The Quarterly review, Volume 12Murray, 1815 |
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... labours of minute insects ; to worms , so very insignificant , as scarcely yet to have obtained a place in that ingenious and systematic arrangement of nature , under which philosophers have endeavoured to comprehend all created beings ...
... labours of minute insects ; to worms , so very insignificant , as scarcely yet to have obtained a place in that ingenious and systematic arrangement of nature , under which philosophers have endeavoured to comprehend all created beings ...
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... labours . The care taken to work perpendicularly in the early stages would mark a surprising instinct in these diminutive creatures . Their wall of coral , for the most parts in situations where the winds are con- stant , being arrived ...
... labours . The care taken to work perpendicularly in the early stages would mark a surprising instinct in these diminutive creatures . Their wall of coral , for the most parts in situations where the winds are con- stant , being arrived ...
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... labours have been buried , as the labours of many thousands have been before and since his time , in the mouldy archives of a jealous or selfish government- whether Portugueze or Dutch must be matter of conjecture , though the latter is ...
... labours have been buried , as the labours of many thousands have been before and since his time , in the mouldy archives of a jealous or selfish government- whether Portugueze or Dutch must be matter of conjecture , though the latter is ...
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... labour with great unwillingness . The earth had hitherto yielded them little or nothing ; and their few cattle , consisting of two bulls and five cows , by the negligence of the keeper , had strayed into the woods and , after a ...
... labour with great unwillingness . The earth had hitherto yielded them little or nothing ; and their few cattle , consisting of two bulls and five cows , by the negligence of the keeper , had strayed into the woods and , after a ...
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... labour ; yet a second time they set it on fire . They likewise burnt down the church , which they had also to rebuild ; and set fire to the grain which was in- tended to feed them . Many of them betook themselves in bodies to small ...
... labour ; yet a second time they set it on fire . They likewise burnt down the church , which they had also to rebuild ; and set fire to the grain which was in- tended to feed them . Many of them betook themselves in bodies to small ...
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Page 73 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peer?
Page 509 - Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 87 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; ' The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Page 87 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night! O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head.
Page 103 - That steal upon the meditative mind, And grow with thought. Beside yon spring I stood, And eyed its waters till we seemed to feel One sadness, they and I. For them a bond \\ Of brotherhood is broken : time has been When, every day, the touch of human hand Dislodged the natural sleep that binds them up In mortal stillness ; and they ministered To human comfort.
Page 102 - The thunder's greeting. Nor have nature's laws Left them ungifted with a power to yield Music of finer tone ; a harmony, So do I call it, though it be the hand Of silence, though there be no voice ; — the clouds, The mist, the shadows, light of golden suns, Motions of moonlight, all come thither — touch, And have an answer — thither come, and shape A language not unwelcome to sick hearts And idle spirits...
Page 105 - Their leafy umbrage, turns the dusky veil Into a substance glorious as her own, Yea with her own incorporated, by power Capacious and serene ; like power abides In Man's celestial Spirit ; Virtue thus Sets forth and magnifies herself; thus feeds A calm, a beautiful, and silent fire, From the incumbrances of mortal life, From error, disappointment, — nay from guilt ; And sometimes, so relenting Justice wills, From palpable oppressions of Despair.
Page 191 - Hitherto shalt thou come and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.
Page 103 - Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear of Faith; and there are times, I doubt not, when to you it doth impart Authentic tidings of invisible things; Of ebb and flow, and ever-during power; And central peace, subsisting at the heart Of endless agitation.