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Page 462 - ... whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 180 - Lestrade, and I shall be very much obliged to you if you will let me hear of any fresh, developments of so singular a chain of events.
Page 634 - A Catalogue of the Collection of Cambrian and Silurian Fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge, by JW SALTER, FGS With a Preface by the Rev.
Page 90 - ... that the simplest and most primitive type, under a law to which that of like-production is subordinate, gave birth to the type next above it, that this again produced the next higher, and so on to the very highest, the stages of advance being in all cases very small - namely, from one species only to another; so that the phenomenon has always been of a simple and modest character.
Page 344 - I beg to direct your attention to Africa : I know that in a few years I shall be cut off in that country, which is now open ; do not let it be shut again ! I go back to Africa to try to make an open path for commerce and Christianity ; do you carry out the work which I have begun. I LEAVE IT WITH YOU !" In a prefatory letter prefixed to the volume entitled Dr.
Page 197 - Reptiles next took the lead, and (with some almost evanescent exceptions) they nourished during the countless ages of the Secondary Period as the lords and despots of the world ; and they had an organic perfection corresponding to their exalted rank in Nature's kingdom ; for their highest orders were not merely great in strength and stature, but were anatomically raised far above any forms of the Reptile class now living in the world.
Page 345 - His frame was slightly bowed, and he wore a black velvet skull-cap, with many coats and wrappers ; but his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. He seemed to be the impersonation of an ancient University, welcoming an honoured guest. He advanced towards the great map of Africa on which Livingstone had pointed out his route, and gazed at it wistfully. "I dare not speak of its geology...
Page 346 - All this machinery has for its ostensible object the development of African trade, and the promotion of civilization, but, what I tell to none but such as you in whom I have confidence, is this : I hope it may result in an English colony in the healthy highlands of Central Africa (I have told it only to the Duke of Argyle).
Page 161 - What! Is that M. Bloch?" she cried, thunderstruck, as if so portentous a personage ought to have been endowed with an appearance which "made you realise" as soon as you saw him that you were in the presence of one of the great ones of the earth; and, like someone who has discovered that an historical character is not "up to...
Page 179 - an humble address be presented to Her Majesty, praying that Her Majesty would be graciously pleased...