The Young Gentleman's Book: Containing a Series of Choice Readings in Popular Science and Natural History,together with Retrospective Essays,conversations,literary Reminiscences,etc1834 |
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... appears to be decisive as to the solution of this ques- tion . The whole nature of bodies or objects is never elicited in any state of the progression of intellect ; and , therefore , these bodies and objects ought in every state to be ...
... appears to be decisive as to the solution of this ques- tion . The whole nature of bodies or objects is never elicited in any state of the progression of intellect ; and , therefore , these bodies and objects ought in every state to be ...
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... appears in its hundred forms . As I walked up the acclivities and gazed around me , so ravishing was earth and sky , that I laughed aloud , and felt as if I could , like the Hartz demon , tread from one moun- tain - peak to another ...
... appears in its hundred forms . As I walked up the acclivities and gazed around me , so ravishing was earth and sky , that I laughed aloud , and felt as if I could , like the Hartz demon , tread from one moun- tain - peak to another ...
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... appear , was wholly unknown to the inhabitants of the country till the year 1741 , when it was discovered by two adventurous English travellers , who explored the valley , ascended the Montanvert to the Mer de Glace , penetrating those ...
... appear , was wholly unknown to the inhabitants of the country till the year 1741 , when it was discovered by two adventurous English travellers , who explored the valley , ascended the Montanvert to the Mer de Glace , penetrating those ...
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... appears to have been of great extent and some duration , and seems to have been the cause of those immense quantities of water - worn stones , gravel , and sand which are usually called diluvian remains ; and , it is probable that this ...
... appears to have been of great extent and some duration , and seems to have been the cause of those immense quantities of water - worn stones , gravel , and sand which are usually called diluvian remains ; and , it is probable that this ...
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... appears ; The gulphy Lee his sedgy tresses rears , And sullen Mole that hides his diving flood ; And silent Darent stain'd with Danish blood . - POPE . FILLING UP OF LAKE SUPERIOR . - About a thousand rivers and streams empty themselves ...
... appears ; The gulphy Lee his sedgy tresses rears , And sullen Mole that hides his diving flood ; And silent Darent stain'd with Danish blood . - POPE . FILLING UP OF LAKE SUPERIOR . - About a thousand rivers and streams empty themselves ...
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Página 306 - THOU art, O God, the life and light Of all this wondrous world we see ; Its glow by day, its smile by night, Are but reflections caught from Thee : Where'er we turn, Thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are Thine.
Página 292 - By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter ; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of GOD, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season...
Página 286 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; And when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me ; Because I delivered the poor that cried, And the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that, was ready to perish came upon me: And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Página 203 - ... the calm. Not a pastoral song has a pleasanter tune than ye speak to my heart, little wildings of June : of old ruinous castles ye tell, where I thought it delightful your beauties to find, when the magic of Nature first breathed on my mind, and your blossoms were part of her spell.
Página 441 - I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together — I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion.
Página 308 - Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid; Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Página 308 - Vainly we offer each ample oblation, Vainly with gifts would His favour secure ; Richer by far is the heart's adoration, Dearer to God are the prayers of the poor.
Página 294 - O'er ocean's dark expanse To hail the Pleiades, or catch The full moon's earliest glance, That brings into the homesick mind All we have loved and left behind. Night is the time for care : Brooding on hours misspent, To see the spectre of Despair Come to our lonely tent ; Like Brutus, midst his slumbering host...
Página 295 - And commune there alone with God. Night is the time for death ; When all around is peace, Calmly to yield the weary breath, From sin and suffering cease, Think of heaven's bliss, and give the sign To parting friends ; — such death be mine.
Página 306 - When youthful spring around us breathes, Thy spirit warms her fragrant sigh ; And every flower the summer wreathes Is born beneath that kindling eye. Where'er we turn, thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are thine.