Things to be Remembered in Daily Life ...1863 |
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Strana 12
... turning on its axis produces the alternate succession of day and night , and in this revolu- tion marks the smallest division of time by distances on its surface . If each of the 360 degrees into which the circumference of the earth is ...
... turning on its axis produces the alternate succession of day and night , and in this revolu- tion marks the smallest division of time by distances on its surface . If each of the 360 degrees into which the circumference of the earth is ...
Strana 21
... turning philosopher by the very occu- pation , provided it with mottoes more touching than tombstones . It was a pretty device of the gardener , recorded by Marvell , who , in the days of artificial gardening , made a dial out of herbs ...
... turning philosopher by the very occu- pation , provided it with mottoes more touching than tombstones . It was a pretty device of the gardener , recorded by Marvell , who , in the days of artificial gardening , made a dial out of herbs ...
Strana 28
... turned to - night . But the Hour - glass is a better measurer of time than is generally imagined . The flow of the sand from one bulb to another is perfectly equable , whatever may be the quan- tity of sand above the aperture . The ...
... turned to - night . But the Hour - glass is a better measurer of time than is generally imagined . The flow of the sand from one bulb to another is perfectly equable , whatever may be the quan- tity of sand above the aperture . The ...
Strana 29
... turned up the glass ; and if the sermon did not last till the sand was out , it was said by the con- gregation that the preacher was lazy ; but if , on the other hand , he continued much longer , they would yawn and stretch till the ...
... turned up the glass ; and if the sermon did not last till the sand was out , it was said by the con- gregation that the preacher was lazy ; but if , on the other hand , he continued much longer , they would yawn and stretch till the ...
Strana 52
... turned to serious profit , so much the better . Coming at the beginning of the day , it finds the mind tranquil , sanguine , and fresh . The time it gives is likely to be free from interruptions ; and the good effect of the study will ...
... turned to serious profit , so much the better . Coming at the beginning of the day , it finds the mind tranquil , sanguine , and fresh . The time it gives is likely to be free from interruptions ; and the good effect of the study will ...
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Strana 43 - WAKE, my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run, Shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise To pay thy morning sacrifice...
Strana 10 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Strana 4 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the, knell of my departed hours : Where are they?
Strana 7 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?
Strana 59 - Time wastes too fast : every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen ; the days and hours of it, more precious, my dear Jenny ! than the rubies about thy neck, are flying over our heads like light clouds of a windy day, never to return more — every thing presses on — whilst thou art twisting that lock, — see ! it grows grey ; and every time I kiss thy hand to bid adieu, and every absence which follows it, are preludes to that eternal separation which we are shortly to...
Strana 256 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jaeet ! Lastly, whereas this book, by the title it hath, calls itself The First Part of tlie General History of the World...
Strana 253 - But as when the sun approaches towards the gates of the morning, he first opens a little eye of heaven, and sends away the spirits of darkness, and gives light to a cock, and calls up the lark to matins, and by and by gilds the fringes of a cloud, and peeps over the eastern hills...
Strana 130 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Strana 219 - As the vine, which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rifted by...
Strana 47 - Falsely luxurious ! will not Man awake ; And, springing from the bed of sloth, enjoy The cool, the fragrant, and the silent hour, To meditation due and sacred song ? For is there aught in sleep can charm the wise ? To lie in dead oblivion, losiiig half The fleeting moments of too short a life ; Total extinction of th...