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Page 39 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 4 - May one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, the Straight Line or Distance between the Centres of the Two Points in the Gold Studs in the Straight Brass Rod, now in the Custody of the Clerk of the House of Commons, whereon the Words and Figures
Page 7 - ... execute such powers of attorney, conveyances, deeds, and instruments, and, generally, do all such acts and things in relation to his property and the distribution of the proceeds amongst his creditors, as may be reasonably required by the trustee...
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Page 5 - What we know is nothing; what we do not know is immense; indeed every advance of knowledge but enlarges the sphere of our ignorance." How many problems of the highest interest are pressing upon us even in the line of biology. What is vitality ? Is it an unintelligent force of nature, like that of attraction, producing crystallization, or an intelligent principle operating by the ordinary, forces of nature, producing results indicating design and consequent intention ? Can dead matter be made alive...
Page 33 - Treaty shall take effect as soon as the laws required to carry it into operation shall have been passed by the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain and...
Page 7 - ... deliver up possession of any part of his property, which is divisible amongst his creditors under this Act, and which is for the time being in his possession or under his control, to the...
Page 13 - They faintly resisted ; the baby grew imperious and threatened to cry forthwith. That beat them, as the mother deprecatingly observed to her astounded listeners. •' Of course when the sweet child told us she was going to cry we were forced to yield ; it would have been monstrous to cause her pain simply for our pleasure ; so I begged Henri to cease his efforts to persuade her, and we both took off our clothes and went to bed. As soon as she was asleep we got up again, redressed, and here we are,...
Page 148 - My first efforts at prose composition were refused admittance into a magazine. My first novel was very little read, and it is not included in the general collection of my works. My first poetry was thought detestable, and my first play very nearly escaped being damned. Thus, perhaps, few writers have been less intoxicated with the rapture of first success ; and, even when I did succeed, perhaps few writers, upon the whole, have been more unsparingly assailed by hostile critics. If I had relied solely...
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