natural piety . " MILLER . MAN . Dependent , although in a lesser degree than plants and animals , on the soil , and on the ...
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Page 309 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Page 352 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 356 - Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods...
Page 340 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 37 - Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page 155 - And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars ; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth : for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads ; for your redemption draweth...
Page 358 - Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day.
Page 340 - tis nobler in the mind, to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune ; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? — To die, — to sleep, — No more ; and, by a sleep, to say we end The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, — 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die ; — to sleep : — To sleep ! perchance to dream : — ay, there's the rub ; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this...
Page 333 - Heathfield, recently ennobled for his memorable defence of Gibraltar against the fleets and armies of France and Spain. The long procession was closed by the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of the realm, by the great dignitaries, and by the brothers and sons of the King. Last of all came the Prince of Wales, conspicuous by his fine person and noble bearing.
Page 332 - Strafford had for a moment awed and melted a victorious party inflamed with just resentment; the hall where Charles had confronted the High Court of Justice with the placid courage which has half redeemed his fame.