The North British review1854 |
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Strana 22
... least conscious forms of life , upon shell - fish , corals , sponges . Why , then , should not the seas and continents of other planets be occupied at present with a life no higher than this , OR WITH NO The intelligent part of creation ...
... least conscious forms of life , upon shell - fish , corals , sponges . Why , then , should not the seas and continents of other planets be occupied at present with a life no higher than this , OR WITH NO The intelligent part of creation ...
Strana 34
... least of these globes , which has for millions of years been in possession of animal , if not of intellectual life , and that obviously with the design of preparing it for man , —we who must be guided by our knowledge , however limited ...
... least of these globes , which has for millions of years been in possession of animal , if not of intellectual life , and that obviously with the design of preparing it for man , —we who must be guided by our knowledge , however limited ...
Strana 50
... least suspecting , that , as compared with our hurried and turmoiling existence , our neighbours have chosen the better part . Look at Norway , for example , which has attained , as nearly as possible , to that " sta- tionary state ...
... least suspecting , that , as compared with our hurried and turmoiling existence , our neighbours have chosen the better part . Look at Norway , for example , which has attained , as nearly as possible , to that " sta- tionary state ...
Strana 53
... least owes its origin and present perfection to per- petual endeavour . But we cannot permit ourselves to regard the struggle to be rich as worthy of admiration for itself . We cannot bring ourselves to regard the gallant and ...
... least owes its origin and present perfection to per- petual endeavour . But we cannot permit ourselves to regard the struggle to be rich as worthy of admiration for itself . We cannot bring ourselves to regard the gallant and ...
Strana 58
... least have every man be content with the full goblet , without seeking to dissolve within it the needless and untasted pearl . We wish to see the middle and upper life of England less a scene of bustle , of effort , and of struggle ...
... least have every man be content with the full goblet , without seeking to dissolve within it the needless and untasted pearl . We wish to see the middle and upper life of England less a scene of bustle , of effort , and of struggle ...
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Strana 52 - I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human kind, or anything but the disagreeable symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress.
Strana 483 - With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone ; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
Strana 52 - I cannot, therefore, regard the stationary state of capital and wealth with the unaffected aversion so generally manifested towards it by political economists of the old school. I am inclined to believe that it would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition.
Strana 477 - Far off ; — anon her mate comes winging back From hunting, and a great way off descries His huddling young left sole ; at that, he checks His pinion, and with short uneasy sweeps Circles above his...
Strana 477 - Brimming, and bright, and large; then sands begin To hem his watery march, and dam his streams, And split his currents; that for many a league The shorn and parcell'd Oxus strains along Through beds of sand and matted rushy isles...
Strana 483 - WE cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides ; The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides.
Strana 179 - their bluest veins to kiss' — the shadow, as it steals back from them, revealing line after line of azure undulation, as a receding tide leaves the waved sand; their capitals rich with interwoven tracery, rooted knots of herbage, and drifting leaves of acanthus and vine, and mystical signs, all beginning and ending in the Cross; and above them in the broad archivolts, a continuous chain of language and of...
Strana 184 - I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.
Strana 146 - The education of the child must accord both in mode and arrangement with the education of mankind, considered historically.
Strana 460 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.