The North British review1854 |
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Strana 1
... truth , nor hope ceased to gild it with its auroral hue , yet what that future was to be in its physical relations , -in what region of space it was to be spent , what duties were to characterize it , -and what in- tellectual and ...
... truth , nor hope ceased to gild it with its auroral hue , yet what that future was to be in its physical relations , -in what region of space it was to be spent , what duties were to characterize it , -and what in- tellectual and ...
Strana 2
... truth of the Copernican system was demonstrated , and six pri- mary and many secondary planets or moons took their ordained places in the heavens , the evidence for a plurality of worlds be- came irresistible , and minds of all degrees ...
... truth of the Copernican system was demonstrated , and six pri- mary and many secondary planets or moons took their ordained places in the heavens , the evidence for a plurality of worlds be- came irresistible , and minds of all degrees ...
Strana 8
... truth as a positive argument for a plurality of worlds ; but it displays in the most striking manner the absurdity of the opinion , that machinery so vast is to remain in action during cycles so long , and that an ephemeral race like ...
... truth as a positive argument for a plurality of worlds ; but it displays in the most striking manner the absurdity of the opinion , that machinery so vast is to remain in action during cycles so long , and that an ephemeral race like ...
Strana 14
... truths of natural religion " were ever exposed to dan- ger by the discoveries of the telescope , or that astronomical ... truth which they inculcate . We see it upon what- ever object our eye - balls converge , -we feel it at the tips of ...
... truths of natural religion " were ever exposed to dan- ger by the discoveries of the telescope , or that astronomical ... truth which they inculcate . We see it upon what- ever object our eye - balls converge , -we feel it at the tips of ...
Strana 15
... truth , are the deductions of reason , and , however true and de- monstrable , they exercise little influence over ... truths that there are " new worlds close to us , " that there is " a world in every drop of water , " - and that ...
... truth , are the deductions of reason , and , however true and de- monstrable , they exercise little influence over ... truths that there are " new worlds close to us , " that there is " a world in every drop of water , " - and that ...
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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.