The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volumen 5Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1835 |
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... mind ; for who can avert his glance from the future ? Who can ' excusably decline the considera- tion of that vast duration , which maketh pyramids pillars of snow , and all that's past , a monument ? ' But there is little in these ...
... mind ; for who can avert his glance from the future ? Who can ' excusably decline the considera- tion of that vast duration , which maketh pyramids pillars of snow , and all that's past , a monument ? ' But there is little in these ...
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... mind . In seeing many around us yield to the common lot , we grow familiar with the truth , that this is not our continual abiding city ; that our days only become considerable , like petty sums , by minute accumulations , where ...
... mind . In seeing many around us yield to the common lot , we grow familiar with the truth , that this is not our continual abiding city ; that our days only become considerable , like petty sums , by minute accumulations , where ...
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... mind at ease on that point , for I have no more dodge about me than the main - mast . ' At this instant , a reefer reported all ready for weighing anchor . " Call all hands up anchor , then , ' said he . ' Garnet , will you take the ...
... mind at ease on that point , for I have no more dodge about me than the main - mast . ' At this instant , a reefer reported all ready for weighing anchor . " Call all hands up anchor , then , ' said he . ' Garnet , will you take the ...
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... mind the properties in- herent in their several habitations ; and as these make up the visible world , there was no quality or power in earth or air , in water or in fire , - no effect of combination , -no principle in natural science ...
... mind the properties in- herent in their several habitations ; and as these make up the visible world , there was no quality or power in earth or air , in water or in fire , - no effect of combination , -no principle in natural science ...
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... mind , I came to the city to continue the study . I pressed forward in my career with unabated ardor . In the course of my researches on the subject of gases , I encountered some histories of Eronauts . They acted upon my imagination as ...
... mind , I came to the city to continue the study . I pressed forward in my career with unabated ardor . In the course of my researches on the subject of gases , I encountered some histories of Eronauts . They acted upon my imagination as ...
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Página 352 - ... there is something inexpressibly lonely in the solitude of a prairie. The loneliness of a forest seems nothing to it. There the view is shut in by trees, and the imagination is left free to picture some livelier scene beyond. But here we have an immense extent of landscape without a sign of human existence. We have the consciousness of being far, far beyond the bounds of human habitation ; we feel as if moving in the midst of a desert world.
Página 440 - It is a pistol let off at the ear ; not a feather to tickle the intellect. It is an antic which does not stand upon manners, but comes bounding into the presence, and does not show the less comic for being dragged in sometimes by the head arid shoulders.
Página 4 - If we begin to die when we live, and long life be but a prolongation of death, our life is a sad composition ; we live with death, and die not in a moment. How many pulses made up the life of Methuselah were work for Archimedes : common counters sum up the life of Moses his man. Our days become considerable, like petty sums, by minute accumulations ; where numerous fractions make up but small round numbers ; and our days of a span long make not one little finger.
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Página 8 - Know, first, that heaven and earth's compacted frame, And flowing waters, and the starry flame, And both the radiant lights, one common soul Inspires and feeds, and animates the whole. This active mind, infused through all the space, Unites and mingles with the mighty mass.
Página 125 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell...
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Página 259 - Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!