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... Nature . By Robert Hunt , Keeper of Mining Records , Museum of Practical Geology . Se- cond Edition . 1849. Pp . 478 . 2. Researches on Light : An Examination of all the Phenomena connected with the Chemical and Mole- cular changes ...
... Nature . By Robert Hunt , Keeper of Mining Records , Museum of Practical Geology . Se- cond Edition . 1849. Pp . 478 . 2. Researches on Light : An Examination of all the Phenomena connected with the Chemical and Mole- cular changes ...
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... , if Mr. Aytoun had not insisted on our believing in Mad Tom's sanity . But the utmost good nature will not con- tentedly be tied , with the author , to the tail of an exploded delusion ; and as he has meddled with great names.
... , if Mr. Aytoun had not insisted on our believing in Mad Tom's sanity . But the utmost good nature will not con- tentedly be tied , with the author , to the tail of an exploded delusion ; and as he has meddled with great names.
Pagina 17
... nature of preaching nor pray- ing , that calls this preaching ; " then continued without confusion . When ended , Claverhouse said , " Take goodnight of your wife and children ; " his wife standing by with her child in her arms , that ...
... nature of preaching nor pray- ing , that calls this preaching ; " then continued without confusion . When ended , Claverhouse said , " Take goodnight of your wife and children ; " his wife standing by with her child in her arms , that ...
Pagina 35
... nature , by indulgence to persecuted fanatics , but by an increased severity in the laws , and an aggravated cruelty in their enforcement and application . The fines for field conventicles were doubled ; and landlords were ordered to ...
... nature , by indulgence to persecuted fanatics , but by an increased severity in the laws , and an aggravated cruelty in their enforcement and application . The fines for field conventicles were doubled ; and landlords were ordered to ...
Pagina 36
... nature . The instruments of torture are yet preserved in our Antiquarian Museums , and the tales which have been handed down to us of the mode in which they were used , are so dreadful as not merely to shock our humanity , but almost to ...
... nature . The instruments of torture are yet preserved in our Antiquarian Museums , and the tales which have been handed down to us of the mode in which they were used , are so dreadful as not merely to shock our humanity , but almost to ...
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Pagina 175 - ... teeth: and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Pagina 175 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Pagina 479 - Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise : which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Pagina 501 - twas pastime to be bound Within the Sonnet's scanty plot of ground; Pleased if some Souls (for such there needs must be) Who have felt the weight of too much liberty, Should find brief solace there, as I have found.
Pagina 176 - I had), and been counted happy to be born in such a place of philosophic freedom, as they supposed England was, while themselves did nothing but bemoan the servile condition into which learning amongst them was brought ; that this was it which had damped the glory of Italian wits ; that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian.
Pagina 119 - Ye stars ! which are the poetry of heaven, If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires, — 'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, And claim a kindred with you ; for ye are A beauty, and a mystery, and create G In us such love and reverence from afar, That fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star.
Pagina 493 - All shod with steel, We hissed along the polished ice in games Confederate, imitative of the chase" And woodland pleasures, - the resounding horn, The pack loud chiming, and the hunted hare.
Pagina 500 - Then up I rose, And dragged to earth, both branch and bough with crash And merciless ravage, and the shady nook Of hazels, and the green and mossy bower, Deformed and sullied, patiently gave up Their quiet being...
Pagina 550 - 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; And we shall sit at endless feast, Enjoying each the other's good.
Pagina 175 - There must be licensing dancers, that no gesture, motion or deportment be taught our youth but what by their allowance shall be thought honest; for such Plato was provided of.