Proceedings of the Literary & Philosophical Society of Liverpool, Հատոր 22The Society, 1868 |
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... human history wherein the achieve- ments of mankind in every department of human effort burn with heroic glow , and are productive of the most momentous revolutions . In this illustrious age , the European world combined in one grand ...
... human history wherein the achieve- ments of mankind in every department of human effort burn with heroic glow , and are productive of the most momentous revolutions . In this illustrious age , the European world combined in one grand ...
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... human inquiry which has made such slow advancement , or received an enlightened study at so late a stage of its history . For successive centuries , such scholars as Europe could boast placed childlike faith in the opinions of the ...
... human inquiry which has made such slow advancement , or received an enlightened study at so late a stage of its history . For successive centuries , such scholars as Europe could boast placed childlike faith in the opinions of the ...
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... human learning , the earth was fancifully divided into eighteen climates , which commenced at the Equinoctial line , and extended northward and southward to the limits at which the world was supposed to be rendered uninhabitable by the ...
... human learning , the earth was fancifully divided into eighteen climates , which commenced at the Equinoctial line , and extended northward and southward to the limits at which the world was supposed to be rendered uninhabitable by the ...
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... human knowledge , they were as yet mere children in scientific obser- vation ; they gazed at everything with all that bewildered astonishment which marks the observations of childhood , exaggerating the mysteries of things which they ...
... human knowledge , they were as yet mere children in scientific obser- vation ; they gazed at everything with all that bewildered astonishment which marks the observations of childhood , exaggerating the mysteries of things which they ...
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... human intellect was unable to penetrate through the mists which shrouded the causes of natural phenomena from men's bewildered understanding , it was not afraid to supply the lack of knowledge with the boldest and most extraordinary ...
... human intellect was unable to penetrate through the mists which shrouded the causes of natural phenomena from men's bewildered understanding , it was not afraid to supply the lack of knowledge with the boldest and most extraordinary ...
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Էջ 129 - Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an eestasy!
Էջ 126 - Of aspect more sublime — that blessed mood, In which the burden of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world Is lightened ; that serene and blessed mood In which the affections gently lead us on...
Էջ 64 - And, moved thro' life of lower phase, Result in man, be born and think, And act and love, a closer link Betwixt us and the crowning race Of those that, eye to eye, shall look On knowledge; under whose command Is Earth and Earth's, and in their hand Is Nature like an open book; No longer half-akin to brute, For all we thought and loved and did.
Էջ 128 - I seem in star and flower To feel thee some diffusive power, I do not therefore love thee less: My love involves the love before; My love is vaster passion now; Tho' mix'd with God and Nature thou, I seem to love thee more and more.
Էջ 130 - Where never creeps a cloud or moves a wind, Nor ever falls the least white star of snow, Nor ever lowest roll of thunder moans, Nor sound of human sorrow mounts to mar Their sacred everlasting calm.
Էջ 125 - That each, who seems a separate whole, Should move his rounds, and fusing all The skirts of self again, should fall Remerging in the general Soul, Is faith as vague as all unsweet: Eternal form shall still divide The eternal soul from all beside; And I shall know him when we meet...
Էջ 217 - Ac primum silici scintillam excudit Achates, Suscepitque ignem foliis, atque arida circum Nutrimenta dedit, rapuitque in fomite flammam.
Էջ 103 - Rambles of a Naturalist on the Shores and Waters of the China Sea. Being Observations in Natural History during a Voyage to China, Formosa, Borneo, Singapore, &c., during 1866—67.
Էջ 164 - The Art of Drawing on Stone, giving a full explanation of the various styles, of the different methods to be employed to ensure success, and of the modes of correcting, as well as of the several causes of failure, by C.Hull• The "competence...
Էջ 117 - Thou art, O God, the life and light Of all this wondrous world we see ; Its glow by day, its smile by night, Are but reflections caught from thee. Where'er we turn, thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are thine.