The North British review1854 |
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Strana 6
... look into the world of instinct , and survey the infinitely varied forms which people the earth , the ocean , and the air ; —when we range with the naturalist's eye from the elephant to the worm - from the leviathan to the infusoria ...
... look into the world of instinct , and survey the infinitely varied forms which people the earth , the ocean , and the air ; —when we range with the naturalist's eye from the elephant to the worm - from the leviathan to the infusoria ...
Strana 16
... look after the millions of the intel- lectual races in the heavens . His mind , however , is too shallow to admit the principle on which such reasoning depends , and if the persons for whose benefit the argument from the microscope is ...
... look after the millions of the intel- lectual races in the heavens . His mind , however , is too shallow to admit the principle on which such reasoning depends , and if the persons for whose benefit the argument from the microscope is ...
Strana 22
... appear a nebula . With these views we are prepared to meet our author , unin- timidated by the grape shot of assertion , banter , and ridicule with which he advances into the field . us adopt our author's premises , and look at his.
... appear a nebula . With these views we are prepared to meet our author , unin- timidated by the grape shot of assertion , banter , and ridicule with which he advances into the field . us adopt our author's premises , and look at his.
Strana 22
us adopt our author's premises , and look at his conclusions , which are contained , not very clearly , in the following passages : - " We find that man ( the human race , from its present origin till now ) has occupied but an atom of ...
us adopt our author's premises , and look at his conclusions , which are contained , not very clearly , in the following passages : - " We find that man ( the human race , from its present origin till now ) has occupied but an atom of ...
Strana 37
... look at their bridges of ice , and palaces of ice inhabited by princes . in our icy regions , and also vegetable and animal life . in Jupiter . If not , what is the final cause of his moons ? reflection from his watery surface ? 66 that ...
... look at their bridges of ice , and palaces of ice inhabited by princes . in our icy regions , and also vegetable and animal life . in Jupiter . If not , what is the final cause of his moons ? reflection from his watery surface ? 66 that ...
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Achæan animals Antoninus Pius beautiful become believe called carboniferous character Christianity Church colour Comte Cromarty Dante Dante's doctrine E. A. Freeman earth empire England English existence expressed fact feeling fish Greece Hadrian heathen Hugh Miller human inhabitants intellectual interest Jupiter kind knowledge labour land language less light living look Lord Macedonian Marcus Aurelius matter means ment mind moral mountains Namsen nature nebula never Niebuhr Norway object observation Old Red Sandstone passage peculiar period philosophy planets poem poet political position Positivism present principles readers reason regard reign religion remarkable river rocks Roderick Murchison Roman Ruskin salmon Scandinavia scarcely Scotland Scottish seems shew Silurian species speculations stars supposed theory things thought tion Trajan true truth Union Vinet whole
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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.