The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Հատոր 139 |
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The climatic conditions were manifestly identical in both countries , and so are
the petrological , for the rocks of Charmouth and Lyme Regis in Dorsetshire
closely resemble those of Schambelen on the banks of the river Reuss in
Switzerland .
The climatic conditions were manifestly identical in both countries , and so are
the petrological , for the rocks of Charmouth and Lyme Regis in Dorsetshire
closely resemble those of Schambelen on the banks of the river Reuss in
Switzerland .
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We repose under the shadow of a huge cycad ; the morning air passes fresh and
pure across the sharp leaves . The neighbouring heights are crowned with
cycads of hard and pinnated foliage . A river rolls at our feet , whose banks are ...
We repose under the shadow of a huge cycad ; the morning air passes fresh and
pure across the sharp leaves . The neighbouring heights are crowned with
cycads of hard and pinnated foliage . A river rolls at our feet , whose banks are ...
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The cephalopods were indeed the principal and the most abundant univalves in
the Jurassic ocean ; but they were accompanied by other and very numerous
genera . Amongst those which still frequent the seas and rivers of our hot zones
we ...
The cephalopods were indeed the principal and the most abundant univalves in
the Jurassic ocean ; but they were accompanied by other and very numerous
genera . Amongst those which still frequent the seas and rivers of our hot zones
we ...
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... stream the Sernf , and the other running westward is the Linthal , similarly
named from its river the Linth , the village of Linthal being situated in a
picturesque region covered with fields and prairies . Huge calcareous mountains
form the sides ...
... stream the Sernf , and the other running westward is the Linthal , similarly
named from its river the Linth , the village of Linthal being situated in a
picturesque region covered with fields and prairies . Huge calcareous mountains
form the sides ...
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In other cases the necessary but artificial process of dividing London into blocks ,
which were defined as much as possible by the boundaries of the chief
thoroughfares ( often almost as impassable as rivers by young children ) , may
have ...
In other cases the necessary but artificial process of dividing London into blocks ,
which were defined as much as possible by the boundaries of the chief
thoroughfares ( often almost as impassable as rivers by young children ) , may
have ...
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Էջ 570 - Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful?
Էջ 111 - Suppose that all your objects in life were realized ; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?
Էջ 113 - What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind, was that they expressed, not mere outward beauty, but states of feeling, and of thought coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty.
Էջ 112 - I, for the first time, gave its proper place, among the prime necessities of human well-being, to the internal culture of the individual. I ceased to attach almost exclusive importance to the ordering of outward circumstances, and the training of the human being for speculation and for action.
Էջ 113 - ... shell the universe itself Is to the ear of faith ; and there are times, I doubt not, when to you it doth impart Authentic tidings of invisible things; Of ebb and flow, and ever-during power; And central peace, subsisting at the heart Of endless agitation. Here you stand, Adore and worship, when you know it not ; Pious beyond the intention of your thought, Devout above the meaning of your will.
Էջ 111 - I carried it with me into all companies, into all occupations. Hardly anything had power to cause me even a few minutes oblivion of it.
Էջ 570 - The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful? Thither let us tend* From off the tossing of these fiery waves, There rest, if any rest can harbour there...
Էջ 111 - It was in the autumn of 1826. I was in a dull state of nerves, such as everybody is occasionally liable to ; unsusceptible to enjoyment or pleasurable excitement ; one of those moods when what is pleasure at other times, becomes insipid or indifferent ; the state, I should think, in which converts to Methodism usually are, when smitten bv their first "conviction of sin.
Էջ 112 - The maintenance of a due balance among the faculties, now seemed to me of primary importance. The cultivation of the feelings became one of the cardinal points in my ethical and philosophical creed.