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... Poujoulat V. — Letters of J. Downing , Major , Downingville Militia , Second Brigade - 371 - VI . - Principles of Geology : being an Inquiry how far the 396 former changes of the Earth's Surface are referable to causes now in operation ...
... Poujoulat V. — Letters of J. Downing , Major , Downingville Militia , Second Brigade - 371 - VI . - Principles of Geology : being an Inquiry how far the 396 former changes of the Earth's Surface are referable to causes now in operation ...
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... Poujoulat . Vols . I. to V. Paris , 1833-4 . M. MICHAUD , the well - known historian of the Crusades , had meditated a more complete and elaborate account of his travels in the East : the state of his health , and the fatal influ- ence ...
... Poujoulat . Vols . I. to V. Paris , 1833-4 . M. MICHAUD , the well - known historian of the Crusades , had meditated a more complete and elaborate account of his travels in the East : the state of his health , and the fatal influ- ence ...
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... Poujoulat , who seems to have been fully impregnated with the spirit of his master , are con- stantly starting off into the antiquarianism of the middle ages . In the Morea and in Asia Minor , they willingly abandon Leonidas and ...
... Poujoulat , who seems to have been fully impregnated with the spirit of his master , are con- stantly starting off into the antiquarianism of the middle ages . In the Morea and in Asia Minor , they willingly abandon Leonidas and ...
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... Poujoulat , to Argos and Mycena . On those vast Cyclopean monuments of anti - Hellenic civilization , they offer nothing either new or striking ; they are much more at home in the exploits and conquests of Villehar- douin and his ...
... Poujoulat , to Argos and Mycena . On those vast Cyclopean monuments of anti - Hellenic civilization , they offer nothing either new or striking ; they are much more at home in the exploits and conquests of Villehar- douin and his ...
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... Poujoulat was employed in some interesting researches , in order to trace the line of march of the different armies of the crusaders , particularly those of Frederick Barbarossa , and Louis VII . of France , through that region . We ...
... Poujoulat was employed in some interesting researches , in order to trace the line of march of the different armies of the crusaders , particularly those of Frederick Barbarossa , and Louis VII . of France , through that region . We ...
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Page 92 - To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood; to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances, which every day for perhaps forty years had rendered familiar; With sun and moon and stars throughout the year, And man and woman; 6 this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish genius from talents.
Page 173 - ... from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever. But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it ; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it : and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
Page 170 - Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord.
Page 463 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Page 148 - And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night...
Page 476 - Now them that are such we command and exhort, by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
Page 157 - What we have said of miracles, may be applied, without any variation, to prophecies; and indeed all prophecies are real miracles, and as such only can be admitted as proofs of any revelation.
Page 84 - What would'st thou have a good great man obtain? Place? titles? salary? a gilded chain? Or throne of corses which his sword hath slain ? Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends ! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man ? Three treasures, love, and light, And calm thoughts regular as infant's breath : And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.
Page 92 - Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.