Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 28; Volume 91John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1878 |
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... speak , and speak eloquently , about duty , choice , right , wrong , virtue , vice , temptation , resistance , determination , and the like ; all of which , on the automatic theory , are simply unmeaning and ridiculous ex- pressions for ...
... speak , and speak eloquently , about duty , choice , right , wrong , virtue , vice , temptation , resistance , determination , and the like ; all of which , on the automatic theory , are simply unmeaning and ridiculous ex- pressions for ...
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... speak , after they began to consolidate , slowly fell in consequence of the gradual cooling and therefore les- sening of the volume of the interior liquid . It is thus to what geologists call " tangential pressure " that the ori- gin of ...
... speak , after they began to consolidate , slowly fell in consequence of the gradual cooling and therefore les- sening of the volume of the interior liquid . It is thus to what geologists call " tangential pressure " that the ori- gin of ...
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... speak , carefully select- ed from among them . Here of course our methods of inquiry are totally different . Here experiment is impossible . The crucible , the balance fail us ; we are driven from experiment to observation . But still ...
... speak , carefully select- ed from among them . Here of course our methods of inquiry are totally different . Here experiment is impossible . The crucible , the balance fail us ; we are driven from experiment to observation . But still ...
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... speak - even to have cor- respondence with her . It , was some- thing that he could send her a parcel of otter skins . He But all the same Mr. Ogilvie was in some measure a friend of hers . knew her he had spoken to her - no doubt when ...
... speak - even to have cor- respondence with her . It , was some- thing that he could send her a parcel of otter skins . He But all the same Mr. Ogilvie was in some measure a friend of hers . knew her he had spoken to her - no doubt when ...
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... speak again . " One night , it is true , " said he— “ it was the last night of my being in Lon- don - I asked a flower from her . She gave it to me . She was laughing at the time . That was all . ' The sunset had gone away , and the ...
... speak again . " One night , it is true , " said he— “ it was the last night of my being in Lon- don - I asked a flower from her . She gave it to me . She was laughing at the time . That was all . ' The sunset had gone away , and the ...
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Page 316 - Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong.
Page 209 - For we are saved by hope : but hope that is seen is not hope : for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Page 53 - The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast — a serpent armed With mortal sting.
Page 406 - So live, that when thy summons comes, to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon; but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 538 - So, some tempestuous morn in early June, When the year's primal burst of bloom is o'er, Before the roses and the longest day — When garden-walks and all the grassy floor With blossoms red and white of fallen May And chestnut flowers are strewn — So have I heard the cuckoo's parting cry, From the wet field, through the vext garden-trees, Come with the volleying rain and tossing breeze: The bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I!
Page 537 - He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear; And struck his finger on the place, And said: Thou ailest here, and here!
Page 38 - The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honors, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth.
Page 128 - States, or any State, Territory, district, or municipal corporation, shall be appropriated to, or made or used for, the support of any school, educational, or other institution under the control of any religious or anti-religious sect, organization, or denomination, or wherein the particular creed or tenets of any religious or anti-religious sect, organization, or denomination shall be taught. And no such particular creed or tenets shall be read or taught in any school or institution...
Page 306 - My eyes are dim with childish tears. My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay : And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.
Page 122 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.