The North British review1854 |
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Strana 19
... periods of time , and that during the period required for each formation , the animals which dis- tinguish it have occupied the earth and ocean , continued their species , and perished by death or by some great catastrophe . As no ...
... periods of time , and that during the period required for each formation , the animals which dis- tinguish it have occupied the earth and ocean , continued their species , and perished by death or by some great catastrophe . As no ...
Strana 20
... period into four periods of time , and he divides the length of infinite space into four lengths corresponding with ( but obviously having no relation whatever to them ) the four periods We may mention , merely as a curious fact , that ...
... period into four periods of time , and he divides the length of infinite space into four lengths corresponding with ( but obviously having no relation whatever to them ) the four periods We may mention , merely as a curious fact , that ...
Strana 21
... period of geologists which preceded that . 3. " The Secondary period , which was anterior to that . 4. " The Primary period , which pre- ceded the Secondary . " SPACE . 1. " The magnitude + of the Earth . 2. " The magnitude of the Solar ...
... period of geologists which preceded that . 3. " The Secondary period , which was anterior to that . 4. " The Primary period , which pre- ceded the Secondary . " SPACE . 1. " The magnitude + of the Earth . 2. " The magnitude of the Solar ...
Strana 27
... period - and of what use was the whole arrangement ? These , may we not retort , are the fragments of strata , O man , which , though seen only in patches , surround the whole globe - these formations were each the work of a million of ...
... period - and of what use was the whole arrangement ? These , may we not retort , are the fragments of strata , O man , which , though seen only in patches , surround the whole globe - these formations were each the work of a million of ...
Strana 62
... period fixed for military service , ) " no man may marry without permission , and that permission is only granted on proving that he and his wife have between them sufficient to establish themselves and maintain a family ; -say from 800 ...
... period fixed for military service , ) " no man may marry without permission , and that permission is only granted on proving that he and his wife have between them sufficient to establish themselves and maintain a family ; -say from 800 ...
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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.