Miscellanies, Political and LiteraryMacmillan and Company, 1878 - 315 pagina's |
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Pagina 13
... Sir John Lubbock and I im- mediately used our freedom by going on shore to call on Dr. Gaillardot , a French physician and man of science , who has given special attention to the Pre- historic Antiquities and the botany of Egypt ...
... Sir John Lubbock and I im- mediately used our freedom by going on shore to call on Dr. Gaillardot , a French physician and man of science , who has given special attention to the Pre- historic Antiquities and the botany of Egypt ...
Pagina 20
... Sir John Lubbock and myself , penetrated into the Second Pyramid , that of Cephrenes , which is comparatively rarely visited , although it is in no way more difficult to penetrate than the other . In the third place , there are now ...
... Sir John Lubbock and myself , penetrated into the Second Pyramid , that of Cephrenes , which is comparatively rarely visited , although it is in no way more difficult to penetrate than the other . In the third place , there are now ...
Pagina 33
Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff. great winds and waves which he does not tempt . His ideal is a happy family ... Sir John Lubbock and I climbed the rocks above the caves , and stood on the edge of the Eastern Desert , which D ...
Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff. great winds and waves which he does not tempt . His ideal is a happy family ... Sir John Lubbock and I climbed the rocks above the caves , and stood on the edge of the Eastern Desert , which D ...
Pagina 52
... Sir John Lubbock and I climbed the Libyan range , which rises directly behind the town , to see some of the tombs with which it is honeycombed , and to look - unsuccessfully as it turned out for flint implements . The view from these ...
... Sir John Lubbock and I climbed the Libyan range , which rises directly behind the town , to see some of the tombs with which it is honeycombed , and to look - unsuccessfully as it turned out for flint implements . The view from these ...
Pagina 72
... Sir John Lubbock are met by a body of masters who , with some most honourable exceptions , fight for worn- out methods and subjects , with a determination which would be admirable if it were not absurd - I seem to see a far greater ...
... Sir John Lubbock are met by a body of masters who , with some most honourable exceptions , fight for worn- out methods and subjects , with a determination which would be admirable if it were not absurd - I seem to see a far greater ...
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Pagina 37 - While all melts under our feet, we may well grasp at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend.
Pagina 145 - And those who husbanded the Golden grain, And those who flung it to the winds like Rain, Alike to no such aureate Earth are turn'd As, buried once, Men want dug up again.
Pagina 243 - I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib : but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Pagina 37 - Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses? How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy? To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
Pagina 2 - TRANSCAUCASIA AND ARARAT: being Notes of a Vacation Tour in the Autumn of 1876. With an Illustration and Map. Third Edition. Crown 8vo.
Pagina 25 - MEMOIR OF GEORGE WILSON, MD, FRSE, Regius Professor of Technology in the University of Edinburgh. By his SISTER. New Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s. "An exquisite and touching portrait of a rare and beautiful spirit.
Pagina 48 - I met a traveller from an antique land Who said : Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert.
Pagina 310 - ... if we do not permit, our members to act upon a very enlarged view of things ; we shall at length infallibly degrade our national representation into a confused and scuffling bustle of local agency. When the popular member is narrowed in his ideas, and rendered timid in his proceedings, the service of the crown will be the sole nursery of statesmen.
Pagina 35 - HISTORICAL OUTLINES OF ENGLISH ACCIDENCE, comprising Chapters on the History and Development of the Language, and on Word-formation.