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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... suffer a disturbance as applied under hypoth . B , to different depths in space , or under hypoth . A , to different arrangements of structure in the star . But thirdly , it is certain , that neither A nor B is the abiding law : and ...
... suffer a disturbance as applied under hypoth . B , to different depths in space , or under hypoth . A , to different arrangements of structure in the star . But thirdly , it is certain , that neither A nor B is the abiding law : and ...
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... suffering life , and its association with the founder of Christianity in one great triumphal solemnity . The very man who brutally abuses it , and feels a hard- hearted contempt for its misery and its submission , has a semi - conscious ...
... suffering life , and its association with the founder of Christianity in one great triumphal solemnity . The very man who brutally abuses it , and feels a hard- hearted contempt for its misery and its submission , has a semi - conscious ...
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... suffering - he pushed her gently backwards to the tripod on which , in her professional character , she was to seat herself . Upon this , in the hurry and excitement of the moment , the priestess exclaimed , Ω παι , ανικητος ει O son ...
... suffering - he pushed her gently backwards to the tripod on which , in her professional character , she was to seat herself . Upon this , in the hurry and excitement of the moment , the priestess exclaimed , Ω παι , ανικητος ει O son ...
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... suffering and horror , and Nostradamus pursued the whole with ominous allusions . Charles IX . , though the authorizer of the Bartholomew massa- cre , was the least guilty of his party , and the only one who manifested a dreadful ...
... suffering and horror , and Nostradamus pursued the whole with ominous allusions . Charles IX . , though the authorizer of the Bartholomew massa- cre , was the least guilty of his party , and the only one who manifested a dreadful ...
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... suffer amongst the multitudes whom such a solemnity had called up from the coun- try , it was resolved to robe the King in white velvet . But this , as it afterwards occurred , was the color in which victims were arrayed . And thus , it ...
... suffer amongst the multitudes whom such a solemnity had called up from the coun- try , it was resolved to robe the King in white velvet . But this , as it afterwards occurred , was the color in which victims were arrayed . And thus , it ...
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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.