Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers: System of the heavens as revealed by Lord Rosse's telescopes. Modern superstition. Coleridge and opium-eating. Temperance movement. On war. The last days of Immanuel KantTicknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853 |
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... Roman Empire , finished her Crusades , and finished her French Revolution , virtu- ally amounts to little or nothing ; indicates no higher proportion to the total scale upon which she has to run , than the few tickings of a watch by ...
... Roman Empire , finished her Crusades , and finished her French Revolution , virtu- ally amounts to little or nothing ; indicates no higher proportion to the total scale upon which she has to run , than the few tickings of a watch by ...
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... Roman colosseum , - that is to say nothing . It is to undertake the measurement of the tropics with the pocket - tape of an upholsterer . Columbus , when he introduced the Old World to the New , after all that can be said in his praise ...
... Roman colosseum , - that is to say nothing . It is to undertake the measurement of the tropics with the pocket - tape of an upholsterer . Columbus , when he introduced the Old World to the New , after all that can be said in his praise ...
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... Romans to Beneventum , ( or Welcome . ) Epi- damnum again , the Grecian Calais , corresponding to the Roman Dover of Brundusium , was a name that would have startled the stoutest - hearted Roman from his propriety . ' Had he suffered ...
... Romans to Beneventum , ( or Welcome . ) Epi- damnum again , the Grecian Calais , corresponding to the Roman Dover of Brundusium , was a name that would have startled the stoutest - hearted Roman from his propriety . ' Had he suffered ...
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... Roman centurion might have turned his name to the same account , had he possessed the great Dictator's presence of mind ; for he , when landing in Africa , having happened to stumble an omen of the worst character , in Roman estimation ...
... Roman centurion might have turned his name to the same account , had he possessed the great Dictator's presence of mind ; for he , when landing in Africa , having happened to stumble an omen of the worst character , in Roman estimation ...
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... Roman emperor applies , that to miss . under such conditions implied an original genius for stupidity , and to hit was no trial of the case . After all , the sentimentalist had youth to plead in apology for this extravagance . He was ...
... Roman emperor applies , that to miss . under such conditions implied an original genius for stupidity , and to hit was no trial of the case . After all , the sentimentalist had youth to plead in apology for this extravagance . He was ...
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Página 145 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave. Await alike the' inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Página 184 - Those shocks of passion to prepare That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair.
Página 42 - ... insurmountable, height was swallowed up in depth unfathomable. Suddenly, as thus they rode from infinite to infinite, suddenly, as thus they tilted over abysmal worlds, a mighty cry arose that systems more mysterious, that worlds more billowy, other heights and other depths, were coming, were nearing, were at hand.
Página 151 - For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man This was my sole resource, my only plan: Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.
Página 161 - The most remarkable instance of a combined movement in society which history, perhaps, will be summoned to notice, is that which, in our day, has applied itself to the abatement of intemperance. Two vast movements are hurrying into action by velocities continually accelerated, — the great revolutionary movement from political causes, concurring with the great physical movement in...
Página 42 - Angel, I will go no farther. For the spirit of man aches with this infinity. Insufferable is the glory of God. Let me lie down in the grave from the persecutions of the infinite ; for end, I see, there is none.
Página 20 - Where armies lie encamp'd, come flying, lured With scent of living carcasses design'd For death, the following day, in bloody fight : So scented the grim feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far.
Página 40 - God called up from dreams a man into the vestibule of heaven, saying, — "Come thou hither, and see the glory of my house." And to the servants that stood around his throne he said, — "Take him, and undress him from his robes of flesh : cleanse hia vision, and put a new breath into his nostrils : only touch not with any change his human heart — the heart that weeps and trembles.
Página 40 - And to the servants that stood around his throne he said, — "Take him, and undress him from his robes of flesh : cleanse hia vision, and put a new breath into his nostrils : only touch not with any change his human heart — the heart that weeps and trembles." It was done ; and, with a mighty angel for his guide, the man stood ready for his infinite voyage ; and from the terraces of heaven, without sound or farewell, at once they wheeled away into endless space. Sometimes with the solemn flight...
Página 41 - With, in were stairs that scaled the eternities above, that descended to the eternities below : above was below, below was above, to the man stripped of gravitating body : depth was swallowed up in height insurmountable, height was swallowed up in depth unfathomable.