Essays in History and ArtW. Blackwood and sons, 1862 - 526 páginas |
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... Sound , and indeed hardly worthy of our regard at all . This is a great mistake , and is owing to the circumstance either that the majority of mankind are not very sensitive to any kind of beauty , or because a certain fashion of ...
... Sound , and indeed hardly worthy of our regard at all . This is a great mistake , and is owing to the circumstance either that the majority of mankind are not very sensitive to any kind of beauty , or because a certain fashion of ...
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... sound reasoning , show that Earth has a light of her own , by which it is as seemly that some orders of creatures should walk , as we , children of light and of the day , by the nobler radiance of the sun . It is known to men of science ...
... sound reasoning , show that Earth has a light of her own , by which it is as seemly that some orders of creatures should walk , as we , children of light and of the day , by the nobler radiance of the sun . It is known to men of science ...
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... Sound , which , emerging from silence as the spectral colours emerge from darkness , run through the scale of the musician , getting quicker and feebler in their vibrations , until they again become inaudible — the ear hearing sounds ...
... Sound , which , emerging from silence as the spectral colours emerge from darkness , run through the scale of the musician , getting quicker and feebler in their vibrations , until they again become inaudible — the ear hearing sounds ...
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... sounds , and ever produces a disagreeable effect upon the senses . A coloured grey or dull dingy brown is the most general result of the mixture of discordant colours ; and this is precisely the colour of mud - which by universal ...
... sounds , and ever produces a disagreeable effect upon the senses . A coloured grey or dull dingy brown is the most general result of the mixture of discordant colours ; and this is precisely the colour of mud - which by universal ...
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... Sound ; for whenever any note is pro- duced , the surrounding particles of metal or air always produce a series of complementary notes called the harmonics . Mau- pertuis long ago maintained that , after having listened to any ...
... Sound ; for whenever any note is pro- duced , the surrounding particles of metal or air always produce a series of complementary notes called the harmonics . Mau- pertuis long ago maintained that , after having listened to any ...
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Página 195 - ... a sum of not less than one lac of rupees in each year shall be set apart and applied to the revival and improvement of literature and the encouragement of the learned Natives of India, and for the introduction and promotion of a knowledge of the sciences among the inhabitants of the British Territories in India...
Página 362 - Ave Maria ! blessed be the hour ! The time, the clime, the spot, where I so oft Have felt that moment in its fullest power Sink o'er the earth so beautiful and soft, While swung the deep bell in the distant tower. Or the faint dying day-hymn stole aloft, And not a breath crept through the rosy air, And yet the forest leaves seem'd stirr'd with prayer.