The North British review1854 |
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Strana 10
... object of it is to prove on scientific grounds that our earth is the largest , the only inhabited world in the universe ! That such a work could have been written in the present day by a man of high mental attainments , and professing ...
... object of it is to prove on scientific grounds that our earth is the largest , the only inhabited world in the universe ! That such a work could have been written in the present day by a man of high mental attainments , and professing ...
Strana 11
... object of insignificance ; and measured , therefore , by his estimate of man , his idea of the grandeur of the heavens and the stars must have been of the most exalted kind . What was the precise idea of the sidereal universe which ...
... object of insignificance ; and measured , therefore , by his estimate of man , his idea of the grandeur of the heavens and the stars must have been of the most exalted kind . What was the precise idea of the sidereal universe which ...
Strana 14
... is the grand truth which they inculcate . We see it upon what- ever object our eye - balls converge , -we feel it at the tips of our Argument from the Microscope considered . 15 fingers . Every 14 Of the Plurality of Worlds .
... is the grand truth which they inculcate . We see it upon what- ever object our eye - balls converge , -we feel it at the tips of our Argument from the Microscope considered . 15 fingers . Every 14 Of the Plurality of Worlds .
Strana 17
... object is to study and develop the material laws which are in operation around them , above them , beneath them ... objects of God's care , as the wise elephant , -the illiterate biped , -the presumptuous philosopher , and the great ...
... object is to study and develop the material laws which are in operation around them , above them , beneath them ... objects of God's care , as the wise elephant , -the illiterate biped , -the presumptuous philosopher , and the great ...
Strana 22
... objects of the universe are waste , turned to no purpose ? Is work of this kind unsuited to the character of the Creator ? But here , again , we have the like waste in the occupation of the Earth . All its previous ages have been wasted ...
... objects of the universe are waste , turned to no purpose ? Is work of this kind unsuited to the character of the Creator ? But here , again , we have the like waste in the occupation of the Earth . All its previous ages have been wasted ...
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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.