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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... word , it was when he replied to the Scottish judge Burnett , so well known to the world as Lord Monboddo . The judge , a learned man , but obstinate as a mule in certain pre- judices , had said plaintively , querulously , piteously ...
... word , it was when he replied to the Scottish judge Burnett , so well known to the world as Lord Monboddo . The judge , a learned man , but obstinate as a mule in certain pre- judices , had said plaintively , querulously , piteously ...
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... words were , ' Come , and I will show you what is beautiful ! Well , and what beside ? There is nothing beside ; oh , disappointed and therefore enraged reader ; positively this is the sum - total of what I can recall from the wreck of ...
... words were , ' Come , and I will show you what is beautiful ! Well , and what beside ? There is nothing beside ; oh , disappointed and therefore enraged reader ; positively this is the sum - total of what I can recall from the wreck of ...
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... words and ominous sentences the distracted syllables of aerial voices . Dr. Nichol is one of those who pass to and fro between these classes ; and has the rare function of keeping open their vital commu- nications . As a popularizing ...
... words and ominous sentences the distracted syllables of aerial voices . Dr. Nichol is one of those who pass to and fro between these classes ; and has the rare function of keeping open their vital commu- nications . As a popularizing ...
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... word of homage to this grandeur by recalling from a fading remembrance of twenty - five years back a short bravura of John Paul Richter . I call it a bravura , as being inten- tionally a passage of display and elaborate execution ; and ...
... word of homage to this grandeur by recalling from a fading remembrance of twenty - five years back a short bravura of John Paul Richter . I call it a bravura , as being inten- tionally a passage of display and elaborate execution ; and ...
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... word , bear scripturally [ either in Daniel or in Saint John ] any sense known to Grecian ears ? Do the seventy weeks of the prophet mean weeks in the sense of human calendars ? Already the Psalms , ( xc . ) already St. Peter , ( 2d ...
... word , bear scripturally [ either in Daniel or in Saint John ] any sense known to Grecian ears ? Do the seventy weeks of the prophet mean weeks in the sense of human calendars ? Already the Psalms , ( xc . ) already St. Peter , ( 2d ...
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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.