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... nature , and survey the infinity of regions of life which the micro- scope discloses , and if we consider what other breathing worlds lie far beyond even its reach , we may then comprehend the variety of intellectual life with which our ...
... nature , and survey the infinity of regions of life which the micro- scope discloses , and if we consider what other breathing worlds lie far beyond even its reach , we may then comprehend the variety of intellectual life with which our ...
Strana 13
... nature , which can neither suffer nor die , and which in our planet , once only , clothed itself in humanity ... natural re- ligion , to which both Dr. Chalmers and our Non - Pluralist Phi- losopher have given very undue importance . For ...
... nature , which can neither suffer nor die , and which in our planet , once only , clothed itself in humanity ... natural re- ligion , to which both Dr. Chalmers and our Non - Pluralist Phi- losopher have given very undue importance . For ...
Strana 18
... nature and place is unique and incapable of repetition in the scheme of the universe ! " Into these speculations our limits will not permit us to follow our author . His assertions and conclusions , indeed , may be all admitted without ...
... nature and place is unique and incapable of repetition in the scheme of the universe ! " Into these speculations our limits will not permit us to follow our author . His assertions and conclusions , indeed , may be all admitted without ...
Strana 26
... nature stars of the first magnitude , and that such stars shall resemble our sun , are surely very bold structures of assumption to build on such a basis . Some nebulæ are resolvable ; are resolvable into distinct points ; certainly a ...
... nature stars of the first magnitude , and that such stars shall resemble our sun , are surely very bold structures of assumption to build on such a basis . Some nebulæ are resolvable ; are resolvable into distinct points ; certainly a ...
Strana 30
... nature . " He then proceeds to shew that the stars are not like the sun , but by statements so little precise and so difficult to meet by direct argument , that we may reply to them in the most convincing manner by shewing that the ...
... nature . " He then proceeds to shew that the stars are not like the sun , but by statements so little precise and so difficult to meet by direct argument , that we may reply to them in the most convincing manner by shewing that the ...
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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.