The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 253Bradbury, Evans, 1882 - English periodicals |
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... observation that those who tear up vines and cut down fruit trees are to be looked upon as savage . The Fijian islanders were barbarians enough , but even they used as a rule to spare their enemies ' fruit trees ; so did the ancient ...
... observation that those who tear up vines and cut down fruit trees are to be looked upon as savage . The Fijian islanders were barbarians enough , but even they used as a rule to spare their enemies ' fruit trees ; so did the ancient ...
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... observation . The inquiries of even the childish stage of man's culture concerning the living as well as the non - living universe , include , above all other points , the inquiry , " where is it found ? " Especially natural does such a ...
... observation . The inquiries of even the childish stage of man's culture concerning the living as well as the non - living universe , include , above all other points , the inquiry , " where is it found ? " Especially natural does such a ...
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... observation of to - day . Accepting , however , the theories of " uniformity " in the inorganic world and of " evolution " in the living universe , we unite the sciences in a circle , outside the magnificent unity of which no fact of ...
... observation of to - day . Accepting , however , the theories of " uniformity " in the inorganic world and of " evolution " in the living universe , we unite the sciences in a circle , outside the magnificent unity of which no fact of ...
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... observed , is a departure from the mythology of the heroic cycle , in which the eagle is considered as subordinate to the falcon . In their metamorphoses the gods are VOL . CCLIII . NO . 1819 . F always represented as assuming the shape ...
... observed , is a departure from the mythology of the heroic cycle , in which the eagle is considered as subordinate to the falcon . In their metamorphoses the gods are VOL . CCLIII . NO . 1819 . F always represented as assuming the shape ...
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... observe that all the observations of the learned Anglo - American are the daughters of levity and error ; that he is mistaken about a common phrase in Spanish , and that he under- stands nothing at all of the matter in dispute ; we must ...
... observe that all the observations of the learned Anglo - American are the daughters of levity and error ; that he is mistaken about a common phrase in Spanish , and that he under- stands nothing at all of the matter in dispute ; we must ...
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Page 307 - ART thou the bird whom Man loves best, The pious bird with the scarlet breast, Our little English Robin ; The bird that comes about our doors When Autumn winds are sobbing...
Page 571 - That fill the haunted chambers of the Night, Like some old poet's rhymes. From the cool cisterns of the midnight air, My spirit drank repose; The fountain of perpetual peace flows there, — From those deep cisterns flows.
Page 581 - All things had put their evil nature off: I cannot tell my joy, when o'er a lake Upon a drooping bough with nightshade twined, I saw two azure halcyons clinging downward And thinning one bright bunch of amber berries...
Page 676 - ACT V. SCENE I.— Mantua. A Street. Enter ROMEO. Rom. If I may trust the flattering eye of sleep, My dreams presage some joyful news at hand : My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne; And, all this day, an unaccustom'd spirit Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.
Page 672 - As, supperless to bed they must retire, And couch supine their beauties, lily white; Nor look behind, nor sideways, but require Of Heaven with upward eyes for all that they desire.
Page 589 - ... heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: "Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
Page 215 - So that if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which as ships pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other?
Page 595 - ... in their choice of words. The writer wonders what the coachman or the hunter values in riding, in horses and dogs. It is not superficial qualities. When you talk with him he holds these at as slight a rate as you. His worship is sympathetic ; he has no definitions, but he is commanded in nature by the living power which he feels to be there present. No imitation or playing of these things would content him ; he loves the earnest of the north wind, of rain, of stone and wood and iron.
Page 592 - I could not possibly give you one of the "arguments " you cruelly hint at, on which any doctrine of mine stands ; for I do not know what arguments are in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think ; but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of mortal men.
Page 592 - So that, in the present droll posture of my affairs, when I see myself suddenly raised into the importance of a heretic, I am very uneasy when I advert to the supposed duties of such a personage, who is to make good his thesis against all comers. "I certainly shall do no such thing. I shall read what you and other good men write, as I have always done, — glad when you speak my thoughts, and skipping the page that has nothing for me. I shall go on, just as before, seeing whatever I can, and telling...