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... Facts may be met by facts - reasoning by reasoning , but sarcasm and wit can be repelled neither by history nor logic . Attack and defence must be homogeneous . Cœur de Lion's ponder- ous sword could not divide the feather pillow , nor ...
... Facts may be met by facts - reasoning by reasoning , but sarcasm and wit can be repelled neither by history nor logic . Attack and defence must be homogeneous . Cœur de Lion's ponder- ous sword could not divide the feather pillow , nor ...
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... fact , that many men of science are notoriously unpoetical and prosaic ; and it is taken for granted that it is ... facts and figures , " by studying anatomy , chemistry , or any other physical science . But whilst I will not say , that ...
... fact , that many men of science are notoriously unpoetical and prosaic ; and it is taken for granted that it is ... facts and figures , " by studying anatomy , chemistry , or any other physical science . But whilst I will not say , that ...
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... fact . Over the political de- partment of the journal he is not to have any control . Se- veral writers of the highest rank in the literary world , are , if reports may be credited , engaged as contributors of lead- ing articles to the ...
... fact . Over the political de- partment of the journal he is not to have any control . Se- veral writers of the highest rank in the literary world , are , if reports may be credited , engaged as contributors of lead- ing articles to the ...
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... fact , that every day we dine on fish , or oysters , or crabs , we devour many hundred grains of phosphorus contained in those substances , and that we cannot take a glass of the purest spring water without swallowing many grains of ...
... fact , that every day we dine on fish , or oysters , or crabs , we devour many hundred grains of phosphorus contained in those substances , and that we cannot take a glass of the purest spring water without swallowing many grains of ...
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... fact character of the age , and partly as a necessary consequence of the late sudden and unsystematic diffusion of scientific information among the mass of the people . For a century at least , there had been a total neglect both of the ...
... fact character of the age , and partly as a necessary consequence of the late sudden and unsystematic diffusion of scientific information among the mass of the people . For a century at least , there had been a total neglect both of the ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 329 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Página 326 - one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
Página 85 - Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came ; And lo, Creation widened in man's view.
Página 40 - Thou hast made me, though very unworthy, a mean instrument to do them some good, and Thee service; and many of them have set too high a value upon me, though others wish, and would be glad of my death ; but, Lord, however Thou do dispose of me, continue and go on to do good for them.
Página 250 - There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Página 328 - When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Página 25 - ... would it be too bold to imagine, that all warmblooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which THE GREAT FIRST CAUSE endued with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts, attended with new propensities, directed by irritations, sensations, volitions, and associations; and thus possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity...
Página 85 - Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on...
Página 286 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast...
Página 106 - OH, when I was a tiny boy, My days and nights were full of joy, My mates were blithe and kind ! — No wonder that I sometimes sigh, And dash the teardrop from my eye, To cast a look behind ! A hoop was an eternal round Of pleasure. In those days I found A top a joyous thing ; — But now those past delights I drop, My head, alas ! is all my top, And careful thoughts the string ! My marbles — once my bag was...